Réf. : Re: mpc / linux kernel - user space

[Aain_Devarenne%ZODIAC at zodiac.com]

Hi everybody

I 'm pending on the same problem as Juergen,
- How can a User Space Thread Wait for a signaling event set by KERNEL  ?
- Can an IOCTL return pending,  and then do a completion after the event ?
- Can we pass an Handle by IOCTL to Kernel from user space ?

Ps: Calling a pointeur in UserSpce seems a bit weird and unsecure !!!


Regards Alain Devarenne




Hi Juergen,

That's normally not something you do and I don't know if it's possible.
Application code normally communicates with your driver code using
system
calls (read/write). So either your appl procedure must be part
of your module, or you must signal e.g. a user thread the timer
interrupt happened, so the thread can execute that code.
Hope this helps,

Jaap-Jan


On 27-nov-03, at 17:07, Juergen Oberhofer wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I have a module and an application program in user space:
>
> The Module performs the following task: at init it initializes the cpm
> timer register of the mpc823,
> such that an interrupt is generated every x microseconds. Thus, I
> installed an interrupt handling function f that handles the timer
> interrupts.
>
> My problem is that the module / the interrupt handling function should
> execute a procedure defined in the application program. How can I pass
> a
> pointer (which points to that function) from the appl.program to the
> module, such that the handler can execute this function every x
> milliseconds? I thought to create a procedure in the module that
> accepts
> a function pointer as argument. But how can I achieve, that this module
> procedure is visible to the application program? Does somebody have a
> suggestion or know another way to do it?
>
> Regards,
> Juergen
>
>


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