The Linux Kernel
6.6.0-rc4
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A guide to the Kernel Development Process
Submitting patches: the essential guide to getting your code into the kernel
Code of conduct
Kernel Maintainer Handbook
All development-process docs
Core API Documentation
Driver implementer's API guide
Kernel subsystem documentation
Locking in the kernel
Linux kernel licensing rules
How to write kernel documentation
Development tools for the kernel
Kernel Testing Guide
Kernel Hacking Guides
Linux Tracing Technologies
fault-injection
Kernel Livepatching
Rust
The Linux kernel user's and administrator's guide
Linux kernel release 6.x <http://kernel.org/>
The kernel's command-line parameters
Linux allocated devices (4.x+ version)
Documentation for /proc/sys
Linux ABI description
Feature status on all architectures
Hardware vulnerabilities
Reporting issues
Reporting regressions
How to quickly build a trimmed Linux kernel
Bug hunting
Bisecting a bug
Tainted kernels
Ramoops oops/panic logger
Dynamic debug
Explaining the "No working init found." boot hang message
Documentation for Kdump - The kexec-based Crash Dumping Solution
Performance monitor support
pstore block oops/panic logger
Rules on how to access information in sysfs
Discovering Linux kernel subsystems used by a workload
ACPI Support
ATA over Ethernet (AoE)
Auxiliary Display Support
A block layer cache (bcache)
The Android binderfs Filesystem
Kernel Support for miscellaneous Binary Formats (binfmt_misc)
Block Devices
Boot Configuration
Linux Braille Console
btmrvl driver
Control Groups version 1
Control Group v2
CIFS
Introduction
Usage
TODO
Changes
Authors
Clearing WARN_ONCE
CPU load
How CPU topology info is exported via sysfs
Dell Remote BIOS Update driver (dell_rbu)
Device Mapper
EDID
The EFI Boot Stub
ext4 General Information
File system Monitoring with fanotify
NFS
gpio
Notes on the change from 16-bit UIDs to 32-bit UIDs
Hardware random number generators
Using the initial RAM disk (initrd)
I/O statistics fields
Java(tm) Binary Kernel Support for Linux v1.03
IBM's Journaled File System (JFS) for Linux
Reducing OS jitter due to per-cpu kthreads
Laptop Drivers
Parallel port LCD/Keypad Panel support
LDM - Logical Disk Manager (Dynamic Disks)
Softlockup detector and hardlockup detector (aka nmi_watchdog)
Linux Security Module Usage
RAID arrays
Media subsystem admin and user guide
Memory Management
Kernel module signing facility
Mono(tm) Binary Kernel Support for Linux
Namespaces
Numa policy hit/miss statistics
Parport
Perf events and tool security
Power Management
Linux Plug and Play Documentation
RapidIO Subsystem Guide
Reliability, Availability and Serviceability
Real Time Clock (RTC) Drivers for Linux
Linux Serial Console
Video Mode Selection Support 2.13
Syscall User Dispatch
Linux Magic System Request Key Hacks
Thermal Subsystem
USB4 and Thunderbolt
Using UFS
Unicode support
Software cursor for VGA
Video Output Switcher Control
The SGI XFS Filesystem
The kernel build system
Reporting issues
User-space tools
The Linux kernel user-space API guide
The Linux kernel firmware guide
Open Firmware and Devicetree
CPU Architectures
Unsorted Documentation
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CIFS
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Introduction
Usage
Build instructions
Installation instructions
Recommendations
Allowing User Mounts
Allowing User Unmounts
Samba Considerations
Use instructions
Restrictions
CIFS VFS Mount Options
Misc /proc/fs/cifs Flags and Debug Info
CIFS kernel module parameters
TODO
A Partial List of Missing Features
Known Bugs
Misc testing to do
Changes
Authors
Original Author
Patch Contributors
Test case and Bug Report contributors