On Mon 05-11-12 14:33:12, David Rientjes wrote: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2012, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > The Hyper-V host has a policy engine for managing available physical memory > > across > > competing virtual machines. This policy decision is based on a number of > > parameters > > including the memory pressure reported by the guest. Currently, the > > pressure calculation is > > based on the memory commitment made by the guest. From what I can tell, the > > ratio of > > currently allocated physical memory to the current memory commitment made > > by the guest > > (vm_committed_as) is used as one of the parameters in making the memory > > balancing decision on > > the host. This is what Windows guests report to the host. So, I need some > > measure of memory > > commitments made by the Linux guest. This is the reason I want export > > vm_committed_as. > > > > I don't think you should export the symbol itself to modules but rather a > helper function that returns s64 that just wraps > percpu_counter_read_positive() which your driver could use instead.
Agreed, we should rather make sure that nobody can manipulate the value from modules. > (And why percpu_counter_read_positive() returns a signed type is a > mystery.) Strange indeed. The last commit changed it from long to s64 to suport values bigger than 2^31 but even the original long doesn't make much sense to me. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
