Re: SIGKILL

2012-01-21 Thread Dave Hylands
Hi Darshan, On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Darshan Ghumare wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Dave Hylands wrote: ...snip... >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Darshan Ghumare >> wrote: >> ...snip... >> > What if, >> > spin_lock_irqsave(&lock, flags); >> > for ( ; ; ) >> > { >> >    

Re: SIGKILL

2012-01-21 Thread Darshan Ghumare
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Dave Hylands wrote: > Hi Darshan, > HI Dave, > > Replying to all this time > Thanks. > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Darshan Ghumare > wrote: > ...snip... > > What if, > > spin_lock_irqsave(&lock, flags); > > for ( ; ; ) > > { > >; > > } > >

Re: elf core dump - reading NT_PRPSINFO

2012-01-21 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi :) On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 13:57, Fredrick wrote: > Hi, > > $ readelf -n core is that "core" a core dump? > Does anyone know how to read this NT_PRPSINFO ? > Is hexdump the only way to decode this? > Are there any tools to dump this data ? if it is indeed core dump, I think simply pass it t

Re: Best way to debug an Intel Core i5 hang - likely graphics (possibly power) related

2012-01-21 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi again :) On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 16:58, Graeme Russ wrote: > Tell me about it :( - I've been here before, just not with the Linux kernel At least I can tell you will get hiccup less :) Anyway, you do have data backup, right? Just in case it causes corrupt and you lose some of your data. Bett

Re: Calling a module method from inside the kernel - is it possible Inbox

2012-01-21 Thread Rajat Sharma
well you can do that by exporting a kernel interface for registering your callbacks and your module can register static function pointers to be called by kernel. -Rajat On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 5:42 AM, SaNtosh kuLkarni wrote: > Can you be more specific...wot do u mean by inside the kerneldo

Re: from where to start..

2012-01-21 Thread SaNtosh kuLkarni
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas < martinez.jav...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 4:52 AM, SaNtosh kuLkarni > wrote: > > Hi Sukrit, > > > > Ya kernel development..kernel space is fun...but since kernel has loads > of > > subsystems...you must be or will be la

Re: Calling a module method from inside the kernel - is it possible Inbox

2012-01-21 Thread SaNtosh kuLkarni
Can you be more specific...wot do u mean by inside the kerneldo like want to call a function written inside another kernel module On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Hi, all, > > I want to calling a module method (I am developing the module) > from inside the kernel. How

Re: from where to start..

2012-01-21 Thread Javier Martinez Canillas
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 4:52 AM, SaNtosh kuLkarni wrote: > Hi Sukrit, > > Ya kernel development..kernel space is fun...but since kernel has loads of > subsystems...you must be or will be later interested in certain > subsytems,,,but you ought to understand the basic working and operations > carrie

Re: s3c24xx_console_init in s3c2440.c

2012-01-21 Thread Peter Teoh
Your question is answered in this blog: http://mini2440.wordpress.com/2011/07/ Hope it helps. On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:42 AM, hz hanks wrote: > Hi, all > > I'm studying s3c2440.c of uart driver. In it, there is a macro called > s3c24xx_console_init which is just the function of > s3c24xx_seria

Calling a module method from inside the kernel - is it possible Inbox

2012-01-21 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hi, all, I want to calling a module method (I am developing the module) from inside the kernel. How can I achieve it ? (BTW, I know that vice versa is possible by EXPORT_SYMBOL.) rgs, Kevin ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.o