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Re: Extend "struct malloc_type" for extended KMEMSTATS?



In article <20100331162346.GA11685%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 06:01:17PM +0200, Alistair Crooks wrote:
>> let's learn from the POSIX getline(3) fun we had, and use less generic
>> names than MINBUCKET and MAXBUCKET, please, especially if they're
>> going in <sys/param.h>?
>
>They are already, but why do they have to be exported in headers at all?
>E.g. I would suggest to define them locally in kern_malloc.c and have
>corresponding global variables + sysctl for vmstat() and friends.

That is what ifdef _KERNEL is there for...

christos



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