kernel upcall documentation

[Daniel Eischen]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Konstantinos Boukis wrote:

> Hello,
> I am not quite sure whether this is the correct list, my problem is that I want
> to send an upcall from the kernel to userland to load a module (kernel threads
> cannot call linker_load_module since they do not have a  valid fd_cdir). Is
> there any document describing how to make an upcall from the kernel to
> userland?

This is not how you want to do it.  Do it the old fashioned
way, with a read() or ioctl() from userland that blocks until
the kernel is ready to have the module loaded.

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DE