Hmmm. ok. Perhaps then I am barking up the wrong tree with this. I assume they haven't been exported for a reason then - so I'm loathe to modify the kernel itself. Is there a better (preferred) way of sharing memory space between a kernel module and a user space process? On 1/22/07, Florin Malita <fmalita@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
lee nookx wrote: > I don't export them no, because they are kernel functions (defined in > <linux/syscalls.h>) > They are showing up in the symbol table though: > > [lnookx@bloopy module]# cat /proc/kallsyms | grep shmat > c04a1679 T do_shmat > c04a18f5 T sys_shmat > c04a7d0f t dummy_shm_shmat > That's not enough, they would need to be exported explicitly (EXPORT_SYMBOL) in order to be accessible from modules. --- fm
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