adding a sleep / timer in a kernel module

Question

I need to do task at regular intervals in a kernel module after the module has loaded. How do I achieve that. The examples on the web show a hello world in the init_module and exit_module. I have not seen any literature on how to code regularly occuring events inside a kernel module. Can someone please provide inputs? Thanks

Answer 1

Have a look at this article for Linux: Kernel APIs, Part 3: Timers and lists in the 2.6 kernel

It has an example module that uses both the simple timer API, and highres timers.