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Linux Kernel Programming

You're reading from   Linux Kernel Programming A comprehensive guide to kernel internals, writing kernel modules, and kernel synchronization

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789953435
Length 754 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kaiwan N. Billimoria Kaiwan N. Billimoria
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics
2. Kernel Workspace Setup FREE CHAPTER 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

Trying it out – the user segment

Now, let's go back to our ch7/show_kernel_seg LKM demo program. We have provided a kernel module parameter named show_uservas(defaulting to the value 0); when set to 1, some details regarding the process context's user space are displayed as well. Here's the definition of the module parameter:

static int show_uservas;
module_param(show_uservas, int, 0660);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(show_uservas,
"Show some user space VAS details; 0 = no (default), 1 = show");

Right, on the same device (our Raspberry Pi 3 B+), let's again run our show_kernel_seg kernel module, this time requesting it to display user space details as well (via the aforementioned parameter). The following screenshot shows the complete output:

Figure 7.16 – Screenshot of our show_kernel_seg.ko LKM's output showing both kernel and user VAS details when running on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with the stock Raspberry Pi 32-bit Linux OS

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