The kernel, however, including modules, has no such restriction. That can make debugging modules tricky because you can easily bring the system to its knees.

When you program in the kernel, there is no operating system to step in and safely stop your code from running and tell you that you have a problem. The Linux kernel is pretty nice to its own code.

Resources Rubini, Alessandro, Jonathan Corbet, and Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Device Drivers, third Ed. , O’Reilly, 2005. On the one hand, this is a very readable and thorough treatment of kernel-level ...

Our objective in this chapter is to introduce the basics of Linux device drivers. We’ll begin with the concept of installable kernel modules. Then we’ll look at the basic device driver APIs in the ...

This includes such things as whenever an inode is accessed, a module is loaded or a task is created. As of the 2.5.31 kernel, there were 88 different function pointers needed. The majority of these ...

The debate around the inclusion of Rust in Linux has seemingly ended: Linus Torvalds, the original creator and current maintainer of the open source kernel, has decided that, "unless something odd ...

The Rust for Linux project is making headway, but Linux creator still has some advice to knock it into shape. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer July 6, 2021, 5:05 a.m. PT ...

The Rust programming language gets a nod of approval from Linux creator Linus Torvalds. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer July 14, 2020, 3:49 a.m. PT ...