Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753674Ab1BDJL3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2011 04:11:29 -0500 Received: from smtp02.citrix.com ([66.165.176.63]:36081 "EHLO SMTP02.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753473Ab1BDJL0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2011 04:11:26 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.60,425,1291611600"; d="scan'208";a="134230685" Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH R3 0/7] xen/balloon: Memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver From: Ian Campbell 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" 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" Organization: Citrix Systems, Inc. Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 09:11:22 +0000 Message-ID: <1296810682.13091.571.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 814 Lines: 18 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 from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/