On 10/12/2012 05:57 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > I would like to resurrect the following Dave's patch. The last time it > has been posted was here https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/16/250 and there > didn't seem to be any strong opposition. > Kosaki was worried about possible excessive logging when somebody drops > caches too often (but then he claimed he didn't have a strong opinion > on that) but I would say opposite. If somebody does that then I would > really like to know that from the log when supporting a system because > it almost for sure means that there is something fishy going on. It is > also worth mentioning that only root can write drop caches so this is > not an flooding attack vector.
Just read through the patch again. Still looks great to me. Thanks for bringing it up again, Michal! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
