Kernel Development Learning Pipeline

L5 - 6 February 2023

Lecture Recording

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Class Notes:

• A3 demo continued
• get_task_comm src
• https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/include/linux/sched.h#L1988
• Showed “Hello World” assembly example on aarch64
• Showed C equivalent ~00:30:00
• Pop quiz:
  • Is sizeof a function or an operator?
  • What is the type of prompt? (declared static char prompt[] = “What is your name? “)
• Showed strace ~00:48:00
• Showed how to define syscall ~01:31:00