Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH R3 0/7] xen/balloon: Memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver | From | Ian Campbell <> | Date | Fri, 4 Feb 2011 09:11:22 +0000 |
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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.
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