From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ed1-f71.google.com (mail-ed1-f71.google.com [209.85.208.71]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D76C6B2019 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2018 06:41:38 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-ed1-f71.google.com with SMTP id z10so1135657edz.15 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2018 03:41:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 50si1206392eds.372.2018.11.20.03.41.36 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 20 Nov 2018 03:41:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:41:36 +0100 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm, proc: be more verbose about unstable VMA flags in /proc//smaps Message-ID: <20181120114136.GE22247@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20181120103515.25280-1-mhocko@kernel.org> <20181120103515.25280-2-mhocko@kernel.org> <20181120105135.GF8842@quack2.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181120105135.GF8842@quack2.suse.cz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Jan Kara Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Alexey Dobriyan , linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML , Dan Williams , David Rientjes On Tue 20-11-18 11:51:35, Jan Kara wrote: > Honestly, it just shows that no amount of documentation is going to stop > userspace from abusing API that's exposing too much if there's no better > alternative. Yeah, I agree. And we should never expose such a low level stuff in the first place. But, well, this ship has already sailed... > But this is a good clarification regardless. So feel free to > add: > > Acked-by: Jan Kara Thanks! -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs