Programming :: Make A (user Space )process Pre Emptive / In 2.6 Kernel?

Dec 10, 2008

I am writing a program which i dont want the kernel scheduler to preempt before certain time duration. I am using the system call sched_get_priority_max to set the maximum priority. However it is not producing results.

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Programming :: Passing Data Between Kernel Space To User Space In Asynchronous Way

Dec 13, 2010

I am developing a I2C CDROM client driver. The CDROM firmware supports TOC information read through a I2C command. It sends the TOC information in burst ( Interrupts a GPIO pin when it is ready ) and my CPU does a I2C read to read the TOC. When the CDROM firmware finishes sending the last data burst , it informs my CPU that it is done with the TOC, by a flag in the last data burst. I would like to know, which is the most efficinet way I can send these TOC information to userspace?

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Programming :: Function In Kernel Space Called Form User Space

Jul 7, 2009

I wanna write a file in kernel space but from my searching I can to know that instead of writeing file in kernel space ,I can write data to user space by copy_to_user space.

But link is missing ...I dont know how will my user space will access kernel space means my function in kernel space which will do copy_to_user /....How my user space function will call my kernel level function ..

Can any one of you provide me with some example file which are doing this .I know every char driver is using it ...but i could not trace back how user level function is accessing it ...i m confused between user space and kernel space.

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Programming :: Call Socket Prog Code Written In User Space From Kernel Space?

Jul 14, 2009

How to use execv from kernel space to call a user space program writtenfor socket prog.

I tried to write code for socket in kernel but its not working.

Socket code in kernel is also needed.

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Programming :: Signal From Kernel Space To User Space?

Jul 21, 2011

I have the following requirement in my module. The driver gets some data from the external device. After getting 1MB of data it has to send it to the user space application. What is the best thing to implement for this in driver.? Is it ok to implement like, after getting data, the driver will send a signal to the user space application. Then the user space application sends an ioctl to read the data. Is there any alternate, that the driver directly sends the data without the user space application asks for it.?

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General :: Division Of Logical Memory Space In To User Space And Kernel Space

Jan 4, 2010

Logical Memory Space of 4GB is divided in to 3GB User Space and 1GB Kernel Space. Always. Correct?

1. How can we change it? (just changing value of PAGE_OFFSET is okay?)

2. If system have only 256MB of memory (embedded system) and suppose Kernel Modules eat away all the memory during boot. User space will be left will no memory. Is this case possible?

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General :: Virtual Space Seen By Each New Process In User Space?

Jun 21, 2010

In a 32-bit system, max memory addressable is 4GB. Now Linux kernel does memory mapping division of 1GB for kernel address space and 3GB for user address space. That means 4GB of virtual address space is divided between kernel (1GB) and user (3GB).

Q1. All virtual mapping utilizes the available physical RAM without any division? I mean to say that if RAM is 512MB then a page in kernel space can lie any where RAM (leave aside old PCI dma accesses)? (How this fits to fact that kernel memory is non-pageble)

Q2. If a process is created in user space, it has visibility 4GB address space or 3GB address space?

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General :: Calling User Space Callback Function From Kernel Space?

Sep 22, 2009

I am writing device driver in which i have to call callback function from kernel space, which are saving my data. But the callback functions are in userspace. While accessing them i am getting segmentation fault.

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General :: Process Control From Boot Loader To User Space

Jun 29, 2010

For the past few days I was putting effort on understanding the software control flow starting from "Boot loader" to "Linux User space".

I am consolidating the entire process and putting forth in this forum...It would be great if someone can validate this..It might be useful to other new bees too.

Step 1 : Power up the board

Step 2 : The CPU control goes to EEPROM/storage memory where BIOS resides

Step 3: BIOS gets loaded in RAM and gets executed

Step 4: During execution, the selection of Boot device has to be done with the help of BIOS Menu [Blue screen appearance during start up in normal PC's]

Step 5: BIOS shall access the Bootloader stored in boot device [for eg.,Hard disk]. Boot loader is stored in MBR area.

for explanation purpose I take the following configurations

Bootloader = GRUB
Boot Device = Hard Disk

Step 6: GRUB shall be loaded in RAM and gets executed

Step 7: GRUB shall load the KERNEL image to RAM. Kernel image is stored in Hard Disk.

The question of "How the GRUB knows where the Kernel image is stored".

The answer is
1. In the "Grub.config" file, the location of "Kernel Image" and " Ramdisk Image" [which will be discussed later in the section] is being given.

Step 8: Kernel Image followed by Ramdisk Image is loaded in RAM by GRUB bootloader

Step 9: Kernel Image gets executed...During execution, top portion of the code shall make initial hardware initialization and latter part
of the code shall just decompress the Kernel Image

Step 10 : After decompressing the Kernel Image, it shall decompress
the already loaded Ramdisk Image

Ram disk is just creating a temporary hard disk in RAM. The main responsibility includes it consists of minimal driver files, executables, directory structures to created a TEMPORARY ROOT FILE SYSTEM.

This Temporary Root File system shall be used by Kernel Image

1. Execute the executables to access the Hard disk
2. For creating Permanent Root File System in HARD DISK

Step 11 : Kernel Shall look for the file /Linuxrc in Ramdisk. Linuxrc
is a USER script file [not sure]

Step 12: At the end of script file Linuxrc, the Ramdisk shall give the
control to "USER SPACE" [path for writing the script not known]in Linux kernel

Step 13: USER SPACE is the normal shell

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General :: Measure Kernel Space Time And User Space Time?

Nov 28, 2010

measure kernel space time and user space time?

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General :: Make A Process That Can Be Kill By All User?

Feb 24, 2010

I've three user in my machine ,and i want to make sure that the process created by the user1 can be killed by other user and vice-versa ,is there any way i can do that without using root password or sudo

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General :: Kernel Module Run In It / User Space?

Oct 25, 2010

I'm pretty new to this whole (micro)kernel architecture story.

Im wondering if a kernel module is running in kernel or in user space?

Is a driver running as kernel module slower than a driver build into kernel?
If so, are there some current articles, benchmarks?

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Kernel :: Syscall Accessing User Space?

Feb 22, 2010

If the calling process passes me the virtual address of an its array for example, how can I access it without using copy_from_user?

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General :: Difference Between User And Kernel Space?

Jul 12, 2010

what difference between user and kernel space.

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Programming :: Fork() Copies The Address Space Of The Calling Process?

May 13, 2010

I know that fork() copies the address space of the calling process. Say, however, i have a linked list allocated. Will the list be copied over to the child process's space? If so, i would have to free them in the child process as well as the parent process, correct? Or will the variables be copied but not be pointing to any valid address? Or would it just kind of not do anything?example:

Code:
struct ll_ex {
struct ll_ex * next;

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General :: Shared Buffer Between User And Kernel Space

May 3, 2010

I need a shared buffer between user and kernel space. I read that one way is to allocated buffer in kernel and then call mmap from the user space. I searched for an example but couldn't find something useful. If you know, could you please send me any links or sample code that does this..

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General :: Find Out How Much Time An Already Running Process Is Spending In User And Kernel Spac?

Jun 8, 2011

I am currently struggling with one of my tasks.I was asked to find a way how to determine how much time an _already running_ process is spending in user and kernel space.E.G. <some tool> <pid>[Control] + [c]<pid> spent 12.1 seconds in user and 1.52 seconds in kernel space.Does something like this exist? Basically I guess I am looking for something similar to time, except that the process is already running.So..a) Is there a tool which fulfills this task?b) Is there a way to write your own software which does the job? Is it even possible to code something I am looking for?I recently found strace -c -p <pid>, but well, this is not exactly what I was looking for.

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Programming :: Disable Irq Line From User Space?

Jul 14, 2011

I have written a device driver and I would like to disable an interrupt. In kernel space there is a function called "disable_irq(int irq)", but, is it possible to do it from user space?

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Programming :: Add Percent Complete To A Make Process?

Feb 27, 2010

Most of FLOSS projects has a lot of code to compile, and a big make process. On my new PC i need a half hour to compile Inkscape, and on my old laptop i need something near to 2 hours. There is a way to put a percentage of the work done in the makefile? (Always there are a hard and dirty way... there is a good, beauty, common way?)

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Programming :: Make Getchar() Skip A Leading Space?

Jul 10, 2010

How do I make getchar() skip a leading space? The situation I am looking is this: I print a prompt that ends in a space printf("Input: ");and then when I use getchar() to read the text that was typed after the prompt, it appears to process the trailing space as a leading space that belongs to the input.

how can the space be skipped, preferably without inserting code that explicitly checks whether I'm reading the first character or not. I have already found out that I can skip such a space using scanf scanf (" %c", &ch); where the leading space in the format string eliminates leading spaces from the input string. That is the sort of thing I have in mind.

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Programming :: Issue Ioctls To A Usb Driver From User Space?

Sep 17, 2010

I am looking for a way to issue ioctls to a usb driver from user space. Upon googling, I found that usbfs provides a way to do that, anyhow I can't find sample code to try that out.

Note:
I have written a sample usb driver on the lines of 'Linux device drivers' book. Now I need to try ioctls with usb drivers.

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Programming :: Vmsplice And Splice Usage In User Space?

Jun 10, 2009

I'm using vmsplice & splice to send memory buffers through a TCP socket. I have two issues using these methods:

1) According to the documentation, when using vmsplice with the flag SPLICE_F_GIFT, you cannot modify the buffer you've "given" the kernel. Currently, each time I want to send a buffer, I have to allocate a page-aligned buffer (fill it with data) and send it using vmsplice- splice. When can I deallocate this buffer? Is it possible to modify this buffer after the buffer is sent through the socket?

2) The buffer should be page-aligned both in memory and in length, but most of the time the sent messages (to the TCP socket) - are smaller than a page size - is it possible to "clear" the pipe from the remaining buffer?

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Programming :: Allocate A Cpu Core For Kernel Process?

Aug 3, 2010

My system has Intel Xeon 4-core cpu(hyperthreading 8-core) and run 64-bit linux. I want to allocate one core for general process(kernel process & other processes). And then, I want to allocate the rest of core for the specific multi-thread program.

Q1: I know that I can pthread_setaffinity() for user-mode thread and mpstat for monitoring. So, how can I allocate a core for kernel process and monitor it?

Q2: How can I restrict use of the cores for the multi-thread program? I don't want kernel process to use the cores for the multi-thread program.

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Programming :: Get Process Statistics From Kernel And Return Them Buf?

Apr 7, 2011

I am want get next information: Get process statistics from kernel and return them buf as

Quote:

number of processes : ticks_user : ticks_system : ticks_interrupt : cpuseconds : procsizes : resident segment sizes I am find some this information in /proc/[pid]/stat, but there are is not data about ticks system, ticks_interrupt, cpusecond. Where I am can find it information???

I am write on C, better if it will file witch information, and not programm.

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Programming :: RTS Toggling In Serial Port From Kernel Space?

Jan 29, 2010

Driven by my needs , i need to toggle only the flow control (RTS, CTS) bits and have nothing to do with the rest of the functionality (e.g. normaltx , rx operation). I am presuming that there exists a line discipline from user space for toggling RTS as ioctl (*file, cmd, *unsigned long ) can be used easily to toggle RTS. However, the use of IOCTL in kernel space for the same purpose brings about no change on RTS (oscilloscope shows no change). google led me to this [URL] and according to that i should make changes directly in the driver.

Code:

int x=0;
int actual_module()
{ int k;
mm_segment_t oldfs;

[code]....

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Programming :: Shared Memory Address Area In Process Address Space?

Feb 21, 2011

if i attach a shared memory to my process whch part of the address space it will add(like stack, heap, data, code...).

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Programming :: Simulate A Serial Protocol In User Space Program To Test Reception Algorithm?

Jul 28, 2010

I want to simulate a serial protocol in user space program to test reception algorithm. The protocol is similar to UART protocol but frame format is different. The duration of 1 bit is 114,46 us. In my main function I'm creating two threads. Tx for simulating transmitting data and Rx for reception data. For measure time I use create_timer() function and signals. Each thread has its own timer and signal handler. Tx timer uses SIGUSR1 and Rx timer uses SIGUSR2. Tx thread sets the global variable and Rx reads it.

The timers are set to sample with 114,46 us period. When they reach this value signal handler should set the flag. Flag is check in thread and some operation are made. When I set the timers period for longer time (100 ms) everything works fine but when I change it to default value (114,46 us) the Rx thread doesn't receive the proper data. I am wondering if the 114,46 timer period is possible to simulate in user space? Whether the time will give me the proper resolution ? Theoretically it should provide 1 ns resolution.

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Programming :: Physical Memory Leaked By User Application Process Is Not Reclaimed Back After Exit?

May 2, 2010

Whenever I'm running my application process, I've 1M physical memory usage is increasing for every 2 hours.This I observed using 'free -m' command.But 'top' command did not showing any increase 'RSS' size.It is same as it was started initially.Even though I stopped my process,the increased memory was not released back. If I start my application process then again memory usage start increasing by 1M for every 2 hours. increase of memory usage observer with 'free' and that too when my application is running, but top command is not showing any change in the RSS sizeIf my application is leaking any memory which is allocated by new/malloc, that should be released back whenever my application exit and the size increase will be show through top command for that process, right? This is not happeningThis proves that there is no potential leaks in my process.But why physical memory is increasing when only my process is running?

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Programming :: Make A Cronjob Or At Job User Interactive?

Sep 2, 2010

Any pointers to make a shell script in cronjob or using at to be user interactive. We have a requirement to script a program where it prompts the users in CUI for feedback and capture the output in a text file and act based on the feedback.For eg: At pre-defined time i should prompt the acitve users whether it is ok to shutdown, whose feedback would be captured in a text file. Post which act on the updates in the text file

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Programming :: Use Buffer Of User Mode In Kernel?

Feb 5, 2009

I add new syscall, and it need copy big data into the buffer specified in user mode. How can i do it? use copy_to_user? or can i use memcpy directly? If i use copy_to_use, is it low efficient?v

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