Re: Simple system stats.

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On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 12:51:05PM +0100, Andre Schmidt wrote:
> Hello kernel space,
> 
> user space webmonkey here, tinkering on my home desktop setup and spelunking way too many rabbit holes... damn you source code! ;P
> 
> The other day i got frustrated with re-implementing parsing and calculation of /proc/stat and /proc/meminfo for my visual user interface experiments (in various languages), so i "created"* a kernel module that helps me with that (https://github.com/oskude/proc_topstat).
> 
> But i could not get swap info in the kernel module, cause - i guess - it's not exported?
> So i wonder, would/could upstream EXPORT_SYMBOL(si_swapinfo)?
> If yes/maybe, where/how should i propose such change?

Symbols and functions are only exported if an in-kernel-tree module
needs it.  Sorry.

What's wrong with parsing the existing exports of this value as-is?

thanks,

greg k-h

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