Using tasklist_lock in a module -- is there an alternative?

[Arokux B.]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:39 AM, Pei Lin <telent997 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/1/30 Arokux B. <arokux at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> For learning purposes I would like to iterate through all the
>> processes in a module and output different information about them. For
> What information did you want to get for processes? /proc/PID/xxx is
> not enough for u?
>> this task I need to lock the list of all tasks. I've seen some example
>> in the kernel code which lock tasklist_lock. However this symbol
> tasklist_lock had been deprecated for a long time. Maybe rcu_read_lock
> could help u.
>> cannot be used by modules. Is there any other way I can lock the list
>> of tasks then?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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> Best Regards
> Lin

Hi,

thank you for your reply. It would be enough, however I want to do
some kernel programming.

Regards,
Roman