Links tagged “kernel”

unixism.net

What the kernel's Pressure Stall Information interface reports for CPU, memory and I/O, and why its stall percentages read better than load average.

iximiuz.com

Turns a Docker container's filesystem into a bootable disk image by adding a kernel and a bootloader, then boots the result in a virtual machine.

blog.cloudflare.com

How to run Go source files directly as executable scripts on Linux, by registering a wrapper interpreter with the binfmt_misc kernel module.

kernel.org

Kernel developer notes on the Open vSwitch datapath — flow keys, wildcarded flows, UFIDs, and the rules for adding protocol support without breaking older userspace.

fabiokung.com

Why free and top report host memory inside a container, and what it would take for cgroup limits to be visible to the processes running there.

0xax.gitbooks.io

linux-insides, a book in progress on Linux kernel internals — booting, initialisation, interrupts, system calls and memory management.

sourceware.org

GPL instrumentation infrastructure that runs scripted probes inside a live Linux kernel to gather diagnostic data without recompiling or rebooting.

a.michelizza.free.fr

Tutoriel en français pour écrire un noyau x86 en C et en assembleur, du secteur de boot au multitâche, à la pagination et à Ext2, avec le noyau éducatif Pépin.