LKL (Linux Kernel Library) is aiming to allow reusing the Linux kernel code as extensively as possible with minimal effort and reduced maintenance overhead.
Examples of how LKL can be used are: creating userspace applications (running on Linux and other operating systems) that can read or write Linux filesystems or can use the Linux networking stack, creating kernel drivers for other operating systems that can read Linux filesystems, bootloaders support for reading/writing Linux filesystems, etc. With LKL, the kernel code is compiled into an object file that can be directly linked by applications. The API offered by LKL is based on the Linux system call interface. LKL is implemented as an architecture port in arch/lkl. It relies on host operations defined by the application or a host library (tools/lkl/lib). The latest LKL version can be found at g...@github.com:lkl/linux.git FAQ === Q: How is LKL different from UML? A: UML provides a full OS environment (e.g. user/kernel separation, user processes) and also has requirements (a filesystem, processes, etc.) that makes it hard to use it for standalone applications. UML also relies heavily on Linux hosts. On the other hand LKL is designed to be linked directly with the application and hence does not have user/kernel separation which makes it easier to use it in standalone applications. Q: How is LKL different from LibOS? A: LibOS re-implements high-level kernel APIs for timers, softirqs, scheduling, sysctl, SLAB/SLUB, etc. LKL behaves like any arch port, implementing the arch level operations requested by the Linux kernel. LKL also offers a host interface so that support for multiple hosts can be easily implemented. Building LKL the host library and LKL applications ================================================== % cd tools/lkl % make will build LKL as a object file, it will install it in tools/lkl/lib together with the headers files in tools/lkl/include then will build the host library, tests and a few of application examples: * tests/boot - a simple applications that uses LKL and exercises the basic LKL APIs * fs2tar - a tool that converts a filesystem image to a tar archive * cptofs/cpfromfs - a tool that copies files to/from a filesystem image Supported hosts =============== Currently LKL supports POSIX and Windows userspace applications. New hosts can be added relatively easy if the host supports gcc and GNU ld. Previous versions of LKL supported Windows kernel and Haiku kernel hosts. Octavian Purdila (28): asm-generic: atomic64: allow using generic atomic64 on 64bit platforms kbuild: allow architectures to automatically define kconfig symbols lkl: architecture skeleton for Linux kernel library lkl: host interface lkl: memory handling lkl: kernel threads support lkl: interrupt support lkl: system call interface and application API lkl: timers, time and delay support lkl: memory mapped I/O support lkl: basic kernel console support init: allow architecture code to overide run_init_process lkl: initialization and cleanup lkl: plug in the build system lkl tools: skeleton for host side library, tests and tools lkl tools: host lib: add lkl_strerror and lkl_printf lkl tools: host lib: memory mapped I/O helpers lkl tools: host lib: virtio devices lkl tools: host lib: virtio block device lkl tools: host lib: filesystem helpers lkl tools: host lib: posix host operations lkl tools: "boot" test lkl tools: tool that converts a filesystem image to tar lkl tools: tool that 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