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2 The Linux kernel user's and administrator's guide
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5 The following is a collection of user-oriented documents that have been
6 added to the kernel over time. There is, as yet, little overall order or
7 organization here — this material was not written to be a single, coherent
8 document! With luck things will improve quickly over time.
10 General guides to kernel administration
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13 This initial section contains overall information, including the README
14 file describing the kernel as a whole, documentation on kernel parameters,
25 A big part of the kernel's administrative interface is the /proc and sysfs
26 virtual filesystems; these documents describe how to interact with tem
36 Security-related documentation:
57 Tracking down and identifying problems
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60 Here is a set of documents aimed at users who are trying to track down
61 problems and bugs in particular.
68 quickly-build-trimmed-linux
69 verify-bugs-and-bisect-regressions
80 kernel-per-CPU-kthreads
86 Core-kernel subsystems
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89 These documents describe core-kernel administration interfaces that are
90 likely to be of interest on almost any system.
103 syscall-user-dispatch
105 Support for non-native binary formats. Note that some of these
106 documents are ... old ...
116 Block-layer and filesystem administration
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128 filesystem-monitoring
136 Device-specific guides
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139 How to configure your hardware within your Linux system.
171 This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to
172 application developers and system integrators doing analysis of the
173 Linux kernel for safety critical applications. Documents supporting
174 analysis of kernel interactions with applications, and key kernel
175 subsystems expectations will be found here.
185 A few hard-to-categorize and generally obsolete documents.
194 .. only:: subproject and html