On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 13:07:00 +0100 Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? do you mean i can get swap usage info in a kernel module without si_swapinfo? (as seen here https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/fs/proc/meminfo.c#n44) or do you mean what is wrong with /proc/meminfo? Cheers Andre Schmidt _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
