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Outline Linux Installation Linux Kernel Compilation System Call Development Kernel Modules
Part I
Linux Installation
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Kernel versus Distribution Kernel is the core of the operating system including
scheduler, memory management, file system, etc. Distribution is a full functional environment
including the kernel and a large collection of software applications.
The following slides are based on Ubuntu 12.04.4 (desktop version). Download Link:
http://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Ubuntu/ubuntu-cd/precise/ubuntu-12.04.4-desktop-amd64.iso (64-bit)
http://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Ubuntu/ubuntu-cd/precise/ubuntu-12.04.4-desktop-i386.iso (32-bit)
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Preparation (1/2) A computer An Ubuntu 12.04 DVD or image A clear head and relaxed mind Some drinks, food, or comics
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Preparation (2/2) If you want to install Linux on your hard disk,
please set at least 16GB unpartitioned space. You may want to shrink your existing disk by disk
management if there is no more unpartitioned space.
Ubuntu can coexist with Windows. Change the boot sequence to boot from CD-ROM
first.
If you want to install Linux on a virtual machine, you can use VirtualBox or VMware. VirtualBox Website: https://www.virtualbox.org/
Please refer to this website for creating a VM in VirtualBox.
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Some Useful Commands Installing packages in Ubuntu
$ apt-cache search xxxx $ sudo apt-get install xxxx
GNU Compiler Collection $ gcc -o test test.c $ ./test
Makefile $ make
Text-mode editor $ vim
SSH server and client $ ssh -p port user@hostname
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Some Useful Tools SSH server
$ sudo apt-get install ssh
SSH client for Windows PieTTY http://ntu.csie.org/~piaip/pietty/
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References 鳥哥的私房菜
http://linux.vbird.org Ubuntu 正體中文站
http://www.ubuntu-tw.org Ubuntu Homepage
http://www.ubuntu.com
Part II
Linux Kernel Compilation
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When Should We Compile Kernel? There are various situations we have to
compile the kernel. Try new kernel patches for the latest laptops. Enable/disable features built in the kernel. Develop new features. …
This slides are based on Linux 3.13.2. http://
ftp.ntu.edu.tw/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.13.2.tar.xz
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Download Source Archives Kernel Website: http://www.kernel.org
Mirror: http://ftp.ntu.edu.tw/linux/kernel/v3.x/
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Preparation Setting up build environment
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install gcc vim ssh libncurses5-dev
Getting the source archive $ cd ${HOME} $ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.X.X.tar.xz
Extracting the archive $ tar Jxvf linux-3.X.X.tar.xz $ cd linux-3.X.X
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Kernel Configuration (1/2) There are several ways to configure the
kernel. $ make config $ make menuconfig $ make xconfig
(It will need qt4-qmake and qt4-dev-tools packages.) ...
If you do not know how to configure, you can copy the old configuration file from /boot. $ cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config $ make olddefconfig $ make menuconfig
This step is optional.
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Kernel Configuration (2/2)
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Kernel Compilation The first time (about 30min ~ 1.5hr):
$ make bzImage $ make modules (It takes quite a long time.) $ sudo make modules_install $ sudo make install $ sudo mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-3.X.X 3.X.X Do this whenever you reinstall the modules.
Configure the boot loader and then reboot! Others (about 5~10min):
$ make bzImage $ sudo make install Then reboot!
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Kernel Compilation with Multiple Cores See how many cores on your machine.
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l E.g., 4.
Compile with the number of jobs (threads). $ make -j4 bzImage $ make -j4 modules ...
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Boot Loader Configuration (Optional) Ubuntu will do this for you when installing the
kernel. Adding a new entry to /boot/grub/grub.cfg
If you got a black screen after booting the new kernel Change ‘gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode’ ‘gfxmode text’
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Rebooting Do not forget to reboot every time you install
a new kernel image!
You can use ‘uname -a’ to check current system information.
Part III
System Call Development
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Preparation Find out whether the kernel is 32-bit or 64-bit
version. $ uname -p
32-bit: i386 i686 64-bit: x86_64
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Adding a System Call (1/4) Define your system calls.
Create a new file kernel/myservice.c.
Add this new attribute to kernel/Makefile. obj-y += myservice.o
#include <linux/linkage.h>#include <linux/kernel.h>
asmlinkage int sys_myservice(int arg1){ printk(“My service is invoked!\n"); return arg1 * 10;}
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Adding a System Call (2/4) Declare the prototype of your system calls.
Add the declaration to include/linux/syscalls.h. asmlinkage int sys_myservice(int arg1);
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Adding a System Call (3/4) Register a system call number (32-bit).
For Linux 3.X, it has a automatic way to generate system calls compared to the previous versions.
Add a new entry to arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl. 350 i386 myservice sys_myservice
The generated file is in arch/x86/include/generated/uapi/asm, after compilation.
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Adding a System Call (4/4) Register a system call number (64-bit).
Add a new entry to arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl. 313 common myservice sys_myservice
The generated file is in arch/x86/include/generated/uapi/asm, after compilation.
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System Call Invocation Create a test file ap.c to try your system call.
Compile & execute. $ gcc -o ap ap.c $ ./ap 10
#include <stdlib.h>#include <stdio.h>#define _GNU_SOURCE#include <unistd.h>#include <sys/syscall.h>
#define __NR_myservice 350
int main(int argc, char** argv){ printf("%d\n", syscall(__NR_myservice, atoi(argv[1]))); return 0;}
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Related APIs Access a block of data from/to user space in
the kernel. #include <linux/uaccess.h> unsigned long copy_from_user (void* to, const void __user* from, unsigned long n);
unsigned long copy_to_user (void __user* to, const void* from, unsigned long n);
Use the generic function syscall to invoke a specific system call in user space. #include <sys/syscall.h> int syscall(int number, ...);
The first argument, number, is the system call number.
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Some Useful Tools (1/2) LXR Website: http://lxr.linux.no/linux/
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Some Useful Tools (2/2) Manpages
$ sudo apt-get install manpages-dev $ man XXXX
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References Kernel Website
http://www.kernel.org LXR
http://lxr.linux.no/linux/
Part IV
Kernel Modules
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An Example of Writing a Kernel Module(1/5) Definition of the module structure
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An Example of Writing a Kernel Module(2/5) Initialization and cleanup functions
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An Example of Writing a Kernel Module(3/5) File operations
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An Example of Writing a Kernel Module(4/5) User AP
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An Example of Writing a Kernel Module(5/5) Makefile
Testing $ sudo insmod hello.ko $ dmesg $ sudo ./ap $ dmesg $ sudo rmmod hello
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Q & A