Designed after the wildly popular kernelnewbies.org web sitethis book by two senior kernel developers helps readers understand basic tasks in Linux kernel development and gets kernel newcomers up and running. As the first and only book on the market for newcomers to the Linux kernel, this task-oriented, hands-on guide covers such topics as debugging basics; kernel modules; threads, deferred work, and workqueues; memory management; file systems; kernel testing; and more.