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oD3 Linux Drivers (online Training)

Writing Linux Drivers

Writing Linux Drivers
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Objectives
  • Mastering kernel development and debug tools
  • Discovering multi-core programming in the Linux kernel
  • Programming IOs, interrupts, timers and DMA
  • Installing and integrating drivers inside Linux kernel
  • Managing synchronous and asynchronous IOs and ioctl
  • Writing a complete character driver
  • Understanding specificities of 2.6 and 3.x versions
  • Mastering kernel debugging technics with Lauterbach JTAG probes.
Labs are conducted on target boards, that can be:
    Dual Cortex/A7-based "STM32MP15-DISCO" boards from STMicroelectronics.
    Quad Cortex/A9-based "SabreLite" boards from NXP.
    Quad Cortex/A53-based "imx8q-evk" boards from NXP.
We use a recent (4.x) linux kernel, as supported by the chip supplier.
Target audience
  • This course is for engineers that install Linux on a custom platform and have to create specific device drivers.
Prerequisite
Course environment
  • Theoretical course
    • PDF course material (in English)
    • Course dispensed using the Teams video-conferencing system
    • The trainer to answer trainees’ questions during the training and provide technical and pedagogical assistance through the Teams video-conferencing system
  • Practical activities
    • Practical activities represent from 40% to 50% of course duration
    • One Online Linux PC per trainee for the practical activities
    • The trainer has access to trainees’ Online PCs for technical and pedagogical assistance
  • Downloadable preconfigured virtual machine for post-course practical activities
Duration
  • Total: 30 hours
  • 5 sessions, 6 hours each (excluding break time)
  • From 40% to 50% of training time is devoted to practical activities
  • Some Labs may be completed between sessions and are checked by the trainer on the next session
First Session
Linux kernel programming
  • Development in the Linux kernel
  • Memory allocation
  • Linked lists
Exercise:  Writing the "hello world" kernel module
Exercise:  Adding a driver to kernel sources and configuration menu
Exercise:  Using module parameters
Exercise:  Writing interdependent modules using memory allocations, reference counting and linked lists
Linux kernel debugging
  • The /proc and debugfs filesystems
  • Traces
  • The kernel Dynamic Debugging interface
  • The Kernel Address Sanitizer
  • Debugging memory problems with kmemleak
  • Using the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer
  • Code coverage using gcov
  • Debugging with kgdb
  • Debugging with a JTAG probe
Exercise:  Display dynamic traces on the running kernel
Exercise:  Debug a module initialization using kgdb
Kernel multi-tasking
  • Task handling
  • Concurrent programming
  • Timers
  • Kernel threads
Exercise:  Fixing race conditions in the previous lab with mutexes
Introduction to Linux drivers
  • Accessing the device driver from user space
  • Driver registration
Exercise:  Step by step implementation of a character driver:
•  driver registration (major/minor reservation) and device special file creation (/dev)
Third Session
Driver I/O functions
  • Kernel structures used by drivers
  • Opening and closing devices
  • Data transfers
  • Controlling the device
  • Mapping device memory
Exercise:  Step by step implementation of a character driver:
•  Implementing open and release
•  Implementing read and write
•  Implementing ioctl
•  Implementing mmap
Synchronous and asynchronous requests
  • Task synchronization
  • Synchronous request
  • Asynchronous requests
Exercise:  implementation of a pipe-like driver:
•  implementing waiting and waking
•  adding non-blocking, asynchronous and multiplexed operations (O_NONBLOCK, SIGIO, poll/select)
Fourth Session
Input/Output and interrupts
  • Memory-mapped registers
  • Interrupts
  • Gpios
  • User-level access through /sys or the GPIO character driver
Exercise:  Polling gpio driver with raw register access
Exercise:  Interrupt-based gpio driver with raw register access
Exercise:  gpio driver using the gpiolib
Busses
  • Plug-and-Play management
  • Static devices declaration
    • in the BSP code
    • in the device tree
  • Platform bus
  • PCI
  • SPI
  • Power management
    • System sleep
    • Implementing power management in drivers
    • Remote wakeup
Exercise:  Implementing a platform driver and customizing the device tree to associate it to its device (a serial port)
Exercise:  Implementing power management in the previous driver
Exercise:  Implementing remote wakeup in the previous driver
Fifth Session
Linux Driver Model
  • Linux Driver Model Architecture
    • Overview
    • Classes
    • Busses
  • Hot plug management
    • Plugging devices
    • Removing devices
  • Writing udev rules
Exercise:  Writing a custom class driver
Exercise:  Writing a misc driver
DMA
  • Direct Memory Access
    • DMA scenarios
    • Buffer access
  • DMA programming
    • Bus master DMA
    • Slave DMA
  • Memory barriers
Exercise:  Implementing slave DMA in a serial port driver
Appendices
USB Drivers
  • The USB bus
  • USB devices
  • User-space USB interface
  • USB descriptors
  • USB requests
  • USB device drivers
Exercise:  Writing a USB host driver
Network drivers
  • structures
    • network interface representation (struct net_device)
    • network packet (struct sk_buff)
  • scatter/gather
  • interface
    • receiving packets
    • sending packets
    • lost packets management
    • network interface statistics
  • New network API (NAPI)
    • "interrupt mitigation" (suppression of unneeded IRQs)
    • "packet throttling" (suppression of packets in the driver itself when system is overwhelmed)
Memory management
  • Virtual Memory
  • Memory Allocation
    • Free page management
    • Normal memory allocation
    • Virtual memory allocation
    • Huge allocations
 
Duration Cost Calendar
30 hours 2610 € HT Session calendar
Last update: 10 March 2020
This course was designed specifically to be provided online, by one of our skilled trainers.
Scheduled classes are confirmed as soon as there is a confirmed booking.
A version tailored for face-to-face delivery is available under reference
D3 - Linux Drivers
Next Scheduled Open Courses
From 17 to 21 April 2023 - Online EurAsia (9h-16h CET)
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