Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> 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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