linux-kernel - Re: Memory overcommit

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0910280801240.20397@sister.anvils>
Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:10:35 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
cc:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	vedran.furac@...il.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, minchan.kim@...il.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Memory overcommit

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, David Rientjes wrote:
> 
> Not sure where the -stable reference came from, I don't think this is a 
> candidate.

I agree with David, this is only one little piece of a messy puzzle,
there's no good reason to rush this into -stable.

> > +	if (has_capability_noaudit(p, CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ||
> > +	    has_capability_noaudit(p, CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) ||
> > +	    has_capability_noaudit(p, CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
> 
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>

(as far as it goes: the whole thing of quartering badness here
because "we don't want to kill" and "important" is questionable;
but definitely much more open to argument both ways than sixteenthing).
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