linux-kernel - Re: Exporting kmemleak.h to userspace

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Message-ID: <84144f020909022323na828156v4eb9a8497cadaef8@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:23:30 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>
Cc:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Subject: Re: Exporting kmemleak.h to userspace

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@...il.com> wrote:
> I was reviewing kmemleak code and noticed kmemleak.h went exported to
> userspace under include/linux/kmemleak.h. Do we expect userspace to
> use this stuff somehow? All relevant kmemleak structs are kept
> private, I'm curious what userspace apps would use this.

AFAICT, nobody. Catalin, why is the header exported?
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