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Linux Kernel Programming Part 2 - Char Device Drivers and Kernel Synchronization

You're reading from   Linux Kernel Programming Part 2 - Char Device Drivers and Kernel Synchronization Create user-kernel interfaces, work with peripheral I/O, and handle hardware interrupts

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801079518
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kaiwan N. Billimoria Kaiwan N. Billimoria
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Character Device Driver Basics
2. Writing a Simple misc Character Device Driver FREE CHAPTER 3. User-Kernel Communication Pathways 4. Working with Hardware I/O Memory 5. Handling Hardware Interrupts 6. Working with Kernel Timers, Threads, and Workqueues 7. Section 2: Delving Deeper
8. Kernel Synchronization - Part 1 9. Kernel Synchronization - Part 2 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating and using the first debugfs file

For readability and to save space, we won't show the error handling code sections here.

Just as in the example with procfs, we must allocate and initialize an instance of our "driver context" data structure (we haven't shown the code here as it's repetitive, so please refer to the GitHub source).

Then, via the generic debugfs_create_file() API, we must create a debugfs file, associating it with a file_operations structure. This, in effects, gets just a read callback registered:

static const struct file_operations dbgfs_drvctx_fops = {
.read = dbgfs_show_drvctx,
};
[...]
// < ... init function ... >
/* Generic debugfs file + passing a pointer to a data structure as a
* demo.. the 4th param is a generic void * ptr; it's contents will be
* stored into the i_private field of the file's inode.
*/
#define DBGFS_FILE1 "llkd_dbgfs_show_drvctx"
file1 = debugfs_create_file(DBGFS_FILE1...
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