Kernel Development Learning Pipeline

Lecture 08: Wednesday, 26 June 2024

Announcements

1. P0 final submission submission: due tonight

2. Take note of the style requirements in procedures

   1. Check your patches with the kernel tree's checkpatch.pl as described in our procedures and policies

3. E1 due next Tuesday

Review

1. In L07 we covered:

   1. An overview of the BPF kernel subsystem

   2. The difference between classic BPF and modern extended BPF

   3. How to interact with BPF using bpftrace

Lecture overview

1. Assembly macro example

2. Interrupts overview

3. Look at /proc/interrupts

4. Top and Bottom halves

Slides

Available here