From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5643C8D0039 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2011 04:11:28 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH R3 0/7] xen/balloon: Memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver From: Ian Campbell In-Reply-To: <1296768009.2346.7.camel@mobile> References: <20110203162345.GC1364@router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl> <1296768009.2346.7.camel@mobile> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 09:11:22 +0000 Message-ID: <1296810682.13091.571.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: "v.tolstov@selfip.ru" Cc: Daniel Kiper , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "andi.kleen@intel.com" , "haicheng.li@linux.intel.com" , "fengguang.wu@intel.com" , "jeremy@goop.org" , "konrad.wilk@oracle.com" , Dan Magenheimer , "pasik@iki.fi" , "dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com" , "wdauchy@gmail.com" , "rientjes@google.com" , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 21:20 +0000, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote: > I have some may be offtopic question: Is that possible to export balloon > function balloon_set_new_target to GPL modules (EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL) ? > This helps to kernel modules (not in kernel tree) to contol balloonin > (for example autoballoon or something else) without needing to write so > sysfs. (Writing files from kernel module is bad, this says Linux Kernel > Faq). Is there a reason to do it from kernel space in the first place? auto ballooning can be done by a userspace daemon, can't it? Ian. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org