Re: intercommunications between Linux kernel modules

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Oct 06 2011 - 22:04:10 EST


Cyclonus J <cyclonusj@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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