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Andrew, et al,

OK, Kernel Summit and my OLS talk are over, so here are the goods.

Following patch implements the kernel events layer, which is a simple
wrapper around netlink to allow asynchronous communication from the
kernel to user-space of events, errors, logging, and so on.

Current intention is to hook the kernel via this interface into D-BUS,
although the patch is intended to be agnostic to any of that and policy
free.

D-BUS can be found here:

http://dbus.freedesktop.org/

Other user-space utilities (including code to utilize this) can be found
here:

http://vrfy.org/projects/kdbusd/

This patch only implements a single event, processor temperature
detection. Other useful events include md sync, filesystem mount,
driver errors, etc. We can add those later, on a case-by-case basis. I
would like to be more careful with adding events than we are with adding
printk's, with some aim toward a stable interface.

Usage of the new interface is simple:

send_kmessage(group, interface, message, ...)

Credit to Arjan for the initial implementation, Kay Sievers for some
updates, and the netlink code.

Robert Love


Kernel to user-space communication layer using netlink
X-Signed-Off-By: Robert Love <rml@ximian.com>

arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.c | 9 ++
include/linux/kmessage.h | 15 ++++
include/linux/netlink.h | 1
kernel/Makefile | 2
kernel/kmessage.c | 134 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 159 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -urN linux-2.6.8-rc2/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.c linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.c
--- linux-2.6.8-rc2/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.c 2004-06-16 01:19:37.000000000 -0400
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.c 2004-07-23 11:56:43.443944768 -0400
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <linux/irq.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>
+#include <linux/kmessage.h>

#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/system.h>
@@ -59,9 +60,15 @@
if (l & 0x1) {
printk(KERN_EMERG "CPU%d: Temperature above threshold\n", cpu);
printk(KERN_EMERG "CPU%d: Running in modulated clock mode\n",
- cpu);
+ cpu);
+ send_kmessage(KMSG_POWER,
+ "/org/kernel/devices/system/cpu/temperature", "high",
+ "Cpu: %d\n", cpu);
} else {
printk(KERN_INFO "CPU%d: Temperature/speed normal\n", cpu);
+ send_kmessage(KMSG_POWER,
+ "/org/kernel/devices/system/cpu/temperature", "normal",
+ "Cpu: %d\n", cpu);
}
}

diff -urN linux-2.6.8-rc2/include/linux/kmessage.h linux/include/linux/kmessage.h
--- linux-2.6.8-rc2/include/linux/kmessage.h 1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
+++ linux/include/linux/kmessage.h 2004-07-23 11:56:43.443944768 -0400
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_KMESSAGE_H
+#define _LINUX_KMESSAGE_H
+
+void send_kmessage(int type, const char *object, const char *signal,
+ const char *fmt, ...);
+
+/* kmessage types */
+
+#define KMSG_GENERAL 0
+#define KMSG_STORAGE 1
+#define KMSG_POWER 2
+#define KMSG_FS 3
+#define KMSG_HOTPLUG 4
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_KMESSAGE_H */
diff -urN linux-2.6.8-rc2/include/linux/netlink.h linux/include/linux/netlink.h
--- linux-2.6.8-rc2/include/linux/netlink.h 2004-07-20 15:40:14.000000000 -0400
+++ linux/include/linux/netlink.h 2004-07-23 11:56:43.490937624 -0400
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
#define NETLINK_ROUTE6 11 /* af_inet6 route comm channel */
#define NETLINK_IP6_FW 13
#define NETLINK_DNRTMSG 14 /* DECnet routing messages */
+#define NETLINK_KMESSAGE 15 /* Kernel messages to userspace */
#define NETLINK_TAPBASE 16 /* 16 to 31 are ethertap */

#define MAX_LINKS 32
diff -urN linux-2.6.8-rc2/kernel/kmessage.c linux/kernel/kmessage.c
--- linux-2.6.8-rc2/kernel/kmessage.c 1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
+++ linux/kernel/kmessage.c 2004-07-23 11:58:25.704398816 -0400
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+/*
+ * Kernel event delivery over a netlink socket
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2004 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+ *
+ * Authors:
+ * Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
+ * Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
+ * Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
+#include <linux/socket.h>
+#include <linux/skbuff.h>
+#include <linux/netlink.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
+#include <linux/kmessage.h>
+#include <net/sock.h>
+
+/* There is one global netlink socket */
+static struct sock *kmessage_sock = NULL;
+
+static void netlink_receive(struct sock *sk, int len)
+{
+ struct sk_buff *skb;
+
+ /* just drop them all */
+ while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&sk->sk_receive_queue)) != NULL)
+ kfree_skb(skb);
+}
+
+static int netlink_send(__u32 groups, const char *buffer, int len)
+{
+ struct sk_buff *skb;
+ char *data_start;
+
+ if (!kmessage_sock)
+ return -EIO;
+
+ if (!buffer)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (len > PAGE_SIZE)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ skb = alloc_skb(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (!skb)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ data_start = skb_put(skb, len);
+ memcpy(data_start, buffer, len);
+
+ return netlink_broadcast(kmessage_sock, skb, 0, groups, GFP_ATOMIC);
+}
+
+void send_kmessage(int type, const char *object, const char *signal,
+ const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+ char *buffer;
+ int len;
+ int ret;
+
+ if (!object)
+ return;
+
+ if (!signal)
+ return;
+
+ if (strlen(object) > PAGE_SIZE)
+ return;
+
+ buffer = (char *) get_zeroed_page(GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (!buffer)
+ return;
+
+ len = sprintf(buffer, "From: %s\n", object);
+ len += sprintf(&buffer[len], "Signal: %s\n", signal);
+
+ /* possible anxiliary data */
+ if (fmt) {
+ va_list args;
+
+ va_start(args, fmt);
+ len += vscnprintf(&buffer[len], PAGE_SIZE-len-1, fmt, args);
+ va_end(args);
+ }
+ buffer[len++] = '\0';
+
+ ret = netlink_send((1 << type), buffer, len);
+ free_page((unsigned long) buffer);
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(send_kmessage);
+
+static int kmessage_init(void)
+{
+ kmessage_sock = netlink_kernel_create(NETLINK_KMESSAGE,
+ netlink_receive);
+
+ if (!kmessage_sock) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "kmessage: "
+ "unable to create netlink socket; aborting\n");
+ return -ENODEV;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static void kmessage_exit(void)
+{
+ if (kmessage_sock)
+ sock_release(kmessage_sock->sk_socket);
+}
+
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Kernel message delivery to userspace");
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+
+module_init(kmessage_init);
+module_exit(kmessage_exit);
diff -urN linux-2.6.8-rc2/kernel/Makefile linux/kernel/Makefile
--- linux-2.6.8-rc2/kernel/Makefile 2004-07-20 15:40:14.000000000 -0400
+++ linux/kernel/Makefile 2004-07-23 11:56:43.490937624 -0400
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
#

obj-y = sched.o fork.o exec_domain.o panic.o printk.o profile.o \
- exit.o itimer.o time.o softirq.o resource.o \
+ exit.o itimer.o time.o softirq.o resource.o kmessage.o\
sysctl.o capability.o ptrace.o timer.o user.o \
signal.o sys.o kmod.o workqueue.o pid.o \
rcupdate.o intermodule.o extable.o params.o posix-timers.o \

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