On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 04:39:42PM -0700, Scott Long wrote the words in effect of:
> Craig Rodrigues wrote:
>
> >On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 10:26:10AM -0800, Will Andrews wrote:
> >
> >>Of course, these things can be fixed. But I consider this change
> >>gratuitous and it breaks standard compatability rules: deprecate
> >>for one major version and remove in the second. I haven't seen
> >>any reason why this couldn't be added to vm/vm_param.h:
> >>
> >>#define VM_METER VM_TOTAL
> >>
> >>for compatability purposes. This change is way too sudden in an
> >>external API (if it's supposed to be internal, then protect it
> >>with an #ifdef _KERNEL already!).
> >
> >
> >How about this then:
> >
> >
> >Index: vm_param.h
> >===================================================================
> >RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/vm/vm_param.h,v
> >retrieving revision 1.16
> >diff -u -r1.16 vm_param.h
> >--- vm_param.h 2003/01/11 07:29:46 1.16
> >+++ vm_param.h 2003/01/17 23:25:52
> >@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@
> > #define VM_SWAPPING_ENABLED 11 /* swapping enabled */
> > #define VM_MAXID 12 /* number of valid vm ids */
> >
> >+#define VM_METER VM_TOTAL /* backwards compatibility, struct vmmeter
> >*/
> >+
> > #define CTL_VM_NAMES { \
> > { 0, 0 }, \
> > { "vmtotal", CTLTYPE_STRUCT }, \
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >The only place where VM_METER is used in this directory was in vm_meter.c:
> >
> > 240 SYSCTL_PROC(_vm, VM_METER, vmmeter, CTLTYPE_OPAQUE|CTLFLAG_RD,
> > 241 0, sizeof(struct vmtotal), vmtotal, "S,vmtotal",
> > 242 "System virtual memory statistics");
> >
> >This changed to:
> >
> > 240 SYSCTL_PROC(_vm, VM_TOTAL, vmtotal, CTLTYPE_OPAQUE|CTLFLAG_RD,
> > 241 0, sizeof(struct vmtotal), vmtotal, "S,vmtotal",
> > 242 "System virtual memory statistics");
> >
> >
> >
> This is ugly and only further perpetuates what appears to be a
> gratuitous API
> change. Let's wait to hear from the submitter (Hiten) and committer
> (Matt) to
> see why this was needed in the first place.
>
> Hiten? Matt?
The change was made, because VM_METER was a bogus name for what it did.
It returned struct vmtotal, but we named it VM_METER. Infact, I tried
to push this change some long time ago, but there were complications
(people busy etc...).
I think applicatins to should be changed to use VM_TOTAL, instead of
VM_METER, because that's the correct name. This is the same issue with
the KMEM_METER define, which will be resolved once I get around to it.
I sent this change to Matt first, to check if it was right, since he is
the VM guru and whatnot. Also, the change was made quite a while ago.
Before we entered the freeze, IIRC. IMHO, backing it out will just make
more and more apps use it, and it will be totally sad -- but hey, I am
not Release Engineer, so final decision is up to you.
Cheers.
P.S. Apologies for taking long to reply, I was out party-ing. :^)
--
Hiten Pandya ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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