Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jul 2015 11:52:52 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHSET v4 0/5] pagemap: make useable for non-privilege users |
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On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 18:37:34 +0300 Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
> This patchset makes pagemap useable again in the safe way (after row hammer > bug it was made CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only). This patchset restores access for > non-privileged users but hides PFNs from them.
Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt hasn't been updated to describe these privilege issues?
> Also it adds bit 'map-exlusive' which is set if page is mapped only here: > it helps in estimation of working set without exposing pfns and allows to > distinguish CoWed and non-CoWed private anonymous pages. > > Second patch removes page-shift bits and completes migration to the new > pagemap format: flags soft-dirty and mmap-exlusive are available only > in the new format.
I'm not really seeing a description of the new format in these changelogs. Precisely what got removed, what got added and which capabilities change the output in what manner?
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