On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 03:51:26PM +0100, Quentin Casasnovas wrote: ... > > Do we want to fold may_expand_anon_vm() into may_expand_vm() (potentially > passing it the flags/struct file if needed) so there is just one such > helper function? Rationale being that it then gets hard to see what > restricts what, and it's easy to miss one place.
I tried to make the patch small as possible (because otherwise indeed I would have to pass @vm_file|@file as additional argument). This won't be a problem but may_expand_vm is called way more times than may_expand_anon_vm. That's the only rationale I followed. > For example, I couldn't find anything preventing a user to > mmap(MAP_GROWSDOWN) and uses that as a base to get pages that would not be > accounted for in your patch (making it a poor-man mremap()). growsup/down stand for stack usage iirc, so it was intentionally not accounted here. > > I only had a quick look so apologies if this is handled and I missed it :) thanks for feedback! also take a look on Kostya's patch, I think it's even better approach (and I like it more than mine). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
