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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

Viewing the context examples

As an example, in our ch1/miscdrv_rdwr misc driver code (and several others, in fact), we used this very macro (PRINT_CTX()) to display the context. Here's some sample output from when our simple rdwr_drv_secret app read the "secret message" from the driver (for clarity, I removed the dmesg timestamps):

CPU) task_name:PID | irqs,need-resched,hard/softirq,preempt-depth /* func_name() */
001) rdwr_drv_secret :29141 | .N.0 /* read_miscdrv_rdwr() */

The header line shows how to interpret the output. (In fact, this header line is off by default. I temporarily changed the value of the PRINTCTX_SHOWHDR variable to 1 to show it here.)

The following is another example from an (out of tree) driver while running the code of a (bottom-half) tasklet (we covered tasklets in the Understanding and using top and bottom halves section):

000)  gnome-terminal- :3075   |  .Ns1  ...
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