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.

With this second excerpt, Abbott discusses kernel modules and device drivers in Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6. In this final installment of the excerpt, Abbott continues this ...

In our previous installment, the author introduced methods for accessing peripherals from user space in Linux. In this installment, Abbott describes kernel modules and device drivers followed by a ...

This course provides an overview of System Programming for the Linux operating system, or software which is interfacing directly with the Linux Kernel and C library. The basic components of a Linux ...

This approach would allow different security models to work without modifying the main kernel code. Out of this discussion grew the Linux Security Module Project (LSM). A number of developers worked ...

The Google-backed project to make Rust a second programming language in Linux kernel development after C just took it's next big step. Key to the project is Spain-based developer Miguel Ojeda, who ...

The memory safe programming language will join C and the other traditional languages developers use to create new pieces and drivers of the ubiquitous open source kernel.

The makers of systems programming language Rust are looking at how to adapt the language for use in the Linux kernel. Josh Triplett, a former Intel engineer and a lead of the Rust language team ...