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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH R3 0/7] xen/balloon: Memory hotplug support	for X
 
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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH R3 0/7] xen/balloon: Memory hotplug support	for Xen balloon driver | 
 
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On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 21:20 +0000, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote:
> I have some may be offtopic question: Is that possible to export balloon
> function balloon_set_new_target to GPL modules (EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL) ? 
> This helps to kernel modules (not in kernel tree) to contol balloonin
> (for example autoballoon or something else) without needing to write so
> sysfs. (Writing files from kernel module is bad, this says Linux Kernel
> Faq).
Is there a reason to do it from kernel space in the first place? auto
ballooning can be done by a userspace daemon, can't it?
Ian.
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