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<h2 class='titleHead'>The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide</h2>
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<div class='author'><span class='ecrm-1200'>Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz, Bob Mottram, Jim Huang</span></div><br />
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-<div class='date'><span class='ecrm-1200'>April 15, 2025</span></div>
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+<div class='date'><span class='ecrm-1200'>April 18, 2025</span></div>
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@@ -2462,7 +2462,7 @@ the same way as in the previous example.
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<li class='itemize'><a class='url' href='https://lwn.net/Articles/22355/'><span class='ectt-1000'>https://lwn.net/Articles/22355/</span></a>
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<li class='itemize'><a class='url' href='https://kernelnewbies.org/Documents/SeqFileHowTo'><span class='ectt-1000'>https://kernelnewbies.org/Documents/SeqFileHowTo</span></a></li></ul>
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-<!-- l. 1282 --><p class='indent'> You can also read the code of <a href='https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/fs/seq_file.c'>fs/seq_file.c</a> in the linux kernel.
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+<!-- l. 1282 --><p class='indent'> You can also read the code of <a href='https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/fs/seq_file.c'>fs/seq_file.c</a> in the Linux kernel.
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</p>
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<h3 class='sectionHead' id='sysfs-interacting-with-your-module'><span class='titlemark'>8 </span> <a id='x1-380008'></a>sysfs: Interacting with your module</h3>
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<!-- l. 1286 --><p class='noindent'><span class='ecti-1000'>sysfs </span>allows you to interact with the running kernel from userspace by reading or
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Example tasklet init continues...
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Example tasklet ends
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</pre>
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-<!-- l. 1923 --><p class='nopar'>Although tasklet is easy to use, it comes with several drawbacks, and developers are
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-discussing about getting rid of tasklet in linux kernel. The tasklet callback
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+<!-- l. 1923 --><p class='nopar'>Although tasklet is easy to use, it comes with several drawbacks, and developers have
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+been discussing their removal from the Linux kernel. The tasklet callback
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runs in atomic context, inside a software interrupt, meaning that it cannot
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sleep or access user-space data, so not all work can be done in a tasklet
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handler. Also, the kernel only allows one instance of any given tasklet to be
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