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DateFri, 21 Oct 2005 16:20:42 +0900
FromKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/4] Swap migration V3: sys_migrate_pages interface

> Christoph Lameter wrote:
> 
>>> > +	/* Is the user allowed to access the target nodes? */
>>> > +	if (!nodes_subset(new, cpuset_mems_allowed(task)))
>>> > +		return -EPERM;
>>> > +
> 
>> How about this ?
>> +cpuset_update_task_mems_allowed(task, new);    (this isn't implemented now

*new* is already guaranteed to be the subset of current mem_allowed.
Is this violate the permission ?

Simon Derr wrote:
> Automatically updating the ->mems_allowed field as you suggest would 
> require that the kernel do the same checks in sys_migrage_pages(). Sounds 
> not as a very good idea to me.

Hmm, it means a user or admin should modify mem_allowed
before the first page fault after calling sys_migrate_pages().

-- Kame


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