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SubjectRe: [kernel-hardening] Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] mm: restrict access to /proc/slabinfo
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On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>> Having some aggregate number in /proc/meminfo would probably be fine.
>>
>> And yes, we probably should avoid giving page-level granularity in
>> /proc/meminfo too. Do it in megabytes instead. None of the information
>> there is really relevant at a page level, everybody just wants rough
>> aggregates.
>
> We have this in /proc/meminfo:
>
> Slab:              20012 kB
>
> Or did you mean something even more specific?

Oh, sorry, I completely misread what you wrote above. Sure, we can
round the numbers into megabytes without breaking the ABI.

Pekka
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