Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755988Ab3FVKcM (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Jun 2013 06:32:12 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:36068 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752674Ab3FVKcL (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Jun 2013 06:32:11 -0400 Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 03:31:58 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Colin Cross Cc: lkml , Linux-MM , Android Kernel Team , John Stultz Subject: Re: RFC: named anonymous vmas Message-ID: <20130622103158.GA16304@infradead.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 597 Lines: 13 On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 04:42:41PM -0700, Colin Cross wrote: > ranges, which John Stultz has been implementing. The second is > anonymous shareable memory without having a world-writable tmpfs that > untrusted apps could fill with files. I still haven't seen any explanation of what ashmem buys over a shared mmap of /dev/zero in that respect, btw. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/