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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2021 14:14:23 -0700
From: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: introduce process_reap system call
On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 5:38 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon 05-07-21 09:41:54, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > On 02.07.21 17:27, Christian Brauner wrote:
> [...]
> > > That one was my favorite from the list I gave too but maybe we can
> > > satisfy Andy too if we use one of:
> > > - process_mfree()
> > > - process_mrelease()
> > >
> >
> > FWIW, I tend to like process_mrelease(), due to the implied "release" ("free
> > the memory if there are no other references") semantics.
>
> Agreed.
Ok, sounds like process_mrelease() would be an acceptable compromise.
>
> > Further, a new
> > syscall feels cleaner than some magic sysfs/procfs toggle. Just my 2 cents.
>
> Yeah, proc based interface is both tricky to use and kinda ugly now that
> pidfd can solve all at in once.
Sounds good. Will keep it as is then.
> My original preference was a more generic kill syscall to allow flags
> but a dedicated syscall doesn't look really bad either.
Yeah, I have tried that direction unsuccessfully before arriving at
this one. Hopefully it represents the right compromise which can
satisfy everyone's usecase.
> --
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
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