Re: [PATCH V6 6/8] fs/xfs: Combine xfs_diflags_to_linux() and xfs_diflags_to_iflags()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Apr 09 2020 - 08:40:36 EST


On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 10:49:21AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > Christoph did say:
> >
> > "A reasonably smart application can try to evict itself."
> >
> > -- https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200403072731.GA24176@xxxxxx/
>
> I'd love to know how an unprivileged application can force the
> eviction of an inode from cache.

Where did the "unprivileged" suddenly come from?