Kernel Recipes Courses

Case Study: Concurrent Counting - Kernel Recipes 2024

Explore fundamental concurrency issues through scalable counting on multicore systems, covering design, coding, and validation challenges.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dual Level Task Scheduling for VM Workloads - Kernel Recipes 2024

Explore dual-level task scheduling in VMs, examining semantic gaps between guest and host OS. Dive into paravirt scheduling proposals and research for optimizing multi-threaded application performance.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Hazard Pointers with Reference Counter - A New Synchronization API

Explore a new synchronization API combining hazard pointers and reference counters, leveraging their strengths for efficient object existence guarantees.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Tracking Down Sources of Kernel Errors with Retsnoop

Explore kernel error tracking with retsnoop, a BPF-based tool for efficient debugging and introspection without modifying the kernel or using printk().

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Reader Writer Semaphore Design - Kernel Recipes 2024

Explore Linux kernel's Reader Writer Semaphore design, atomic contention issues, and potential optimizations for improved scalability in container applications.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Filesystem and Memory Reclaim

Explore filesystem memory reclaim mechanisms and deadlock prevention strategies in Linux kernel development, covering existing solutions and emerging challenges in memory management.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Kworkflow - Mix and Match Kernel Recipes End-to-end

Discover how Kworkflow optimizes Linux kernel development by unifying tools, automating practices, and standardizing workflows for enhanced community collaboration.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Linux Virtualization Based Security - Hypervisor-Agnostic Kernel Protection Architecture

Discover Linux Virtualization Based Security (LVBS) - a hypervisor-agnostic architecture that strengthens kernel protection beyond built-in defenses using hypervisor-level enforcement.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Linux for Real Time Workloads - Bare Metal and KVM

Discover Linux real-time capabilities for bare metal and virtualized environments, exploring scheduling policies, PREEMPT_RT, CPU isolation, and performance benchmarks.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Observing the Memory Mills Running

Explore Linux memory management through /proc/vmstat event counters to diagnose system performance issues in low-memory conditions and understand memory reclaim processes.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Where Does My Memory Come From? - Kernel Memory Management Deep Dive

Dive into kernel memory management APIs, VMA operations, memory tracking, reclaim, migration, and the intricate mechanisms behind userland memory allocation.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

So You Want to Write a Driver in Rust?

Explore Rust's potential for driver development, tackling safety benefits, common challenges, and practical steps to start writing more secure kernel drivers.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

nolibc - A Userspace libc in the Kernel Tree

Explore nolibc, a minimal C standard library in the Linux kernel tree that enables building tiny applications with bare-metal toolchains across multiple architectures.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Tame a Panthor - GPU Driver Development for Mali GPUs

Discover how GPU drivers work by exploring Panthor/PanVK for Mali GPUs, demystifying complex driver development and DRM subsystem components that simplify modern kernel GPU driver creation.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

A Rusty Odyssey - A Timeline of Rust in the DRM Subsystem

Explore the evolution of Rust integration in Linux Kernel's DRM subsystem, covering key milestones, driver projects like Asahi and Nova, and future GPU development.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video