Welcome to the Linux Kernel Programming website for the summer semester 2026!


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Contact

Course email address: lkp@os.rwth-aachen.de

Matrix server: If you already have a Matrix account on any Matrix server, use this form to send it to us so we can invite you.
If you don’t have an account, you can create one by following these steps:

  • Create an account on https://app.element.io
  • Specify the server: matrix.os.rwth-aachen.de
  • Enter your username in the form firstname.surname
  • Use this registration token (valid until May 3): os-lkp-sose26
  • Use the form above to register to the LKP chat room

Matrix chat room rules:

  • You can ask questions about the lecture and labs.
  • You are encouraged to answer each others’ questions. We will give bonus points to students who frequently help others with proper answers.
  • When answering a question, please create a thread to avoid cluttering the chat room!
  • Do not provide solution code for the labs.

Schedule

Note: This is a tentative schedule. It might be updated if you need more time for some labs, because of unforeseen reasons, or if we decide to add a new lecture topic :)

Color scheme: Lecture (V), Lab (L), Cancelled

Week nr. Monday (UMIC 025) Wednesday (C.A.R.L. H11) Thursday (UMIC 025)
16 (V) Kick-off + History and Architecture of the Linux Kernel (V) C Bootcamp and Kernel Programming
17 (V) C Bootcamp and Kernel Programming (L) Dusting Off Your C Skills (L) Dusting Off Your C Skills
18 Cancelled Cancelled Cancelled
19 (L) First Steps with the Kernel (V) Implementing Kernel Modules & Contributing to the Kernel (L) First Steps with the Kernel
20 (L) My First Modules (L) My First Modules Christi Himmelfahrt
21 (L) Debugging in the Linux Kernel (V) User/Kernel Communication (L) Debugging in the Linux Kernel
22 Pflingstwoche Pflingstwoche Pflingstwoche
23 (L) User/Kernel Communication Mechanisms (Deadline Lab First Modules) (V) Memory Management (1) Fronleichnam
24 (L) User/Kernel Communication Mechanisms (V) Memory Management (2) (L) User/Kernel Communication Mechanisms (Deadline Lab Communication)
25 (L) Memory Management (V) Virtual File System (L) Memory Management
26 (L) Memory Management (V) Tracing Facilities in the Kernel (L) Memory Managment (Deadline Lab Memory)
27 (L) Virtual File System Project Release (L) Virtual File System
28 (L) System Calls (Deadline VFS) (L) System Calls
29 (L) Project Q&A (Deadline Syscall)
30

Team

This course is offered by the Operating Systems group at RWTH.

Lectures: Redha Gouicem
Labs: Jérôme Coquisart

This course is jointly developped between the OS group at RWTH (us) and Julien Sopena at Sorbonne University (France).

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