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As a design choice, the Linux Kernel has very little assembly code. This book takes a lot of assembly code and explains it in a horrible way. A made up example is like
The security_assert function saves the contents of some of the registers by the following:
Movl eax,esi
Pushl eax
Movl eax,(Ebx-10h)
pushl eax

Even being good at assembly, how this code works is not apparent. All non assembly functions are very shortly described in tables. Many are not more in depth than security_getaram: gets security parameters

My afvice: stay away f I’m this book. Try Robert Love’s book
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