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"Linux Device Drivers第三版 - Linux内核开发经典书籍" 《Linux Device Drivers》第三版是一本关于Linux内核设备驱动程序开发的权威指南，它面向那些希望深入理解Linux系统内部工作并创建高效设备驱动的开发者。这本书是Linux内核开发领域的经典之作，为读者提供了丰富的知识和实践经验。在Linux操作系统中，设备驱动程序扮演着至关重要的角色，它们是操作系统与硬件设备之间的桥梁，负责管理和控制硬件资源，使得操作系统能够与硬件进行有效通信。本书涵盖了各种类型的设备驱动，包括字符设备、块设备、网络设备以及中断处理和DMA（直接存储器访问）等核心概念。书中详细讲解了如何编写和维护设备驱动程序，内容涉及： 1. 设备驱动的基本结构：介绍设备驱动的基本组成部分，如设备文件、驱动注册和注销机制。 2. 设备I/O：阐述如何通过系统调用、中断处理和DMA进行数据传输。 3. 总线和设备模型：讨论PCI、USB等总线系统以及如何在Linux设备模型中注册和管理设备。 4. 内存管理和资源分配：讲解如何在内核环境中有效地分配和释放内存，以及如何管理I/O端口和内存映射。 5. 同步和互斥：介绍信号量、自旋锁、原子操作等同步原语，以确保驱动程序的线程安全。 6. 调试技巧：提供内核调试工具和方法，帮助开发者识别和修复驱动程序中的问题。 7. 高级主题：涵盖模块化、电源管理、热插拔支持等现代Linux内核驱动程序开发中的关键特性。此外，书中还提供了许多实例代码，帮助读者更好地理解和应用理论知识。同时，它提到了与其他O'Reilly出版社出版的Linux相关书籍，如《Understanding the Linux Kernel》和《Linux in a Nutshell》，这些书籍都是深入学习Linux技术的宝贵资源。 O'Reilly出版社的网站（linux.oreilly.com）和ONLamp.com为Linux和开源技术提供了丰富的资源，包括样章、代码示例和即将举行的会议信息，为读者提供了一个全面的学习平台。Safari Bookshelf在线参考图书馆则允许订阅者搜索并查阅上千本书籍，是程序员和IT专业人士不可或缺的知识库。通过阅读《Linux Device Drivers》第三版，读者不仅可以掌握设备驱动程序开发的基本技能，还能深入了解Linux内核的工作原理，从而成为更优秀的Linux系统开发者。

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Acknowledgments

This book, of course, was not written in a vacuum; we would like to thank the many

people who have helped to make it possible.

Thanks to our editor, Andy Oram; this book is a vastly better product as a result of

his efforts. And obviously we owe a lot to the smart people who have laid the philo-

sophical and practical foundations of the current free software renaissance.

The first edition was technically reviewed by Alan Cox, Greg Hankins, Hans Ler-

men, Heiko Eissfeldt, and Miguel de Icaza (in alphabetic order by first name). The

technical reviewers for the second edition were Allan B. Cruse, Christian Morgner,

Jake Edge, Jeff Garzik, Jens Axboe, Jerry Cooperstein, Jerome Peter Lynch, Michael

Kerrisk, Paul Kinzelman, and Raph Levien. Reviewers for the third edition were

Allan B. Cruse, Christian Morgner, James Bottomley, Jerry Cooperstein, Patrick

Mochel, Paul Kinzelman, and Robert Love. Together, these people have put a vast

amount of effort into finding problems and pointing out possible improvements to

our writing.

Last but certainly not least, we thank the Linux developers for their relentless work.

This includes both the kernel programmers and the user-space people, who often get

forgotten. In this book, we chose never to call them by name in order to avoid being

unfair to someone we might forget. We sometimes made an exception to this rule

and called Linus by name; we hope he doesn’t mind.

Jon

I must begin by thanking my wife Laura and my children Michele and Giulia for fill-

ing my life with joy and patiently putting up with my distraction while working on

this edition. The subscribers of LWN.net have, through their generosity, enabled

much of this work to happen. The Linux kernel developers have done me a great ser-

vice by letting me be a part of their community, answering my questions, and setting

me straight when I got confused. Thanks are due to readers of the second edition of

this book whose comments, offered at Linux gatherings over much of the world,

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have been gratifying and inspiring. And I would especially like to thank Alessandro

Rubini for starting this whole exercise with the first edition (and staying with it

through the current edition); and Greg Kroah-Hartman, who has brought his consid-

erable skills to bear on several chapters, with great results.

Alessandro

I would like to thank the people that made this work possible. First of all, the incred-

ible patience of Federica, who went as far as letting me review the first edition dur-

ing our honeymoon, with a laptop in the tent. I want to thank Giorgio and Giulia,

who have been involved in later editions of the book and happily accepted to be sons

of “a gnu” who often works late in the night. I owe a lot to all the free-software

authors who actually taught me how to program by making their work available for

anyone to study. But for this edition, I’m mostly grateful to Jon and Greg, who have

been great mates in this work; it couldn’t have existed without each and both of

them, as the code base is bigger and tougher, while my time is a scarcer resource,

always contended for by clients, free software issues, and expired deadlines. Jon has

been a great leader for this edition; both have been very productive and technically

invaluable in supplementing my small-scale and embedded view toward program-

ming with their expertise about SMP and number crunchers.

Greg

I would like to thank my wife Shannon and my children Madeline and Griffin for

their understanding and patience while I took the time to work on this book. If it

were not for their support of my original Linux development efforts, I would not be

able to do this book at all. Thanks also to Alessandro and Jon for offering to let me

work on this book; I am honored that they let me participate in it. Much gratitude is

given to all of the Linux kernel programmers, who were unselfish enough to write

code in the public view, so that I and others could learn so much from just reading it.

Also, for everyone who has ever sent me bug reports, critiqued my code, and flamed

me for doing stupid things, you have all taught me so much about how to be a better

programmer and, throughout it all, made me feel very welcome to be part of this

community. Thank you.

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Chapter 1

CHAPTER 1

An Introduction to

Device Drivers

One of the many advantages of free operating systems, as typified by Linux, is that

their internals are open for all to view. The operating system, once a dark and myste-

rious area whose code was restricted to a small number of programmers, can now be

readily examined, understood, and modified by anybody with the requisite skills.

Linux has helped to democratize operating systems. The Linux kernel remains a

large and complex body of code, however, and would-be kernel hackers need an

entry point where they can approach the code without being overwhelmed by com-

plexity. Often, device drivers provide that gateway.

Device drivers take on a special role in the Linux kernel. They are distinct “black

boxes” that make a particular piece of hardware respond to a well-defined internal

programming interface; they hide completely the details of how the device works.

User activities are performed by means of a set of standardized calls that are indepen-

dent of the specific driver; mapping those calls to device-specific operations that act

on real hardware is then the role of the device driver. This programming interface is

such that drivers can be built separately from the rest of the kernel and “plugged in”

at runtime when needed. This modularity makes Linux drivers easy to write, to the

point that there are now hundreds of them available.

There are a number of reasons to be interested in the writing of Linux device drivers.

The rate at which new hardware becomes available (and obsolete!) alone guarantees

that driver writers will be busy for the foreseeable future. Individuals may need to

know about drivers in order to gain access to a particular device that is of interest to

them. Hardware vendors, by making a Linux driver available for their products, can

add the large and growing Linux user base to their potential markets. And the open

source nature of the Linux system means that if the driver writer wishes, the source

to a driver can be quickly disseminated to millions of users.

This book teaches you how to write your own drivers and how to hack around in

related parts of the kernel. We have taken a device-independent approach; the pro-

gramming techniques and interfaces are presented, whenever possible, without being

tied to any specific device. Each driver is different; as a driver writer, you need to

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understand your specific device well. But most of the principles and basic tech-

niques are the same for all drivers. This book cannot teach you about your device,

but it gives you a handle on the background you need to make your device work.

As you learn to write drivers, you find out a lot about the Linux kernel in general;

this may help you understand how your machine works and why things aren’t

always as fast as you expect or don’t do quite what you want. We introduce new

ideas gradually, starting off with very simple drivers and building on them; every new

concept is accompanied by sample code that doesn’t need special hardware to be

tested.

This chapter doesn’t actually get into writing code. However, we introduce some

background concepts about the Linux kernel that you’ll be glad you know later,

when we do launch into programming.

The Role of the Device Driver

As a programmer, you are able to make your own choices about your driver, and

choose an acceptable trade-off between the programming time required and the flexi-

bility of the result. Though it may appear strange to say that a driver is “flexible,” we

like this word because it emphasizes that the role of a device driver is providing

mechanism, not policy.

The distinction between mechanism and policy is one of the best ideas behind the

Unix design. Most programming problems can indeed be split into two parts: “what

capabilities are to be provided” (the mechanism) and “how those capabilities can be

used” (the policy). If the two issues are addressed by different parts of the program,

or even by different programs altogether, the software package is much easier to

develop and to adapt to particular needs.

For example, Unix management of the graphic display is split between the X server,

which knows the hardware and offers a unified interface to user programs, and the

window and session managers, which implement a particular policy without know-

ing anything about the hardware. People can use the same window manager on dif-

ferent hardware, and different users can run different configurations on the same

workstation. Even completely different desktop environments, such as KDE and

GNOME, can coexist on the same system. Another example is the layered structure

of TCP/IP networking: the operating system offers the socket abstraction, which

implements no policy regarding the data to be transferred, while different servers are

in charge of the services (and their associated policies). Moreover, a server like ftpd

provides the file transfer mechanism, while users can use whatever client they prefer;

both command-line and graphic clients exist, and anyone can write a new user inter-

face to transfer files.

Where drivers are concerned, the same separation of mechanism and policy applies.

The floppy driver is policy free—its role is only to show the diskette as a continuous

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