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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] SELinux: add security_task_setmempolicy hooks to mm code
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, James Morris wrote:

> I'll let David and/or Stephen address this in detail, but what's being
> added here is a security asbtraction, where we consider these operations
> to be equivalent from an access control point of view. So, one task
> causing another task's memory to be moved to another node is conisdered to
> be "setting memory policy" at a conceptual level. Perhaps we could change
> the name of the hook to make that clearer (which you suggest below).

That will cause lots of confusion. Moving memory is not a memory policy.

Why was this name picked? Use move_pages movemem or so.

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