This training is designed for professionals and students who want to understand the working of Linux Kernel. This training will give you a good insight into different subsystems of Linux Kernel like process management, process scheduling, interrupt handling and many more.

What will you learn in this course?

• Process Management          
  • Process and thread
  • Linux Kernel process stack
  • The need for thread info structure
  • Process descriptor
  • Creation of process
  • Difference between process and thread      
• Process Scheduling
  • Linux Kernel process scheduling
  • Preemptive vs cooperative scheduling
  • Priority value and niche value
  • Different scheduling classes in Linux Kernel
  • Red black tree 
• System Calls
  • What are Syscalls
  • What is the need for Syscalls?
  • How Syscalls are implemented
• Interrupt Handling
  • Introduction to Interrupt
  • How to interrupt is handled in Linux Kernel
  • Registering interrupt handling in Linux Kernel
  • How to write an interrupt handler
• Top Halves versus Bottom Halves
  • Tasklets
  • Softirq
  • Workqueue
• Synchronization 
  • What is a race condition?
  • critical section
• Synchronization Techniques
  • Semaphore
  • Spinlock and many other synchronization methods