Re: Accessing kernel information from a module

["Sumit Narayan" <talk2sumit@gmail.com>]

You can use kernel probes (kprobe & jprobe) for accessing any
variables in the kernel. But ofcourse, this would be running-kernel
specific.

Link http://www.redhat.com/magazine/005mar05/features/kprobes/

Changing the kernel parameters is gonna be a very dangerous act,
unless you are sure of what you are doing.

-- Sumit



On 3/22/06, Anand SVR <anand.svr@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I forgot to mention one more context. In the embedded environment where
> one is memory constrained, the lightweight and low memory foot-print
> module  I am referring to becomes relevant. In addition, since it is
> highly reliable, and remotely manageable as listed below I feel it is
> worth pursuing.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Regards
> Anand
> On 3/21/06, Anand SVR <anand.svr@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The code is not yet ready :) I have a basic version that gives part of
> > memory statistics.
> >
> > Why I want to do it in kernel ? Following are the reasons.
> >
> > - Not all the information is available to the user space. There may be
> > situations where kernel developers, carrier grade server mainatainers,
> > and the like might want to access some internal run-time information
> > for debugging, fine-tuning and so on.
> >
> > - Keep it light weight, and least intrusive to the run-time behavior
> > of the system. No need for  tcp/udp socket communication.
> >
> > - There could be impending catastrophic situations where in kernel
> > cannot schedule user level processes, perhaps due to lack of memory or
> > whatever.
> >
> > - Ability for the remote node to change/control certain kernel
> > parameters by interacting with the module. This paves way for both
> > diagnosing and controlling kernel.
> >
> > Regards
> > Anand
> >
> > On 3/21/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 16:32 +0530, Anand SVR wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I am in the process of writing a module that collects kernel
> > > > information of various kernel subsytems and pass this on to a remote
> > > > monitoring/management node. The information could be statistical data
> > > > maintained in data structures of memory, process, network and so on.
> > > > Or it could be any kernel variables that are of interest.
> > >
> > > you forgot to attach your source code ;)
> > >
> > > > Is there a way of accessing proc information from the module ?
> > >
> > > eh why on earth is your code in the kernel then? Shouldn't your code be
> > > in userspace if you want to send such information to a remote system???
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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