Re: [PATCH] mm: Enable MAP_UNINITIALIZED for archs with mmu
From: Arun Sharma <hidden>
Date: 2012-02-24 19:27:08
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On 2/23/12 6:47 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
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In a distributed computing environment, a user submits a job to the cluster job scheduler. The job might involve multiple related executables and might involve multiple address spaces. But they're performing one logical task, have a single resource limit enforced by a cgroup. They don't have access to each other's VMAs, but if "accidentally" one of them comes across an uninitialized page with data from another task, it's not a violation of the security model.How do you handle shared resouce, file-cache ?
From a security perspective or a resource limit perspective? Security: all processes in the cgroup run with the same uid and have the same access to the filesystem. Multiple address spaces in a cgroup can be thought of as an implementation detail. Resource limit: We don't have strict enforcement right now. There is a desire to include everything (file cache, slab memory) in the job's memory resource limit. -Arun -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>