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The Linux kernel user’s and administrator’s guide

The following is a collection of user-oriented documents that have beenadded to the kernel over time. There is, as yet, little overall order ororganization here — this material was not written to be a single, coherentdocument! With luck things will improve quickly over time.

General guides to kernel administration

This initial section contains overall information, including the READMEfile describing the kernel as a whole, documentation on kernel parameters,etc.

A big part of the kernel’s administrative interface is the /proc and sysfsvirtual filesystems; these documents describe how to interact with tem

Security-related documentation:

Booting the kernel

Tracking down and identifying problems

Here is a set of documents aimed at users who are trying to track downproblems and bugs in particular.

Core-kernel subsystems

These documents describe core-kernel administration interfaces that arelikely to be of interest on almost any system.

Support for non-native binary formats. Note that some of thesedocuments are ... old ...

Block-layer and filesystem administration

Device-specific guides

How to configure your hardware within your Linux system.

Workload analysis

This is the beginning of a section with information of interest toapplication developers and system integrators doing analysis of theLinux kernel for safety critical applications. Documents supportinganalysis of kernel interactions with applications, and key kernelsubsystems expectations will be found here.

Everything else

A few hard-to-categorize and generally obsolete documents.