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Date:	Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:54:09 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ian Jackson <ijackson@...ark.greenend.org.uk>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	stable-review@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [RFC] mlock/stack guard interaction fixup

 On 08/23/2010 12:26 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 12:23 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> On 08/23/2010 12:07 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> mlock() simply avoids major faults, nothing more.
>>>
>>> I think both page migration and page-out for shared pages where some
>>> maps are !mlocked can cause unmaps and thus minor faults.
>>>
>>> mlock and dirty do not interact, they will still be cleaned/written out
>>> as normal.
>> So mlock is useless for preventing secret stuff from being written to disk.
> Well, if you put your sekrit in a file map, sure.
>
> Use a mmap(MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_LOCK) and madvise(MADV_DONTFORK) for your
> sekrits.

Won't dirty anonymous pages also get written to swap?

    J
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