Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:29:03 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim() |
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > > the patch below removes sys_set_zone_reclaim() for now.
Probably the right thing to do.
> ... > Firstly, the syscall lacks basic syscall design: e.g. it allows the > global setting of VM policy for unprivileged users. (!)
Martin sent a patch to make it CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only.
> We could perhaps add a CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only sysctl for this hack,
That would be more appropriate.
(I'm still not sure what happened to the idea of adding a call to "clear out this node+zone's pagecache now" rather than "set this noed+zone's policy") - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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