From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: mort@sgi.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: [patch] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim()
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:29:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050801102903.378da54f.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050801113913.GA7000@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> the patch below removes sys_set_zone_reclaim() for now.
Probably the right thing to do.
> ...
> Firstly, the syscall lacks basic syscall design: e.g. it allows the
> global setting of VM policy for unprivileged users. (!)
Martin sent a patch to make it CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only.
> We could perhaps add a CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only sysctl for this hack,
That would be more appropriate.
(I'm still not sure what happened to the idea of adding a call to "clear
out this node+zone's pagecache now" rather than "set this noed+zone's
policy")
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-01 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-01 11:39 Ingo Molnar
2005-08-01 17:29 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-08-01 19:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-08-02 17:10 ` Martin Hicks
2005-08-02 21:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-08-03 13:56 ` [PATCH] VM: add vm.free_node_memory sysctl Martin Hicks
2005-08-03 14:15 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-03 14:24 ` Martin Hicks
2005-08-03 14:38 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-03 14:56 ` Martin Hicks
2005-08-03 19:59 ` Ray Bryant
2005-08-03 20:08 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-05 17:45 ` Ray Bryant
2005-08-05 21:48 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-15 16:05 ` Martin Hicks
2005-08-01 22:48 ` [patch] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim() Christoph Lameter
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