linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: Add helpers for locked

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20140730124748.GK19379@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 2014 14:47:48 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>
Cc:	Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@...com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	"Jo\"rn Engel" <joern@...fs.org>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: Add helpers for locked_vm

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:30:48PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> 
> No, this is not my intention here. Here I only want to increment the counter.

Full and hard nack on that. It should always be tied to actual pages, we
should not detach this and make it 'a number'.



Content of type "application/pgp-signature" skipped