Computer programmers can map out that network as a so-called “call graph ... master regulators. Linux, by contrast, has blurry boundaries. Four out of five Linux modules overlap, in contrast ...

Blacklisting modules prevents them from being loaded and used, and it is sometimes an important step in keeping a system running properly. The Linux kernel is modular — composed of modules that ...

Some form of module support has been around since Linux 1.2. However, modern kernels can be built to include support for things or support them as modules. For example, you probably don’t want ...

At the end of all these efforts we have not only learned how to write kernel modules and add new binary file formats to Linux, we have also learned to embrace the freedom of accepting the richness ...

Now that we have that out of the way, let's talk about modules. A few months ago, I was developing a system called audit trail generator for Linux. For every process on a system, I wanted to keep ...

My specialty is embedded Linux. Talking with customers ... available to the common user of the library—such as the problem with the scrolling graph, discussed below. So, before ranting at me about how ...

In our previous installment, the author introduced methods for accessing peripherals from user space in Linux. In this installment, Abbott describes kernel modules and device drivers followed by a ...

Named Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG), this is a loadable kernel module that will perform runtime integrity checking of the Linux kernel. Its purpose is to detect exploitation attempts for known ...