Problem with reading a file in kernel module

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walden

Hi all,

I'm current working on a kernel module that needs to read a data file at load time, but I don't know how to do that. I know reading or writing files from a kernel module is not a good idea, but that file contains one million number that was pre-calculated in userland using complex math formula. That's too difficult to implement in kernel space.

I had done this in Linux successfully. Now I need to implement it in FreeBSD, and is stuck on this issue. Does FreeBSD provide some mechanisms to do file I/O in kernel module?

Thanks a lot.

walden
 
Because there are 1 million 64 bit integer, totally 8M size. It's too big, so I don't want to build it into the module.

I find some useful routines in /usr/src/sys/cddl/compat/opensolaris/kern/opensolaris_kobj.c:

Code: 
struct _buf *kobj_open_file(const char *path);
int kobj_get_filesize(struct _buf *file, uint64_t *size);
int kobj_read_file(struct _buf *file, char *buf, unsigned size, unsigned off);
void kobj_close_file(struct _buf *file);

I will have a try.:)

Thanks.
 
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