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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	aarcange@redhat.com, chrisw@redhat.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	device@lanana.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, hugh@veritas.com,
	nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] ksm: dont allow overlap memory addresses registrations.
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 20:43:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A00DD4F.8010101@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241475935-21162-3-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com>

Izik Eidus wrote:
> subjects say it all.

Not a very useful commit message.

This makes me wonder, though.

What happens if a user mmaps a 30MB memory region, registers it
with KSM and then unmaps the middle 10MB?

> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>

except for the commit message, Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-06  0:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-04 22:25 [PATCH 0/6] ksm changes (v2) Izik Eidus
2009-05-04 22:25 ` [PATCH 1/6] ksm: limiting the num of mem regions user can register per fd Izik Eidus
2009-05-04 22:25   ` [PATCH 2/6] ksm: dont allow overlap memory addresses registrations Izik Eidus
2009-05-04 22:25     ` [PATCH 3/6] ksm: change the KSM_REMOVE_MEMORY_REGION ioctl Izik Eidus
2009-05-04 22:25       ` [PATCH 4/6] ksm: change the prot handling to use the generic helper functions Izik Eidus
2009-05-04 22:25         ` [PATCH 5/6] ksm: build system make it compile for all archs Izik Eidus
2009-05-04 22:25           ` [PATCH 6/6] ksm: use another miscdevice minor number Izik Eidus
2009-05-06  0:55             ` Rik van Riel
2009-05-06  0:54           ` [PATCH 5/6] ksm: build system make it compile for all archs Rik van Riel
2009-05-06  0:54         ` [PATCH 4/6] ksm: change the prot handling to use the generic helper functions Rik van Riel
2009-05-06  0:53       ` [PATCH 3/6] ksm: change the KSM_REMOVE_MEMORY_REGION ioctl Rik van Riel
2009-05-06  8:38         ` Izik Eidus
2009-05-06 11:16           ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06 13:34             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-05-06 13:56               ` Izik Eidus
2009-05-06 16:41                 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06 16:49                   ` Chris Wright
2009-05-06 16:57                     ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06 17:47                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-05-06 16:59                     ` Izik Eidus
2009-05-07 11:31                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-05-07 13:13                       ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-07 13:23                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-05-06 14:25               ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06 14:45                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-05-06 15:36                   ` Chris Wright
2009-05-06 15:27             ` Izik Eidus
2009-05-06 16:14               ` Chris Wright
2009-05-06 16:36                 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06 17:09                   ` Chris Wright
2009-05-06 17:54                     ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06 16:26               ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06 16:58                 ` Izik Eidus
2009-05-06 23:59                   ` Chris Wright
2009-05-07  2:41                     ` Rik van Riel
2009-05-06  0:43     ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2009-05-06  9:46       ` [PATCH 2/6] ksm: dont allow overlap memory addresses registrations Izik Eidus
2009-05-06 12:26         ` Rik van Riel
2009-05-06 12:39           ` Izik Eidus
2009-05-06 13:17           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-05-06 13:28             ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06 14:02               ` Izik Eidus
2009-05-06 17:11                 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06 14:09               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-05-06 14:21                 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-06 14:46                   ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06 14:56                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-05-06 23:55                       ` Minchan Kim
2009-05-07  0:19                         ` Chris Wright
2009-05-07 10:46                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-05-07 12:01                           ` Minchan Kim
2009-05-06 14:57                     ` Izik Eidus
2009-05-06  0:40   ` [PATCH 1/6] ksm: limiting the num of mem regions user can register per fd Rik van Riel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-02 22:16 [PATCH 0/6] ksm changes Izik Eidus
2009-05-02 22:16 ` [PATCH 1/6] ksm: limiting the num of mem regions user can register per fd Izik Eidus
2009-05-02 22:16   ` [PATCH 2/6] ksm: dont allow overlap memory addresses registrations Izik Eidus

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