Jon A. Solworth

Resources for OS and VMs

• Intel Processor Manuals Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual
  • Volume 1: Basic Architecture
  • Volume 2A: Instruction Set Reference, A-M
  • Volume 2B: Instruction Set Reference, N-Z
  • Volume 3A: System Programming Guide, Part 1 (This is the primary one for kernel programming)
  • Volume 3B: System Programming Guide, Part 2
• AMD Processor Manuals
  • AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 1: Application Programming
  • AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 2: System Programming
  • AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 3: General Purpose and System Instructions
  • AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 4: 128-bit and 256 bit media instructions
  • AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 5: 64-Bit Media and x87 Floating-Point Instructions
• x86 rings and protection
• ANSI C99 Standard (with revisions)
• Intel Assembly Language overview for Kernel Programmers
• Xen Hypervisor plus Minimal OS source
• Xen debugging overview slides this debugger is included in Xen 4.0 distributions
• Xen Hypercall Interfaces
• Xen's Hypercall Interface as provided in xen/include/public/xen.h

Linux Kernel Programming

• Linux Kernel Modules: Dynamic loading of code into the kernel
• linux kernel programming resources
• Kernel initiatiation
• More kernel hacking resources
• Linux kernel mailing list (read and join in all the fights)
• Linux Kernel Internals (2.4)
• Kernel debugging resources (UML is probably better)
• Lecture notes from kernel course at UT-Austin
• Guide to locking in 2.6 (essential because of SMP and pre-emption)
• Linux Kernel Links

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