From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:27:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:27:30 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:46208 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:27:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 07:24:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20010815.072419.48797129.davem@redhat.com> To: andrea@suse.de Cc: thockin@sun.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: poll change From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20010815161318.C7382@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010815021110.F4304@athlon.random> <20010814.171609.75760869.davem@redhat.com> <20010815161318.C7382@athlon.random> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.0 on Emacs 21.0 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Andrea Arcangeli Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:13:18 +0200 I was backporting the new version to 2.2 and I noticed that by using NR_OPEN an luser will actually be able to lock into RAM something of the order of the dozen mbytes per process. He can do this with page tables too :-) Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com