Linux Device Driver Development.pptVIP

Linux Device Driver Development Chris Lydick Spring 2007 Class Schedule Textbook List J. Corbet, A Rubini, G Kroah-Hartman. Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Ed. Available for download online! /Kernel/LDD3/ Operating Systems 101 I’ve not had Operating Systems…but… Role of Device Drivers Mechanism vs. Policy Black Box Semi/undefined interface (device) - Well defined interface (Linux API) Operating Systems 102 Uses C Language Gets complicated very quickly (lots of macros, code) Need to have a sense of ... concurrency, race conditions interrupts, deferred work mutual exclusion kernel and user-space memories ****pointers, structures, … (lots to consider) Operating Systems 103 Textbook has provided lots of “skeletons” and demos (Wheew!) My testbed: Fedora Core 4, 2.6.11 (book requested 2.6.10) Should we start with…. Hello World? Operating Systems 104 OK, easy… So what. Before digging deeper, consider 3 types of device drivers Character Devices (stream of bytes) Block Devices (file systems) Network Interfaces (duh.) Operating Systems 105 Char devices: Scull (Simple Character Utility for Loading Localities)… testbed for Char devices. Scull0..3 : global/persistent memory Scullpipe0..3 : FIFO pipes demonstrate contention Scullpriv : private data for each console Operating Systems Lab Exercises Scull0 demonstration Scullpipe0 demonstration Scullpriv demonstration Short (Temperature Sensor) Shortprint demonstration Operating Systems… Final Other Areas of Interest: Snull (network interface skeleton) USB-Skeleton (yep.) PCI-Skeleton (ok.) Sample Disk Driver (cool.) TTY Drivers, DMA and Memory Mapping, etc. Motivation My Thesis: Supercomputing Cluster in 031 Rathbone: USB Connectivity: driver timeouts/overflows in OpenBSD Communicated with Chris Pascoe (OpenBSD Developer) Motivation Acer Labs M5632 Bridge Cable Worked fine using the standard USB 1.0 Driver Issues arose with the USB 2.0 (EHCI) driver [diff file] “Abused” the kernel profiling framework to check at runtime for kernel