The Linux Kernel
6.0.0-rc7
The Linux kernel user’s and administrator’s guide
Linux kernel release 6.x <http://kernel.org/>
The kernel’s command-line parameters
Linux allocated devices (4.x+ version)
Documentation for /proc/sys
Linux ABI description
Feature status on all architectures
Hardware vulnerabilities
Reporting issues
Reporting regressions
Security bugs
Bug hunting
Bisecting a bug
Tainted kernels
Ramoops oops/panic logger
Dynamic debug
Explaining the “No working init found.” boot hang message
Documentation for Kdump - The kexec-based Crash Dumping Solution
Performance monitor support
pstore block oops/panic logger
Rules on how to access information in sysfs
ACPI Support
Upgrading ACPI tables via initrd
Overriding DSDT
SSDT Overlays
Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC)
ACPI Fan Performance States
ATA over Ethernet (AoE)
Auxiliary Display Support
A block layer cache (bcache)
The Android binderfs Filesystem
Kernel Support for miscellaneous Binary Formats (binfmt_misc)
Block Devices
Boot Configuration
Linux Braille Console
btmrvl driver
Control Groups version 1
Control Group v2
CIFS
Clearing WARN_ONCE
CPU load
How CPU topology info is exported via sysfs
Dell Remote BIOS Update driver (dell_rbu)
Device Mapper
EDID
The EFI Boot Stub
ext4 General Information
File system Monitoring with fanotify
NFS
gpio
Notes on the change from 16-bit UIDs to 32-bit UIDs
Linux support for random number generator in i8xx chipsets
Using the initial RAM disk (initrd)
I/O statistics fields
Java(tm) Binary Kernel Support for Linux v1.03
IBM’s Journaled File System (JFS) for Linux
Reducing OS jitter due to per-cpu kthreads
Laptop Drivers
Parallel port LCD/Keypad Panel support
LDM - Logical Disk Manager (Dynamic Disks)
Softlockup detector and hardlockup detector (aka nmi_watchdog)
Linux Security Module Usage
RAID arrays
Media subsystem admin and user guide
Memory Management
Kernel module signing facility
Mono(tm) Binary Kernel Support for Linux
Namespaces
Numa policy hit/miss statistics
Parport
Perf events and tool security
Power Management
Linux Plug and Play Documentation
RapidIO Subsystem Guide
Reliability, Availability and Serviceability
Real Time Clock (RTC) Drivers for Linux
Linux Serial Console
Video Mode Selection Support 2.13
Syscall User Dispatch
Linux Magic System Request Key Hacks
USB4 and Thunderbolt
Using UFS
Unicode support
Software cursor for VGA
Video Output Switcher Control
The SGI XFS Filesystem
Kernel Build System
The Linux kernel firmware guide
Open Firmware and Devicetree
The Linux kernel user-space API guide
Working with the kernel development community
Development tools for the kernel
How to write kernel documentation
Kernel Hacking Guides
Linux Tracing Technologies
Kernel Maintainer Handbook
fault-injection
Kernel Livepatching
Rust
The Linux driver implementer’s API guide
Core API Documentation
locking
Accounting
Block
cdrom
Linux CPUFreq - CPU frequency and voltage scaling code in the Linux(TM) kernel
Frame Buffer
fpga
Human Interface Devices (HID)
I2C/SMBus Subsystem
Industrial I/O
ISDN
InfiniBand
LEDs
NetLabel
Networking
pcmcia
Power Management
TCM Virtual Device
timers
Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
1-Wire Subsystem
Linux Watchdog Support
Linux Virtualization Support
The Linux Input Documentation
Linux Hardware Monitoring
Linux GPU Driver Developer’s Guide
Security Documentation
Linux Sound Subsystem Documentation
Linux Kernel Crypto API
Filesystems in the Linux kernel
Linux Memory Management Documentation
BPF Documentation
USB support
Linux PCI Bus Subsystem
Linux SCSI Subsystem
Assorted Miscellaneous Devices Documentation
Linux Scheduler
MHI
Linux PECI Subsystem
Assembler Annotations
CPU Architectures
Kernel tools
Unsorted Documentation
Atomic Types
Atomic bitops
Memory Barriers
Translations
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ACPI Support
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ACPI Support
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Here we document in detail how to interact with various mechanisms in the Linux ACPI support.
Upgrading ACPI tables via initrd
Overriding DSDT
SSDT Overlays
Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC)
ACPI Fan Performance States