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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 08:51:26 -0500 From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, lttng-dev@...ts.lttng.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Darren Hart <darren@...art.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] sched: export task_prio to GPL modules * Peter Zijlstra (peterz@...radead.org) wrote: > On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 17:36 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > So what you are saying is that it is fine to export task_prio to > > _userspace_, thus making it part of the ABI, but it's not OK to export > > it to GPL modules ? > > that's a SCHED_DEBUG proc file. Fair point. You'll then notice that /proc/<pid>/stat (18th field) exports it too, and it's not under SCHED_DEBUG: ok:/proc/20# cat stat 20 (migration/5) S 2 0 0 0 -1 2216722496 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -100 0 1 0 70 0 0 18446744073709551615 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2147483647 0 18446744071579371389 0 0 17 5 99 1 0 0 0 (see -100 above) as defined in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: "Table 1-4: Contents of the stat files (as of 2.6.30-rc7) [...] priority priority level" Thanks, Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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