From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: adobriyan@gmail.com, ebiederm@xmission.com,
keescook@chromium.org, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + pid-delete-reserved_pids.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 17:53:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171003155314.GA9929@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59d2c819.FeJw+478bpKqle6W%akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Hi Alexey,
On 10/02, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
> Subject: pid: delete RESERVED_PIDS
>
> RESERVED_PIDS had a noble goal: to protect root from PID exhaustion since
> at least ~2.5.40
I am just curious, where did you find the change which documents this goal?
> except it never did that because there was no capability
> or uid checks.
>
> Allow small pids to be allocated after rollover, there is nothing sacred
> about them.
>
> Resource exhaustion should be handled by rlimits and/or kernel memory
> accounting.
I won't argue, but I always thought that the only purpose of RESERVED_PIDS
is to make the system/kernek daemons started at boot time more "visible" in
/usr/bin/ps output.
Oleg.
next parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-03 15:53 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <59d2c819.FeJw+478bpKqle6W%akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2017-10-03 15:53 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2017-10-03 21:53 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2017-10-04 16:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-10-04 20:12 ` Alexey Dobriyan
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