Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:16:28 -0800
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, davidm@hpl.hp.com,
       lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>,
       Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: replace MAX_MAP_COUNT with /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count
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* Stephen Smalley (sds@epoch.ncsc.mil) wrote:
> commit constraints.  Unless you envision introducing a different
> max_map_count for privileged processes, I'm not sure it is worthwhile to
> introduce a hook for the map_count check or to export this symbol to
> modules.  I've cc'd the LSM maintainer as well to see if he has a
> different view.

I agree with this.  BTW, am I missing an obvious reason the check
in split_vma is >= MAX_MAP_COUNT where the other two are simply >
MAX_MAP_COUNT?

thanks,
-chris
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