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From: Alex Elsayed <eternaleye@gmail.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] zram/zsmalloc promotion
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 00:02:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kukiqe$j4b$2@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130816043556.GA6216@gmail.com>

Minchan Kim wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:02:08AM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>> Hi Minchan,
>> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 01:17:53AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
>> >Hi Luigi,
>> >
>> >On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 08:53:31AM -0700, Luigi Semenzato wrote:
>> >If you have real swap storage, zswap might be better although I have
>> >no number but real swap is money for embedded system and it has sudden
>> >garbage collection on firmware side if we use eMMC or SSD so that it
>> >could affect system latency. Morever, if we start to use real swap,
>> >maybe we should encrypt the data and it would be severe overhead(CPU
>> >and Power).
>> >
>> 
>> Why real swap for embedded system need encrypt the data? I think there
>> is no encrypt for data against server and desktop.
> 
> I have used some portable device but suddenly, I lost it or was stolen.
> A hacker can pick it up and read my swap and found my precious
> information. I don't want it. I guess it's one of reason ChromeOS don't
> want to use real swap.
> 
> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromium-os-discuss/92Fvi4Ezego/ZvbrC3L2FG4J

This is when you use dm-crypt. Also, as noted by others, zswap with a fake
backing device that always returns failure (and thus never stores data on 
disk) should behave like zram without any physical swap.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-16  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-14  5:55 Minchan Kim
2013-08-14  5:55 ` [PATCH v6 1/5] zsmalloc: add Kconfig for enabling page table method Minchan Kim
2013-08-14  5:55 ` [PATCH v6 2/5] zsmalloc: add more comment Minchan Kim
2013-08-14  5:55 ` [PATCH v6 3/5] zsmalloc: move it under zram Minchan Kim
2013-08-16 22:00   ` Seth Jennings
2013-08-20  4:21     ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-14  5:55 ` [PATCH v6 4/5] mm: export unmap_kernel_range Minchan Kim
2013-08-14  5:55 ` [PATCH v6 5/5] zram: promote zram from staging Minchan Kim
2013-08-14 15:53 ` [PATCH v6 0/5] zram/zsmalloc promotion Luigi Semenzato
2013-08-14 16:17   ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-15  0:18     ` Bob Liu
2013-08-15 15:03       ` Seth Jennings
2013-08-16  2:02     ` Wanpeng Li
2013-08-16  2:02     ` Wanpeng Li
     [not found]     ` <520d883a.a2f6420a.6f36.0d66SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2013-08-16  4:35       ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-16  7:02         ` Alex Elsayed [this message]
2013-08-14 17:40 ` Mel Gorman
2013-08-14 18:15   ` Luigi Semenzato
2013-08-14 18:58   ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-15 17:12     ` Mel Gorman
2013-08-16  1:52       ` Bob Liu
2013-08-16  1:53       ` Bob Liu
2013-08-16  4:26       ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-16  4:55         ` Bob Liu
2013-08-16  8:33         ` Mel Gorman
2013-08-16  9:12           ` Mel Gorman
2013-08-16  9:18             ` Bob Liu
2013-08-16 12:49               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-16  9:12           ` Bob Liu
2013-08-19  3:18           ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-19  3:57             ` Bob Liu
2013-08-19  4:37               ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-19  5:29                 ` Luigi Semenzato
2013-08-19  6:07                   ` Bob Liu
2013-08-19  6:11                   ` Minchan Kim
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2013-08-14  5:51 Minchan Kim

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