From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx198.postini.com [74.125.245.198]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 672D46B004A for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:04:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: by yhr47 with SMTP id 47so295715yhr.14 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:04:39 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120313080535.GA5243@gmail.com> References: <20120313024818.GA7125@barrios> <1331620214-4893-1-git-send-email-wenqing.lz@taobao.com> <20120313064832.GA4968@gmail.com> <4F5EF563.5000700@openvz.org> <20120313080535.GA5243@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:34:39 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Fwd: Control page reclaim granularity From: Kautuk Consul Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Kautuk Consul , minchan@kernel.org, riel@redhat.com, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Zheng Liu , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Hi Kautuk, > > IMHO, running application with root privilege is too dangerous. =A0We > should avoid it. > I agree, but that's not my point. All I'm saying is that we probably don't want to give normal unprivileged usermode apps the capability to set the mapping to AS_UNEVICTABLE as anyone can then write an application that hogs memory without allowing the kernel to free it through memory recl= aim. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org