From: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>, ak@suse.de
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, michael.kerrisk@gmx.net
Subject: Inconsistent capabilites associated with MPOL_MOVE_ALL
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:01:09 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7277.1142380869@www015.gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603060935300.24016@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Andi, Christoph,
In the implementation of migrate_pages() one finds the following
lines:
err = do_migrate_pages(mm, &old, &new,
capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ? MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL : MPOL_MF_MOVE);
while in the implemantation of mbind() we have:
if ((flags & MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL( && !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
return -EPERM;
Is it really intended to associate two *different* capabilities
with the operation of MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL in this fashion? At
first glance, it seems rather inconsistent to do so.
Cheers,
Michael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-15 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-03 16:58 numa_maps update Christoph Lameter
2006-03-04 9:07 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-04 4:59 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-04 20:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-03-04 20:26 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-06 16:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-03-06 17:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-03-15 0:01 ` Michael Kerrisk [this message]
2006-03-15 0:09 ` Inconsistent capabilites associated with MPOL_MOVE_ALL Christoph Lameter
2006-03-15 0:25 ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-03-15 0:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-03-15 0:40 ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-03-15 0:41 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-15 0:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-03-15 1:01 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-15 1:07 ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-03-15 1:12 ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-03-15 1:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-03-15 1:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-03-15 0:59 ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-03-15 1:16 ` Andrew Morton
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