Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751537AbbD3LoA (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2015 07:44:00 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f170.google.com ([209.85.217.170]:33933 "EHLO mail-lb0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751148AbbD3Ln6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2015 07:43:58 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20150429193622.GA11892@node.dhcp.inet.fi> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 14:43:56 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Regression: Requiring CAP_SYS_ADMIN for /proc//pagemap causes application-level breakage From: Konstantin Khlebnikov To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Mark Williamson , Mark Seaborn , kernel list , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Pavel Emelyanov , Andrew Morton , Andy Lutomirski , Linux API , Finn Grimwood , Daniel James Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1024 Lines: 23 On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: >> >> This's no longer true. After recent fixes for "anon_vma endless growing" new vma >> might reuse old anon_vma from grandparent vma. > > Oh well. I guess that was too simple. > > If Mark is ok with the rule that "it's not reliably if you have two > nested forks" (ie it only works if you exec for every fork you do), it > should still work, right? It sounds like Mark doesn't necessarily need > to handle the *generic* case. What about exposing shared/exclusive bit in pagemap == 1 if page_mapcount() > 1, otherwise 0 (or vise versa). Seems like this should work for detecting CoWed pages in child mm. -- 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/