Re: Exporting kmemleak.h to userspace

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Thu Sep 03 2009 - 09:20:06 EST


On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 09:23 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I was reviewing kmemleak code and noticed kmemleak.h went exported to
> > userspace under include/linux/kmemleak.h. Do we expect userspace to
> > use this stuff somehow? All relevant kmemleak structs are kept
> > private, I'm curious what userspace apps would use this.
>
> AFAICT, nobody. Catalin, why is the header exported?

I haven't done anything specifically to export it. It probably gets
included via other files. Is adding #ifdef __KERNEL__ enough to avoid
this problem?

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Catalin

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