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Date:   Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:40:18 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
To:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
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Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] process /proc/PID/smaps vs /proc/PID/smaps_rollup
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On (20/09/29 11:05), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> One of our unprivileged daemon process needs process PSS info. That
> info is usually available in /proc/PID/smaps on per-vma basis, on
> in /proc/PID/smaps_rollup as a bunch of accumulated per-vma values.
> The latter one is much faster and simpler to get, but, unlike smaps,
> smaps_rollup requires PTRACE_MODE_READ, which we don't want to
> grant to our unprivileged daemon.
> 
> So the question is - can we get, somehow, accumulated PSS info from
> a non-privileged process? (Iterating through all process' smaps
> vma-s consumes quite a bit of CPU time). This is related to another
> question - why do smaps and smaps_rollup have different permission
> requirements?

Hold on, seems that I misread something, /proc/PID/smaps is also
unavailable. So the question is, then, how do we get PSS info of
a random user-space process from an unprivileged daemon?

	-ss