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  • unshare system call
  • futex2
  • eBPF Userspace API
  • IOCTLs
  • No New Privileges Flag
  • Seccomp BPF (SECure COMPuting with filters)
  • Landlock: unprivileged access control
  • Linux Security Modules
  • Speculation Control
  • TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) Userspace API
  • OpenCAPI (Open Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface)
  • Exchanging pixel buffers
  • GPIO
  • IOMMU Userspace API
  • IOMMUFD
  • Linux Media Infrastructure userspace API
  • Dell Systems Management Base Driver
  • VDUSE - “vDPA Device in Userspace”
  • ISA Plug & Play support
  • Linux-specific ELF idiosyncrasies
  • Netlink Handbook
    • Introduction to Netlink
    • Using Netlink protocol specifications
    • Netlink protocol specifications (in YAML)
    • Netlink spec C code generation
    • Netlink specification support for legacy Generic Netlink families
    • Netlink specification support for raw Netlink families
  • Platform Profile Selection (e.g. /sys/firmware/acpi/platform_profile)
  • VDUSE - “vDPA Device in Userspace”
  • futex2
  • Perf ring buffer
  • NT synchronization primitive driver

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Netlink Handbook¶

Netlink documentation for users.

  • Introduction to Netlink
    • Opening a socket
    • Generic Netlink
    • Advanced topics
    • Classic Netlink
    • uAPI reference
  • Using Netlink protocol specifications
    • Simple CLI
    • Generating kernel code
    • YNL lib
  • Netlink protocol specifications (in YAML)
    • Compatibility levels
    • Schema structure
    • genetlink
    • Attribute types
  • Netlink spec C code generation
    • Globals
    • Definitions
    • Attributes
    • Operations
    • Multicast groups
    • Code generation
  • Netlink specification support for legacy Generic Netlink families
    • Specification
    • Operations
    • Other quirks
  • Netlink specification support for raw Netlink families
    • Specification
See also:
  • Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst

  • Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/index.rst

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