Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean() vs non-linear vmas

Linus Torvalds
2007-03-07T18:01:59Z

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> I'm not at all happy with this, but plain disallowing remap_file_pages on bdis
> without BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK seems to offend some people, hence restrict it to
> root only.

I don't think that's a viable approach. Nonlinear mappings would normally
be used by databases, and you don't want to limit databases to be run by
root only.

Linus