Re: Using tasklist_lock in a module -- is there an alternative?

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2012/1/30 Arokux B. <arokux@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> For learning purposes I would like to iterate through all the
> processes in a module and output different information about them. For
What information did you want to get for processes? /proc/PID/xxx is
not enough for u?
> this task I need to lock the list of all tasks. I've seen some example
> in the kernel code which lock tasklist_lock. However this symbol
tasklist_lock had been deprecated for a long time. Maybe rcu_read_lock
could help u.
> cannot be used by modules. Is there any other way I can lock the list
> of tasks then?
>
> Thanks
>
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Best Regards
Lin

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