From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx113.postini.com [74.125.245.113]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97A076B004D for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:54:23 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4F1E013E.9060009@fb.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:54:22 -0800 From: Arun Sharma MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Enable MAP_UNINITIALIZED for archs with mmu References: <1326912662-18805-1-git-send-email-asharma@fb.com> <20120119114206.653b88bd.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <20120119114206.653b88bd.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Balbir Singh , akpm@linux-foundation.org On 1/18/12 6:42 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > Hmm, then, > 1. a new task jumped into this cgroup can see any uncleared data... > 2. if a memcg pointer is reused, the information will be leaked. You're suggesting mm_match_cgroup() is good enough for accounting purposes, but not usable for cases where its important to get the equality right? > 3. If VM_UNINITALIZED is set, the process can see any data which > was freed by other process which doesn't know VM_UNINITALIZED at all. > > 4. The process will be able to see file cache data which the it has no > access right if it's accessed by memcg once. > > 3& 4 seems too danger. Yes - these are the risks that I'm hoping we can document, so the cgroups admin can avoid opting-in if not everything running in the cgroup is trusted. > > Isn't it better to have this as per-task rather than per-memcg ? > And just allow to reuse pages the page has freed ? > I'm worrying that the additional complexity of maintaining a per-task page list would be a problem. It might slow down workloads that alloc/free a lot because of the added code. It'll probably touch the kswapd as well (for reclaiming pages from the per-task free lists under low mem conditions). Did you have some implementation ideas which would not have the problems above? -Arun -- 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