On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:47:42AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >> Well, now they don't, but it could be done or even exploited as a DoS.
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:00:36PM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > But so could nonlinear page reclaim. I think we need to restrict nonlinear > mappings to root if we're worried about that. Please not root. The users really don't want to be privileged. UML itself is at least partly for use as privilege isolation of the guest workload. Oracle has some of the same concerns itself, which is part of why it uses separate processes heavily, even: to isolate instances from each other. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
