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Date:   Tue, 8 Jan 2019 12:37:46 +0100 (CET)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
To:     Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/mincore: allow for making sys_mincore() privileged
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On Tue, 8 Jan 2019, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:

> Shouldn't the application use e.g. mlock()/.... to guarantee no page 
> faults in the first place?

Calling mincore() on pages you've just mlock()ed is sort of pointless 
though.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs