Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:52:35 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: restrict access to /proc/meminfo |
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On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:31:45 -0700 Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 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)
I do not think that does what you intend 8)
I do like the idea - it avoids any interfaces vanishing and surprise breakages while only CAP_SYS_whatever needs the real numbers
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