Name: Mastering Embedded Linux Programming
Author: Chris Simmonds
ISBN: 9781784399023

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Mastering Embedded Linux Programming

Chris Simmonds

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Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Chapter 1. Starting Out
Selecting the right operating system
The players
Project lifecycle
Open source
Hardware for embedded Linux
Hardware used in this book
Software used in this book
Summary
Chapter 2. Learning About Toolchains
What is a toolchain?
Types of toolchain - native versus cross toolchain
Choosing the C library
Finding a toolchain
Anatomy of a toolchain
Other tools in the toolchain
Looking at the components of the C library
Linking with libraries: static and dynamic linking
The art of cross compiling
Problems with cross compiling
Summary
Chapter 3. All About Bootloaders
What does a bootloader do?
The boot sequence
Booting with UEFI firmware
Moving from bootloader to kernel
Introducing device trees
Choosing a bootloader
U-Boot
Barebox
Summary
Chapter 4. Porting and Configuring the Kernel
What does the kernel do?
Choosing a kernel
Building the kernel
Compiling
Cleaning kernel sources
Booting your kernel
Porting Linux to a new board
Additional reading
Summary
Chapter 5. Building a Root Filesystem
What should be in the root filesystem?
Programs for the root filesystem
Libraries for the root filesystem
Device nodes
The proc and sysfs filesystems
Kernel modules
Transfering the root filesystem to the target
Creating a boot ramdisk
The init program
Configuring user accounts
Starting a daemon process
A better way of managing device nodes
Configuring the network
Creating filesystem images with device tables
Mounting the root filesystem using NFS
Using TFTP to load the kernel
Additional reading
Summary
Chapter 6. Selecting a Build System
No more rolling your own embedded Linux
Build systems
Package formats and package managers
Buildroot
The Yocto Project
Further reading
Summary
Chapter 7. Creating a Storage Strategy
Storage options
Accessing flash memory from the bootloader
Accessing flash memory from Linux
Filesystems for flash memory
Filesystems for NOR and NAND flash memory
Filesystems for managed flash
Read-only compressed filesystems
Temporary filesystems
Making the root filesystem read-only
Filesystem choices
Updating in the field
Further reading
Summary
Chapter 8. Introducing Device Drivers
The role of device drivers
Character devices
Block devices
Network devices
Finding out about drivers at runtime
Finding the right device driver
Device drivers in user-space
Writing a kernel device driver
Loading kernel modules
Discovering hardware configuration
Additional reading
Summary
Chapter 9. Starting up - the init Program
After the kernel has booted
Introducing the init programs
BusyBox init
System V init
systemd
Further reading
Summary
Chapter 10. Learning About Processes and Threads
Process or thread?
Processes
Threads
Scheduling
Further reading
Summary
Chapter 11. Managing Memory
Virtual memory basics
Kernel space memory layout
User space memory layout
Process memory map
Swap
Mapping memory with mmap
How much memory does my application use?
Per-process memory usage
Identifying memory leaks
Running out of memory
Further reading
Summary
Chapter 12. Debugging with GDB
The GNU debugger
Preparing to debug
Debugging applications using GDB
Remote debugging using gdbserver
Starting to debug
Debugging shared libraries
Just-in-time debugging
Debugging forks and threads
Core files
GDB user interfaces
Debugging kernel code
Additional reading
Summary
Chapter 13. Profiling and Tracing
The observer effect
Beginning to profile
Profiling with top
Introducing perf
Other profilers: OProfile and gprof
Tracing events
Introducing Ftrace
Using LTTng
Using Valgrind for application profiling
Callgrind
Helgrind
Using strace to show system calls
Summary
Chapter 14. Real-time Programming
What is real-time?
Identifying the sources of non-determinism
Understanding scheduling latency
Kernel preemption
The real-time Linux kernel (PREEMPT_RT)
Threaded interrupt handlers
Preemptible kernel locks
Getting the PREEMPT_RT patches
High resolution timers
Avoiding page faults in a real-time application
Interrupt shielding
Measuring scheduling latencies
Further reading
Summary
Index

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