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Message-ID: <55709BEA.8030903@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 11:41:46 -0700
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
nao.horiguchi@...il.com, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, mingo@...e.hu,
Xiexiuqi <xiexiuqi@...wei.com>,
Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@...wei.com>,
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
CC: Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 08/12] mm: use mirrorable to switch allocate mirrored
memory
On 06/04/2015 06:02 AM, Xishi Qiu wrote:
> Add a new interface in path /proc/sys/vm/mirrorable. When set to 1, it means
> we should allocate mirrored memory for both user and kernel processes.
That's a pretty dangerously short name. :)
How would this end up getting used? It seems like it would be dangerous
to use once userspace was very far along. So would the kernel set it to
1 and then let (early??) userspace set it back to 0? That would let
important userspace like /bin/init get mirrored memory without having to
actually change much in userspace.
This definitely needs some good documentation.
Also, if it's insane to turn it back *on*, maybe it should be a one-way
trip to turn off.
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