On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 10:27:21AM -0500, Jay Rolette wrote: > Is there some mechanism available that the KNI kernel thread could sleep > periodically, but somehow be awoken from user space?
This is wildly unvalidated, but futex and SysV semaphore appear to be accessible from the kernel side. SysV semaphore sounds a bit cleaner for what you're attempting. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17391276/shared-semaphore-between-user-and-kernel-spaces > So far it looks like adding a syscall is about the only path to let a > user-space app kick a kernel thread. I haven't gotten as far as figuring > out the details to make sure this all works in practice. Matthew.
