From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: mlock(1)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:07:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096060045.10800.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040924132247.W1973@build.pdx.osdl.net>
On Gwe, 2004-09-24 at 21:22, Chris Wright wrote:
> Hard to say if it's a policy decision outside the scope of the app.
> Esp. if the app knows it needs to not be swapped. Either something that
> has realtime needs, or more specifically, privacy needs. Don't need to
> mlock all of gpg to ensure key data never hits swap.
Keys are a different case anyway. We can swap them if we have encrypted
swap (hardware or software) and we could use the crypto lib just to
crypt some pages in swap although that might be complex. As such a
MAP_CRYPT seems better than mlock. If we don't have cryptable swap then
fine its mlock.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-24 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-24 19:57 mlock(1) Jeff Garzik
2004-09-24 20:15 ` mlock(1) Neil Horman
2004-09-24 20:21 ` mlock(1) Neil Horman
2004-09-24 20:31 ` mlock(1) Lee Revell
2004-09-24 20:33 ` mlock(1) Jeff Garzik
2004-09-24 20:39 ` mlock(1) Lee Revell
2004-09-24 20:22 ` mlock(1) Chris Wright
2004-09-24 20:41 ` mlock(1) Chris Friesen
2004-09-24 20:46 ` mlock(1) Chris Wright
2004-09-24 20:54 ` mlock(1) Chris Friesen
2004-09-24 20:59 ` mlock(1) Chris Wright
2004-09-24 22:48 ` mlock(1) Ryan Cumming
2004-09-24 21:07 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-09-24 22:19 ` mlock(1) Chris Wright
2004-09-24 22:30 ` mlock(1) Jeff Garzik
2004-09-24 23:08 ` mlock(1) Chris Wright
2004-09-24 22:59 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-24 23:46 ` mlock(1) Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-25 1:07 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-25 1:21 ` mlock(1) David Lang
2004-09-25 1:30 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-25 1:46 ` mlock(1) Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-09-25 2:15 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-25 2:46 ` mlock(1) Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-09-25 2:58 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-25 3:29 ` mlock(1) Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-09-25 4:07 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-25 4:52 ` mlock(1) Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-09-25 17:15 ` mlock(1) Andy Lutomirski
2004-09-25 2:33 ` mlock(1) Bernd Eckenfels
2004-09-25 1:27 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-28 22:03 ` mlock(1) Robert White
2004-09-28 22:15 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-28 23:26 ` mlock(1) Robert White
2004-09-29 1:16 ` mlock(1) Jon Masters
2004-09-29 1:23 ` mlock(1) Alan Cox
2004-09-29 3:46 ` mlock(1) Robert White
2004-09-29 12:34 ` mlock(1) Jon Masters
2004-09-29 15:57 ` mlock(1) Lee Revell
2004-09-29 22:56 ` mlock(1) Paul Jackson
2004-09-25 12:21 ` mlock(1) Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-25 14:53 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-28 8:48 ` mlock(1) Pavel Machek
2004-09-30 17:42 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-30 18:54 ` mlock(1) Pavel Machek
2004-09-30 19:17 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-30 19:52 ` mlock(1) Pavel Machek
2004-10-04 12:21 ` mlock(1) Jack Lloyd
2004-09-24 23:59 ` mlock(1) Bernd Eckenfels
2004-09-25 0:25 ` mlock(1) Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-25 1:18 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-27 6:16 ` mlock(1) Stefan Seyfried
2004-09-27 10:32 ` mlock(1) Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-27 14:29 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-27 20:32 ` mlock(1) Wolfgang Walter
2004-09-27 14:16 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-27 13:31 ` mlock(1) Alan Cox
2004-09-29 1:48 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-27 14:34 ` mlock(1) Stefan Seyfried
2004-09-27 15:07 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-27 15:25 ` mlock(1) Stefan Seyfried
2004-09-27 15:38 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-30 13:04 ` mlock(1) Pavel Machek
2004-09-27 22:22 ` mlock(1) Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-27 22:43 ` mlock(1) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-28 22:03 ` mlock(1) Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-24 20:24 ` mlock(1) Chris Friesen
2004-09-24 21:17 ` mlock(1) Andrew Morton
2004-09-25 0:26 ` mlock(1) Chris Wright
2004-09-25 1:28 ` mlock(1) Andrew Morton
2004-09-25 1:33 ` mlock(1) Chris Wright
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