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Message-ID: <20190118142302.GC50184@devbig004.ftw2.facebook.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 Jan 2019 06:23:02 -0800
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Masatake YAMATO <yamato@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/mincore: allow for making sys_mincore() privileged

Hello, Linus.

On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 01:54:03PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And the first hit is 'fincore', which probably nobody cares about
> anyway, but it does
> 
>     fd = open (name, O_RDONLY)
>     ..
>     mmap(window, len, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE, ..

So, folks here have been using fincore(1) for diagnostic purposes and
are also looking to expand on it to investigate per-cgroup cache
usages (mmap -> mincore -> /proc/self/pagemap -> /proc/kpagecgroup ->
cgroup path).

These are all root-only usages to find out what's going on with the
whole page cache.  We aren't attached to doing things this particular
way but it'd suck if there's no way.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun