Re: [PATCH] mm/mincore: allow for making sys_mincore() privileged
From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Jan 18 2019 - 09:23:09 EST
Hello, Linus.
On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 01:54:03PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And the first hit is 'fincore', which probably nobody cares about
> anyway, but it does
>
> fd = open (name, O_RDONLY)
> ..
> mmap(window, len, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE, ..
So, folks here have been using fincore(1) for diagnostic purposes and
are also looking to expand on it to investigate per-cgroup cache
usages (mmap -> mincore -> /proc/self/pagemap -> /proc/kpagecgroup ->
cgroup path).
These are all root-only usages to find out what's going on with the
whole page cache. We aren't attached to doing things this particular
way but it'd suck if there's no way.
Thanks.
--
tejun