Re: [patch] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim()

[Andrew Morton]

Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> the patch below removes sys_set_zone_reclaim() for now.

Probably the right thing to do.

> ...
>  Firstly, the syscall lacks basic syscall design: e.g. it allows the 
>  global setting of VM policy for unprivileged users. (!)

Martin sent a patch to make it CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only.

>  We could perhaps add a CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only sysctl for this hack,

That would be more appropriate.

(I'm still not sure what happened to the idea of adding a call to "clear
out this node+zone's pagecache now" rather than "set this noed+zone's
policy")
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