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   5 <book id="LinuxKernelAPI">
   6  <bookinfo>
   7   <title>The Linux Kernel API</title>
   8
   9   <legalnotice>
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  31
  32    <para>
  33      For more details see the file COPYING in the source
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  38
  39 <toc></toc>
  40
  41   <chapter id="adt">
  42      <title>Data Types</title>
  43      <sect1><title>Doubly Linked Lists</title>
  44 !Iinclude/linux/list.h
  45      </sect1>
  46   </chapter>
  47
  48   <chapter id="libc">
  49      <title>Basic C Library Functions</title>
  50
  51      <para>
  52        When writing drivers, you cannot in general use routines which are
  53        from the C Library.  Some of the functions have been found generally
  54        useful and they are listed below.  The behaviour of these functions
  55        may vary slightly from those defined by ANSI, and these deviations
  56        are noted in the text.
  57      </para>
  58
  59      <sect1><title>String Conversions</title>
  60 !Ilib/vsprintf.c
  61 !Elib/vsprintf.c
  62      </sect1>
  63      <sect1><title>String Manipulation</title>
  64 <!-- All functions are exported at now
  65 X!Ilib/string.c
  66  -->
  67 !Elib/string.c
  68      </sect1>
  69      <sect1><title>Bit Operations</title>
  70 !Iarch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h
  71      </sect1>
  72   </chapter>
  73
  74   <chapter id="kernel-lib">
  75      <title>Basic Kernel Library Functions</title>
  76
  77      <para>
  78        The Linux kernel provides more basic utility functions.
  79      </para>
  80
  81      <sect1><title>Bitmap Operations</title>
  82 !Elib/bitmap.c
  83 !Ilib/bitmap.c
  84      </sect1>
  85
  86      <sect1><title>Command-line Parsing</title>
  87 !Elib/cmdline.c
  88      </sect1>
  89
  90      <sect1 id="crc"><title>CRC Functions</title>
  91 !Elib/crc7.c
  92 !Elib/crc16.c
  93 !Elib/crc-itu-t.c
  94 !Elib/crc32.c
  95 !Elib/crc-ccitt.c
  96      </sect1>
  97   </chapter>
  98
  99   <chapter id="mm">
 100      <title>Memory Management in Linux</title>
 101      <sect1><title>The Slab Cache</title>
 102 !Iinclude/linux/slab.h
 103 !Emm/slab.c
 104      </sect1>
 105      <sect1><title>User Space Memory Access</title>
 106 !Iarch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h
 107 !Earch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c
 108      </sect1>
 109      <sect1><title>More Memory Management Functions</title>
 110 !Emm/readahead.c
 111 !Emm/filemap.c
 112 !Emm/memory.c
 113 !Emm/vmalloc.c
 114 !Imm/page_alloc.c
 115 !Emm/mempool.c
 116 !Emm/dmapool.c
 117 !Emm/page-writeback.c
 118 !Emm/truncate.c
 119      </sect1>
 120   </chapter>
 121
 122
 123   <chapter id="ipc">
 124      <title>Kernel IPC facilities</title>
 125
 126      <sect1><title>IPC utilities</title>
 127 !Iipc/util.c
 128      </sect1>
 129   </chapter>
 130
 131   <chapter id="kfifo">
 132      <title>FIFO Buffer</title>
 133      <sect1><title>kfifo interface</title>
 134 !Iinclude/linux/kfifo.h
 135 !Ekernel/kfifo.c
 136      </sect1>
 137   </chapter>
 138
 139   <chapter id="relayfs">
 140      <title>relay interface support</title>
 141
 142      <para>
 143         Relay interface support
 144         is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
 145         facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
 146         user space.
 147      </para>
 148
 149      <sect1><title>relay interface</title>
 150 !Ekernel/relay.c
 151 !Ikernel/relay.c
 152      </sect1>
 153   </chapter>
 154
 155   <chapter id="modload">
 156      <title>Module Support</title>
 157      <sect1><title>Module Loading</title>
 158 !Ekernel/kmod.c
 159      </sect1>
 160      <sect1><title>Inter Module support</title>
 161         <para>
 162            Refer to the file kernel/module.c for more information.
 163         </para>
 164 <!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
 165 X!Ekernel/module.c
 166 -->
 167      </sect1>
 168   </chapter>
 169
 170   <chapter id="hardware">
 171      <title>Hardware Interfaces</title>
 172      <sect1><title>Interrupt Handling</title>
 173 !Ekernel/irq/manage.c
 174      </sect1>
 175
 176      <sect1><title>DMA Channels</title>
 177 !Ekernel/dma.c
 178      </sect1>
 179
 180      <sect1><title>Resources Management</title>
 181 !Ikernel/resource.c
 182 !Ekernel/resource.c
 183      </sect1>
 184
 185      <sect1><title>MTRR Handling</title>
 186 !Earch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
 187      </sect1>
 188
 189      <sect1><title>PCI Support Library</title>
 190 !Edrivers/pci/pci.c
 191 !Edrivers/pci/pci-driver.c
 192 !Edrivers/pci/remove.c
 193 !Edrivers/pci/pci-acpi.c
 194 !Edrivers/pci/search.c
 195 !Edrivers/pci/msi.c
 196 !Edrivers/pci/bus.c
 197 <!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
 198 X!Edrivers/pci/hotplug.c
 199 -->
 200 !Edrivers/pci/probe.c
 201 !Edrivers/pci/rom.c
 202 !Edrivers/pci/iov.c
 203      </sect1>
 204      <sect1><title>PCI Hotplug Support Library</title>
 205 !Edrivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c
 206      </sect1>
 207      <sect1><title>MCA Architecture</title>
 208         <sect2><title>MCA Device Functions</title>
 209            <para>
 210               Refer to the file arch/x86/kernel/mca_32.c for more information.
 211            </para>
 212 <!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source
 213 X!Earch/x86/kernel/mca_32.c
 214 -->
 215         </sect2>
 216         <sect2><title>MCA Bus DMA</title>
 217 !Iarch/x86/include/asm/mca_dma.h
 218         </sect2>
 219      </sect1>
 220   </chapter>
 221
 222   <chapter id="firmware">
 223      <title>Firmware Interfaces</title>
 224      <sect1><title>DMI Interfaces</title>
 225 !Edrivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
 226      </sect1>
 227      <sect1><title>EDD Interfaces</title>
 228 !Idrivers/firmware/edd.c
 229      </sect1>
 230   </chapter>
 231
 232   <chapter id="security">
 233      <title>Security Framework</title>
 234 !Isecurity/security.c
 235 !Esecurity/inode.c
 236   </chapter>
 237
 238   <chapter id="audit">
 239      <title>Audit Interfaces</title>
 240 !Ekernel/audit.c
 241 !Ikernel/auditsc.c
 242 !Ikernel/auditfilter.c
 243   </chapter>
 244
 245   <chapter id="accounting">
 246      <title>Accounting Framework</title>
 247 !Ikernel/acct.c
 248   </chapter>
 249
 250   <chapter id="blkdev">
 251      <title>Block Devices</title>
 252 !Eblock/blk-core.c
 253 !Iblock/blk-core.c
 254 !Eblock/blk-map.c
 255 !Iblock/blk-sysfs.c
 256 !Eblock/blk-settings.c
 257 !Eblock/blk-exec.c
 258 !Eblock/blk-barrier.c
 259 !Eblock/blk-tag.c
 260 !Iblock/blk-tag.c
 261 !Eblock/blk-integrity.c
 262 !Ikernel/trace/blktrace.c
 263 !Iblock/genhd.c
 264 !Eblock/genhd.c
 265   </chapter>
 266
 267   <chapter id="chrdev">
 268         <title>Char devices</title>
 269 !Efs/char_dev.c
 270   </chapter>
 271
 272   <chapter id="miscdev">
 273      <title>Miscellaneous Devices</title>
 274 !Edrivers/char/misc.c
 275   </chapter>
 276
 277   <chapter id="clk">
 278      <title>Clock Framework</title>
 279
 280      <para>
 281         The clock framework defines programming interfaces to support
 282         software management of the system clock tree.
 283         This framework is widely used with System-On-Chip (SOC) platforms
 284         to support power management and various devices which may need
 285         custom clock rates.
 286         Note that these "clocks" don't relate to timekeeping or real
 287         time clocks (RTCs), each of which have separate frameworks.
 288         These <structname>struct clk</structname> instances may be used
 289         to manage for example a 96 MHz signal that is used to shift bits
 290         into and out of peripherals or busses, or otherwise trigger
 291         synchronous state machine transitions in system hardware.
 292      </para>
 293
 294      <para>
 295         Power management is supported by explicit software clock gating:
 296         unused clocks are disabled, so the system doesn't waste power
 297         changing the state of transistors that aren't in active use.
 298         On some systems this may be backed by hardware clock gating,
 299         where clocks are gated without being disabled in software.
 300         Sections of chips that are powered but not clocked may be able
 301         to retain their last state.
 302         This low power state is often called a <emphasis>retention
 303         mode</emphasis>.
 304         This mode still incurs leakage currents, especially with finer
 305         circuit geometries, but for CMOS circuits power is mostly used
 306         by clocked state changes.
 307      </para>
 308
 309      <para>
 310         Power-aware drivers only enable their clocks when the device
 311         they manage is in active use.  Also, system sleep states often
 312         differ according to which clock domains are active:  while a
 313         "standby" state may allow wakeup from several active domains, a
 314         "mem" (suspend-to-RAM) state may require a more wholesale shutdown
 315         of clocks derived from higher speed PLLs and oscillators, limiting
 316         the number of possible wakeup event sources.  A driver's suspend
 317         method may need to be aware of system-specific clock constraints
 318         on the target sleep state.
 319      </para>
 320
 321      <para>
 322         Some platforms support programmable clock generators.  These
 323         can be used by external chips of various kinds, such as other
 324         CPUs, multimedia codecs, and devices with strict requirements
 325         for interface clocking.
 326      </para>
 327
 328 !Iinclude/linux/clk.h
 329   </chapter>
 330
 331 </book>