Re: Nice values for kernel modules

Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
16 Mar 2002 17:03:07 +0100


John Levon <movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com> writes:

> On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 11:34:35PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
>
> > I can see no good reason why the syscall table has been exported.
>
> please don't change this. Just because it breaks on architectures X
> and Y doesn't mean it's useless.
>
> System call snooping is an ugly thing but being able to do it without
> patching the kernel is incredibly useful. We're not unaware that
> it is arch-specific.

I can just second that. It would make it impossible to fix pice for 2.5 for
example.

-Andi
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