https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel

Prototyping kernel development work outside mainline
https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel

ebpf-programs kernel kernel-modules linux-kernel xdp

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Prototyping kernel development work outside mainline

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel
• Owner: netoptimizer
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2014-10-22T12:09:22.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-27T15:32:03.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-29T15:01:30.969Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: ebpf-programs, kernel, kernel-modules, linux-kernel, xdp
• Language: C
• Size: 935 KB
• Stars: 298
• Watchers: 30
• Forks: 105
• Open Issues: 13
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: COPYING

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README

        
Prototyping kernel development

==============================

:Authors: Jesper Dangaard Brouer 

This project and GitHub_ repository is meant for speeding up Linux

Kernel development work, this also includes Documentation_.  The

directory layout tries to keep close to the Kernel directory layout.

This helps when/if upstreaming the work.

This prototype-kernel was primarily meant for prototyping kernel

modules (see blogpost_).

XDP eBPF samples

================

**UPDATE**: See `XDP-tutorial`_ if you want to learn eBPF-coding,

and not depend on kernel tree.

The Linux kernel tree also contains some `eBPF samples`_ which this

github repo is also shadowing for easier prototyping, see directory

`samples/bpf/`_.

This directory `samples/bpf/`_ maintains a different Makefile (than

depending on the kernels) and maintains a copy of some bpf-header

files to ease compiling outside the kernel source tree.

Simply run 'make' in that directory to build the bpf samples.

Documentation

=============

This also covers Kernel Documentation_ which is being auto-generated_

by `Read The Docs`_ (based on `reStructuredText`_ files and `Sphinx`_

to generate pretty documentation).

.. _GitHub: https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel

.. _Documentation: kernel/Documentation/

.. _Read The Docs: https://prototype-kernel.readthedocs.io

.. _auto-generated: https://prototype-kernel.readthedocs.io

.. _Sphinx: http://www.sphinx-doc.org/

.. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html

.. _blogpost: http://netoptimizer.blogspot.dk/2014/11/announce-github-repo-prototype-kernel.html

.. _eBPF samples: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/samples/bpf/

.. _samples/bpf/: kernel/samples/bpf/

.. _XDP-tutorial: https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-tutorial