controling on witch cpu part of module code exectue

2007-01-07 Thread Yitzchak Eidus
i am writing a module that have to make use in the vmx operations, to enable vmx operations i have to set bit 13 (vmxe bit) in the control registetr cr4 to 1. doing so in a uni cpu platform is not a problem, the question is what to do when working on smp system? to make all the cpus in the smp sys

splitting work between user space program and the kernel

2006-11-30 Thread Yitzchak Eidus
i ask what is the best way to split the work between the kernel and user space application that will interact with each other...? thanks Yitzchak Eidus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More maj

changing internal kernel system mechanism in runtime by a module patch

2006-11-16 Thread Yitzchak Eidus
is it possible to replace linux kernel internal functions such as schdule () to lets say my_schdule () in a run time with a module patch??? (so that every call in the kernel to schdule() will go to my_schdule()... ) ??? i am talking about a clean/standard way to do such thing (without overwrite