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From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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On Tue 20-11-18 11:51:35, Jan Kara wrote:
> Honestly, it just shows that no amount of documentation is going to stop
> userspace from abusing API that's exposing too much if there's no better
> alternative.

Yeah, I agree. And we should never expose such a low level stuff in the
first place. But, well, this ship has already sailed...

> But this is a good clarification regardless. So feel free to
> add:
> 
> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Thanks!
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs