Re: Access User address from kernel thread

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On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 04:30:24PM +0530, Rajat Jain wrote:
> >Another way would be to have the kernel thread watch a variable that
> >says "all parameters are ready", but that would require the kernel
> >thread to watch every millisecond or so which will destroy latency.
> >
> 
> Or may be the user space can intimate the kernel via an attribute in
> sysfs? Just like it is done while loading firmware for a device?

That would require an open() and a read() or write(), which are just
system calls.


Erik

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