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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Federico Reghenzani <federico.reghenzani@polimi.it>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Vlastimil Babka <VBabka@suse.com>
Subject: Re: mlockall() with pid parameter
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 09:40:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4664bc3f-67b8-af11-3f98-a7d480996f5f@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACKey4xEaMJ8qQyT7H5jQSxEBrxxuopg2a_AiMFJLeTTA+M9Lg@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/07/2016 07:39 AM, Federico Reghenzani wrote:
> What I would like to have is a syscall that accept a "pid", so a process
> spawned by root would be able to enforce the memory locking to other
> non-root processes. The prototypes would be:
> 
> int mlockall(int flags, pid_t pid);
> int munlockall(pid_t pid);

The prototypes don't really tell enough of the story to give you good
feedback.  For instance, whose rlimit do these count against?  Are all
the MCL_CURRENT/FUTURE/FAULT flags supported?

I think you need to start implementing something to actually see how
ugly this gets in practice.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-12-07 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-07 15:39 Federico Reghenzani
2016-12-07 16:21 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-12-07 16:33   ` Federico Reghenzani
2016-12-07 20:01     ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-12-08 12:58       ` Federico Reghenzani
2016-12-09 15:36         ` Federico Reghenzani
2016-12-07 17:40 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2016-12-07 18:42 ` Kirill A. Shutemov

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