Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: restrict access to /proc/meminfo | From | Dave Hansen <> | Date | Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:31:45 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 15:47 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, David Rientjes wrote: > > It'll turn into another one of our infinite number of capabilities. Does > > anything actually care about statistics at KB granularity these days? > > Changing that to MB may also break things. It may be better to have > consistent system for access control to memory management counters that > are not related to a process.
We could also just _effectively_ make it output in MB:
foo = foo & ~(1<<20)
or align-up. We could also give the imprecise numbers to unprivileged users and let privileged ones see the page-level ones.
-- Dave
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