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Linux Kernel Programming

You're reading from  Linux Kernel Programming

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789953435
Pages 754 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Kaiwan N. Billimoria Kaiwan N. Billimoria
Profile icon Kaiwan N. Billimoria
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics
2. Kernel Workspace Setup 3. Building the 5.x Linux Kernel from Source - Part 1 4. Building the 5.x Linux Kernel from Source - Part 2 5. Writing Your First Kernel Module - LKMs Part 1 6. Writing Your First Kernel Module - LKMs Part 2 7. Section 2: Understanding and Working with the Kernel
8. Kernel Internals Essentials - Processes and Threads 9. Memory Management Internals - Essentials 10. Kernel Memory Allocation for Module Authors - Part 1 11. Kernel Memory Allocation for Module Authors - Part 2 12. The CPU Scheduler - Part 1 13. The CPU Scheduler - Part 2 14. Section 3: Delving Deeper
15. Kernel Synchronization - Part 1 16. Kernel Synchronization - Part 2 17. About Packt 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Writing output to the Raspberry Pi console

On to our second kernel module! Here, we shall emit nine printk instances, one at each of the eight log levels, plus one via the pr_devel() macro (which is really nothing but the KERN_DEBUG log level). Let's check out the relevant code:

// ch4/printk_loglvl/printk_loglvl.c
static int __init printk_loglvl_init(void)
{
pr_emerg ("Hello, world @ log-level KERN_EMERG [0]\n");
pr_alert ("Hello, world @ log-level KERN_ALERT [1]\n");
pr_crit ("Hello, world @ log-level KERN_CRIT [2]\n");
pr_err ("Hello, world @ log-level KERN_ERR [3]\n");
pr_warn ("Hello, world @ log-level KERN_WARNING [4]\n");
pr_notice("Hello, world @ log-level KERN_NOTICE [5]\n");
pr_info ("Hello, world @ log-level KERN_INFO [6]\n");
pr_debug ("Hello, world @ log-level KERN_DEBUG [7]\n");
pr_devel("Hello, world via the pr_devel() macro&quot...
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