1 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
3 * Sample kfifo byte stream implementation
5 * Copyright (C) 2010 Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
8 #include <linux/init.h>
9 #include <linux/module.h>
10 #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
11 #include <linux/mutex.h>
12 #include <linux/kfifo.h>
15 * This module shows how to create a byte stream fifo.
18 /* fifo size in elements (bytes) */
21 /* name of the proc entry */
22 #define PROC_FIFO "bytestream-fifo"
24 /* lock for procfs read access */
25 static DEFINE_MUTEX(read_lock);
27 /* lock for procfs write access */
28 static DEFINE_MUTEX(write_lock);
31 * define DYNAMIC in this example for a dynamically allocated fifo.
33 * Otherwise the fifo storage will be a part of the fifo structure.
40 static struct kfifo test;
42 static DECLARE_KFIFO(test, unsigned char, FIFO_SIZE);
45 static const unsigned char expected_result[FIFO_SIZE] = {
46 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0,
47 1, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26,
48 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34,
49 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42,
52 static int __init testfunc(void)
58 printk(KERN_INFO "byte stream fifo test start\n");
60 /* put string into the fifo */
61 kfifo_in(&test, "hello", 5);
63 /* put values into the fifo */
64 for (i = 0; i != 10; i++)
67 /* show the number of used elements */
68 printk(KERN_INFO "fifo len: %u\n", kfifo_len(&test));
70 /* get max of 5 bytes from the fifo */
71 i = kfifo_out(&test, buf, 5);
72 printk(KERN_INFO "buf: %.*s\n", i, buf);
74 /* get max of 2 elements from the fifo */
75 ret = kfifo_out(&test, buf, 2);
76 printk(KERN_INFO "ret: %d\n", ret);
77 /* and put it back to the end of the fifo */
78 ret = kfifo_in(&test, buf, ret);
79 printk(KERN_INFO "ret: %d\n", ret);
81 /* skip first element of the fifo */
82 printk(KERN_INFO "skip 1st element\n");
85 /* put values into the fifo until is full */
86 for (i = 20; kfifo_put(&test, i); i++)
89 printk(KERN_INFO "queue len: %u\n", kfifo_len(&test));
91 /* show the first value without removing from the fifo */
92 if (kfifo_peek(&test, &i))
93 printk(KERN_INFO "%d\n", i);
95 /* check the correctness of all values in the fifo */
97 while (kfifo_get(&test, &i)) {
98 printk(KERN_INFO "item = %d\n", i);
99 if (i != expected_result[j++]) {
100 printk(KERN_WARNING "value mismatch: test failed\n");
104 if (j != ARRAY_SIZE(expected_result)) {
105 printk(KERN_WARNING "size mismatch: test failed\n");
108 printk(KERN_INFO "test passed\n");
113 static ssize_t fifo_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
114 size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
119 if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&write_lock))
122 ret = kfifo_from_user(&test, buf, count, &copied);
124 mutex_unlock(&write_lock);
131 static ssize_t fifo_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
132 size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
137 if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&read_lock))
140 ret = kfifo_to_user(&test, buf, count, &copied);
142 mutex_unlock(&read_lock);
149 static const struct proc_ops fifo_proc_ops = {
150 .proc_read = fifo_read,
151 .proc_write = fifo_write,
152 .proc_lseek = noop_llseek,
155 static int __init example_init(void)
160 ret = kfifo_alloc(&test, FIFO_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
162 printk(KERN_ERR "error kfifo_alloc\n");
168 if (testfunc() < 0) {
175 if (proc_create(PROC_FIFO, 0, NULL, &fifo_proc_ops) == NULL) {
184 static void __exit example_exit(void)
186 remove_proc_entry(PROC_FIFO, NULL);
192 module_init(example_init);
193 module_exit(example_exit);
194 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
195 MODULE_AUTHOR("Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>");