Section 2: Understanding and Working with the Kernel

A key reason why many struggle with kernel development is a lack of understanding of its internals. Here, some essentials of kernel architecture, memory management, and scheduling are covered.

This section comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 6, Kernel Internals Essentials – Processes and Threads
• Chapter 7, Memory Management Internals – Essentials
• Chapter 8, Kernel Memory Allocation for Module Authors, Part 1
• Chapter 9, Kernel Memory Allocation for Module Authors, Part 2