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Linux

Books, guides, whitepapers, tutorials, and documentation on various aspects of Linux operating system

Kernel development + modules

Linux Kernel Development Second Edition By Robert Love Linux kernel module programming guide (26.4.25') Message logging with printk Dynamic DMA mapping Guide Heterogeneous Memory Management VFIO - Virtual Function I/O Examining process page tables IOCTL in Linux device drivers tutorial Faster IO through io_uring dev_pci struct PCI Bus subsystem in Linux PCI Peer-to-peer DMA Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition Efficient IO with io_uring Read-copy-update mechanism Process from Kernel's point of view

Userland code

Linux system programming essentials - man7 Loading kernel modules using syscall in C (`man init_module`) Flecs (lightweight Entity Component System) sleep in C (`man sleep.3`) ANSI code description

Performance benchmarking and optimizations

pahole - analyze datastructs with ease (man pahole) Off-CPU analysis guide USE Method by Brendan Gregg Systems Performance book by Brendan Gregg

Tracing (ftrace)

ftrace subsystem - [/sys/kernel/trace] Event tracing in ftrace

eBPF - Extended Berkley Packet Filter

What's eBPF eBPF documentary eBPF Profiling: The Key to System Insights The eBPF Runtime in the Linux Kernel eBPF offensive capabilities hBPF Runtime Verification BPFtracer docs eBPF program from scratch in Rust Full-system dynamic tracing on Linux using eBPF and bpftrace BPFtrace tutorial

Disks + filesystems

Overview of Linux Virtual Filesystem MBR and GPT wikipage Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Linux filesystem structure explained - video Loop device' wiki page The new ext4 filesystem: current status and future plans On File Formats (Blog post) Fiemap ioctl and structs overview inode object overview

Compilation - tools and know-hows

LLVM Machine Code Analyzer (LLVM-MCA) intro presentation LLVM-MCA docs Most documented linker script in the world Mastering the GNU linker script

Packaging and distribution

Introduction to Debian packaging Manpage write guide Changelog writing guide

PCI Express

PCIe as a technology, it's specification, how tos, and whitepapers on how to use it to the fullest extent
PCIe introducion and exercise PCIe base specification revision 6 (16.12.21') PCI class and subclass codes (9.1.20') NVMe over PCIe specification (1.24') PCIe System Architecture (12.03') Xilinx docs for PCIe P2P DMA NVidia GPUDirect - datacenter solution SPIN: Seamless Operating System Integration of Peer-to-Peer DMA Between SSDs and GPUs FPGA to FPGA PCIe P2P DMA - AMD Forum dicussion PCILookup PCI ID repository

NVM Express

NVMe as a technology, it's specification, how tos, and whitepapers on how to use it to the fullest extent
NVMe Base Specification Rev 2 (11.3.25') NVMe Command Set Specification Rev 1.1 (5.8.24') I/O Passthru: Upstreaming a flexible and efficient I/O Path in Linux NVMe whitepaper NVMe Command Submission and Completion Mechanism NVMe tutorial Building a fast NVMe passthru Intruction to LibNVMe, lot of depricated stuff, but presentation is good Remote DMA Introduction to the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) (12.5.16') Storage Performance Development Kit - Official docs

IOMMU

Various lectures, presentations and specifications on a topic of Input/Output Memory Management Unit
RISC-V IOMMU Architecture overview Things not to do when using an IOMMU | Ilja van Sprundel & Joseph Tartaro Unix: What is the IOMMU configuration used for the Intel machines? Understanding DMA Malware IOMMU protection against I/O attacks: a vulnerability and a proof of concept | Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society AMD IOMMU Specification (2.25') A little about Passthrough, PCIe, IOMMU Groups and breaking them up Virtualization and Cloud Computing Lecture 7: I/O Virtualization Techniques I/O Virtualization Use Cases and the RISC-V IOMMU Overview - Ved Shanbhogue, Rivos Inc. List of IOMMU-supporting hardware - Wikipedia Intel IOMMU Specification (27.8.24')

CPU Architecture

Latency, Throughput, and Port Usage Information For Instructions on Recent x86 Microarchitectures Agner Fog's software optimization resources Intel FPU specification

Rust programming language and tips on software development

Some useful links
Unsafe Rust - book Standard library Rust performance book Rust SIMD book Making a multithreaded rust async runtime FireDBG (Time Travel Visual Debugger for Rust) The Power of Ten - Rules for Developing Safety Critical Code1 Tiger style How I take notes as a developer

GPU Programming

CUDA, VULCAN
Complete CUDA docs Vulcan Guide Vulcan Specification Vulkan Lecture series, TU Wien SPIR-V: The Standard IR for Parallel Compute and Graphics GPUDirect overview

GUI libraries

FLTK (Rust bindings), GTK4
FLTK-rs book Official GTK4 getting started

Advanced algorithms and data structures - FTN Novi Sad

Univeristy course presentations, on Serbian
Probabilističke strukture podataka, Hash funkcije, Bloom filter Streaming podataka, Count-min sketch, HyperLogLog, Lookup tabele Batch i mikro batch obrada podataka, Skip list, SimHash Otkaz i oporavak, Sekvencijalno i nasumčno čitanje i pisanje; Strukture zasnovane na log-u, Write Ahead Log Write Ahead Log - nastavak, Memory mapped file, Transkacije Segmentirani log, Brisanje delova loga, Izmene sa više klijenata Stabla, Merkle stabla, Merkle dokaz, Anti-entropy popravke, Serijalizacija stabla Memorijske tabele (Memtable), Eksternalizacija podešenja, Put zapisa (Write path) SSTable, Index, Summary, Struktura, Formiranje Putčitanja podataka, Keširanje, LRU, Prefix scan, Range scan, Paginacija LSM Stabla, Kompakcije, Amplifikacije, RUM pretpostavke Kompresija podataka - osnove, Ograničenje stope pristupa (Rate Limiting) Token Bucket, TTL

Non-tech

Dead Horse theory Mythical Man Month