/ proc的内核模块

Question

How to write a kernel module that creates a directory in /proc named mymod and a file in it name is mymodfile. This file should accept a number ranged from 1 to 3 when written into it and return the following messages when read based on the number already written into it:

• 1: Current system time (in microseconds precision)
• 2: System uptime
• 3: Number of processes currently in the system

“The Output”

root@Paradise# echo 1 > /proc/mymod/mymodfile
root@Paradise# cat /proc/mymod/mymodfile
08:30:24 342us
root@Paradise# echo 2 > /proc/mymod/mymodfile
root@Paradise# cat /proc/mymod/mymodfile
up 1 day, 8 min 
root@Paradise# echo 3 > /proc/mymod/mymodfile
root@Paradise# cat /proc/mymod/mymodfile
process count: 48 

please give me some hint how to write a kernel modules and how to compile and install it .

Answer 1

您正在寻找的是《 Linux内核模块编程指南》 ，特别是/ proc文件系统上的这一节 ，其中提供了详细记录如何添加新条目的示例。

Answer 2

There is an article about this in a french magazine called "Gnu/Linux magazine" this month.

I don't have my bookmarks here, but theses links look ok:

http://www.linuxhq.com/lkprogram.html

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO/x839.html

http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/lkmpg.html

Answer 3

This might be easier to do using sysfs. Sysfs was designed with these sorts of operations in mind, and has simple functions for creating directories and virtual files and callbacks for read and write operations to those files.