From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm, proc: be more verbose about unstable VMA flags in /proc/<pid>/smaps
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:41:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181120114136.GE22247@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181120105135.GF8842@quack2.suse.cz>
On Tue 20-11-18 11:51:35, Jan Kara wrote:
> Honestly, it just shows that no amount of documentation is going to stop
> userspace from abusing API that's exposing too much if there's no better
> alternative.
Yeah, I agree. And we should never expose such a low level stuff in the
first place. But, well, this ship has already sailed...
> But this is a good clarification regardless. So feel free to
> add:
>
> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Thanks!
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-20 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-20 10:35 [RFC PATCH 0/3] THP eligibility reporting via proc Michal Hocko
2018-11-20 10:35 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm, proc: be more verbose about unstable VMA flags in /proc/<pid>/smaps Michal Hocko
2018-11-20 10:51 ` Jan Kara
2018-11-20 11:41 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-11-21 0:01 ` David Rientjes
2018-11-21 6:56 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-20 18:32 ` Dan Williams
2018-11-21 7:05 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-21 18:01 ` Mike Rapoport
2018-11-21 17:54 ` Mike Rapoport
2018-11-21 17:58 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-23 13:47 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-11-20 10:35 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] mm, thp, proc: report THP eligibility for each vma Michal Hocko
2018-11-20 11:42 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-23 15:07 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-11-23 15:21 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-23 15:24 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-11-20 10:35 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, proc: report PR_SET_THP_DISABLE in proc Michal Hocko
2018-11-20 11:42 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-23 15:49 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-11-27 0:33 ` William Kucharski
2018-11-27 13:17 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-27 14:50 ` William Kucharski
2018-11-27 16:25 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-27 16:50 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-11-27 17:06 ` William Kucharski
2018-12-07 10:55 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] THP eligibility reporting via proc Michal Hocko
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