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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: John Levon <movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Nice values for kernel modules
Date: 16 Mar 2002 17:03:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73it7w1ow4.fsf@oldwotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203161126130.1090-100000@einstein.homenet.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <16358.1016282075@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20020316154848.GA82190@compsoc.man.ac.uk.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
In-Reply-To: John Levon's message of "16 Mar 2002 16:53:27 +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

       reply	other threads:[~2002-03-16 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203161126130.1090-100000@einstein.homenet.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <16358.1016282075@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]   ` <20020316154848.GA82190@compsoc.man.ac.uk.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-03-16 16:03     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203161300300.1089-100000@einstein.homenet.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <E16mICa-0006mr-00@the-village.bc.nu.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-03-16 22:03   ` Nice values for kernel modules Andi Kleen
2002-03-25  7:47     ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-25  8:20       ` John Levon
2002-03-15 23:59 Balbir Singh
2002-03-16  9:51 ` tigran
2002-03-16 10:00   ` Keith Owens
2002-03-16 10:41     ` Paul Mackerras
2002-03-16 11:27       ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-03-16 12:34         ` Keith Owens
2002-03-16 13:04           ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-03-16 13:52             ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-03-16 17:42             ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16 15:48           ` John Levon

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