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I wrote this post to summarize some good book which talk about Linux Kernel.

Understanding the Linux Kernel (O’Reilly)
by Daniel Bovet, Marco Cesati

• Introduction
• Memory Addressing
• Processes
• Interrupts and Exceptions
• Kernel Synchronization
• Timing Measurements
• Memory Management
• Process Address Space
• System Calls
• Signals
• Process Scheduling
• The Virtual Filesystem
• Managing I/O Devices
• Disk Caches
• Accessing Files
• Swapping: Methods for Freeing Memory
• The Ext2 and Ext3 Filesystems
• Networking
• Process Communication
• Program Execution
• System Startup
• Modules
• Source Code Structure
• Bibliography

Linux Kernel Development (2nd Edition) (Novell Press)
by Robert Love

• Introduction to the Linux Kernel
• Getting Started with the Kernel
• Process Management
• Process Scheduling
• System Calls
• Interrupts and Interrupt Handlers
• Bottom Halves and Deferring Work
• Kernel Synchronization Introduction
• Kernel Synchronization Methods
• Timers and Time Management
• Memory Management
• The Virtual Filesystem
• The Block I/O Layer
• The Process Address Space
• The Page Cache and Page Writeback
• Modules
• kobjects and sysfs
• Debugging
• Portability
• Patches, Hacking, and the Community
• Linked Lists
• Kernel Random Number Generator
• Algorithmic Complexity
• Bibliography and Reading List