Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean() vs non-linear vmas | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:12:00 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 10:00 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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.
It was claimed that they use it on tmpfs only, not on a 'real' filesystem.
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