PhD Course - Linux Kernel Course

Organiser:
Philippe Bonnet

Lecturer:
Hans Holmberg, CNEX Labs

Dates of the course:
April 4th until May 9th with lectures on Wednesdays

Time:
09:00 - 12:00

Room:
4A05

Course description:
This course is an introduction to the Linux kernel and to the Linux developer community for students interested in diving into its source code, modifying it or contributing to it. The course will give an overview of the architecture and build system, cover methods and tools for developing and debugging kernel code and drill down into a couple of subsystems. The course is structured with lectures, exercises and labs.
On completion of this course, a student will be able to:
- navigate the kernel source code and describe the different subsystems
- design, implement and test kernel code
- appropriately interact with the Linux developer community

Programme:
6 x 3h lectures + 1h lab introduction/feedback

1: Introduction to the Linux Kernel, build system, configuration
2: Machine descriptions, Kernel Boot process and memory management
3: Interrupts, threads and processes
4: Debugging and tracing
5: Power management
6: Development best practices, community and upstreaming
7: Wrapup

Labs will be given in between lectures 

Readings and preparation:
20-30 pages for each lecture from the textbook: “Linux Device Drivers by McKellar et al. from O’reilly”.
Other preparation: Code reading and programming exercises.

Prerequisites:
C programming 

Exam:
Labs

Credits:
2,5 ECTS

Amount of hours the student is expected to use on the course:
Participation: 28 h
Preparation: 42h

Participants:
We expect 10 participants from ITU, DIKU and DTU

How to sign up:
Write an email to phbo@itu.dk (Philippe Bonnet)