From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 016DD6B005A for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:41:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (smtp.ultrahosting.com [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ultrahosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8939382C26C for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:42:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.ultrahosting.com ([74.213.175.254]) by localhost (smtp.ultrahosting.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id y9o5Sla+1ZAe for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:42:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gentwo.org (unknown [74.213.171.31]) by smtp.ultrahosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B18CC82C299 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:41:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:41:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [Patch] proc: drop write permission on 'timer_list' and 'slabinfo' In-Reply-To: <4A8986BB.80409@cs.helsinki.fi> Message-ID: References: <20090817094525.6355.88682.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20090817094822.GA17838@elte.hu> <1250502847.5038.16.camel@penberg-laptop> <4A8986BB.80409@cs.helsinki.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Pekka Enberg Cc: Ingo Molnar , Amerigo Wang , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vegard Nossum , Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu , Thomas Gleixner , linux-mm@kvack.org, David Rientjes , Matt Mackall , Arjan van de Ven List-ID: On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > slab needs the write permissions for tuning! > > Oh, crap, you're right, I had forgotten about that. It's probably best to keep > slub permissions as-is, no? slub perms can be changed. The patch is okay for that. But there is no write method in slub. Effectively it makes no difference. Just the display is nicer in /proc. -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org