Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270508AbTGaXCs (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:02:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270092AbTGaXAs (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:00:48 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:989 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S274904AbTGaXAD (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:00:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:47:40 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: joe.korty@ccur.com Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] protect migration/%d etc from sched_setaffinity Message-Id: <20030731154740.4e21a6e2.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030731224604.GA24887@tsunami.ccur.com> References: <20030731224604.GA24887@tsunami.ccur.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 632 Lines: 16 Joe Korty wrote: > > Lock out users from changing the cpu affinity of those per-cpu system > daemons which cannot survive such a change, such as migration/%d. Generally we prefer to not add code which purely protects root from making mistakes. Once the sysadmin has nuked his box he'll learn to not do it again. Or do you have some deeper reaon for needing this? - 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/