linux-kernel - Re: intercommunications between Linux kernel modules

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1110062056490.5597@asgard.lang.hm>
Date:	Thu, 6 Oct 2011 21:00:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	Cyclonus J <cyclonusj@...il.com>
cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: intercommunications between Linux kernel modules

On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Cyclonus J wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
>> Cyclonus J <cyclonusj@...il.com> writes:
>>
>>> I am looking for a way to do an IPC-like communications between two
>>> linux kernel modules, such as mqueue or shared memory. After searching
>>> for a while, I can't find such information available inside existing
>>> linux kernel or online.
>>>
>>> So, my question is if this is something discussed before here and gets
>>> rejected or still might be accepted in the mainstream kernel tree?
>>
>> All kernel memory is shared in Linux, so the concept doesn't make sense.
>>
>> If you want to send messages or communicate inside the kernel there are
>> lots of different facilities available.
>
> Andi,
>
> That would be great! Could you point me to some facilities that can do
> this message passing between kernels?

what you are missing is that there aren't two different kernels. it's one 
big process. think multi-threaded programming instead of inter-process 
communication. You don't even have well defined threads to work with so 
you can't say "I'm in thread 1 and need to communicate with thread 2", you 
need to think "I'm in this routine and I need to set a message in a way 
that another routine will read it", this can be as simple as just setting 
a variable (although you do need to make it the equivalent of 'thread 
safe' through appropriate locking or lock-free protection)

David Lang
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