Linux Kernel Development (2nd Edition) is a great book. It is written in as easy a style as possible for a topic as technical as the internal details of the Linux kernel. If you are someone with some programming experience who wants to learn how the Linux kernel works, this is a great place to start.

The book goes into good detail for pretty much all of the main tasks the kernel performs. It includes simple code examples, with easy to understand explanations. If you need a book that goes line by line through the kernel... this is not for you. But, if you need a book that explains the basics thoroughly, but doesn't bore you to death with detail after detail, then buy this book already.

Note: This book covers up to 2.6.10, which is starting to get a bit old. 2.6.26 is current as of this review, so some of this info is out of date, but still is helpful.

This book is just great! I've been reading linux kernel source codes for a while and this book put all things together.

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Sridhar

I heartily recommend this book to anyone doing Linux Kernel or Kernel module development. Although the Modules chapter could be expanded upon, the rest of the book gives excellent insight into the workings of the 2.6 Kernel. Also, the three appendices provide good examples and additional information. This book has provided invaluable information for completing and documenting a complex project I've been working on.

Excellent book for Linux rampups(esp with years on other OS'es).
A flowing style that explains effortlessly about scheduler, slabs, dentry.

In Chap 12, it would be nice to have filesys comparison in table format(e.g. Reiser, ext3, jfs wrt performance, journalling), although this strictly is not kernel.
Chap 18(Debugging) could also be more polluted with real life tools info, e.g Kprobes, LTT, lcrash or LKCD or the coolest toy on sourceforge)

Overall, money very well spent on this book.