From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx182.postini.com [74.125.245.182]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 989936B004D for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 05:16:40 -0400 (EDT) References: <1334483226.20721.YahooMailNeo@web162003.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1334490429.67558.YahooMailNeo@web162006.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1334567799.97554.YahooMailNeo@web162006.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:16:39 -0700 (PDT) From: PINTU KUMAR Reply-To: PINTU KUMAR Subject: Re: [NEW]: Introducing shrink_all_memory from user space In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: richard -rw- weinberger Cc: "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "pintu.k@samsung.com" =0A=0A> From: richard -rw- weinberger =0A> Se= nt: Sunday, 15 April 2012 5:40 PM=0A=0A> Every program which is allowed to = use this interface will (ab)use it.=0A> Anyway, by exposing this interface = to user space (or kernel modules)=0A> you'll confuse the VM system.=0A=0ADe= ar Richard, thank you very much for all your feedbacks.=0AI can see that yo= u forsee many problems in doing that (even as root) =0Aand in just one prog= ram as part of system utility.=0AI am sorry but if you can highlight few pr= oblems here it will be=0Ahelpful for me(and others) to understand.=0AAlso I= wanted to understand, why it is meant only for Hibernation?=0A=0AThank you= so much !=0A=0A=0ARegards,=0APintu -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org