Thus spake Mark Santcroos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 03:27:29PM -0800, David Schultz wrote:
> > Thus spake Mark Santcroos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > in <sys/systm.h>:
> > > extern int nswap;   /* size of swap space */
> > > 
> > > in <vm/vm_swap.c>:
> > > static int nswap;   /* first block after the interleaved devs */
> > > 
> > > Is the extern pointing to this variable? (It seems so, don't see any other
> > > such variable in the three)
> > > If so, is there any problem with making nswap non-static?
> > 
> > It's a constant that is only relevant to the management of the
> > swap allocation bitmap, so it is properly static.  It shouldn't be
> > declared in sys/systm.h.
> 
> I need to get access to the swap interface. More precisely, I want to turn
> it off.
> 
> Either some of the values and functions need to be made global or the
> interface should be changed.
> 
> I need this for software suspending on which I am working. (Page in processes 
> and turn off swap devices before I write out the memory to it)
> 
> Is it worth my time to produce patches that change the swapoff interface?

What exactly do you need to change about the swapoff interface?
Unless you're trying to write a module, anything that's going to
be invasive into the swap subsystem's data structures probably
belongs in vm_swap.c.

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