From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54377C43387 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 02:22:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EEED20657 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 02:22:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726933AbfAQCWs (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:22:48 -0500 Received: from ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net ([150.101.137.145]:31150 "EHLO ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725385AbfAQCWs (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:22:48 -0500 Received: from ppp59-167-129-252.static.internode.on.net (HELO dastard) ([59.167.129.252]) by ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 17 Jan 2019 12:52:45 +1030 Received: from dave by dastard with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1gjxKO-0003NC-7S; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 13:22:44 +1100 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 13:22:44 +1100 From: Dave Chinner To: Jiri Kosina Cc: Linus Torvalds , Matthew Wilcox , Jann Horn , Andrew Morton , Greg KH , Peter Zijlstra , Michal Hocko , Linux-MM , kernel list , Linux API Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/mincore: allow for making sys_mincore() privileged Message-ID: <20190117022244.GV4205@dastard> References: <20190108044336.GB27534@dastard> <20190109022430.GE27534@dastard> <20190109043906.GF27534@dastard> <20190110004424.GH27534@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 08:36:55AM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Dave Chinner wrote: > > > Sounds nice from a theoretical POV, but reality has taught us very > > different lessons. > > > > FWIW, a quick check of XFS's history so you understand how long this > > behaviour has been around. It was introduced in the linux port in 2001 > > as direct IO support was being added: > > > > commit e837eac23662afae603aaaef7c94bc839c1b8f67 > > Author: Steve Lord > > Date: Mon Mar 5 16:47:52 2001 +0000 > > > > Add bounds checking for direct I/O, do the cache invalidation for > > data coherency on direct I/O. > > Out of curiosity, which repository is this from please? Even google > doesn't seem to know about this SHA. because oss.sgi.com is no longer with us, it's fallen out of all the search engines. It was from the "archive/xfs-import.git" tree on oss.sgi.com: https://web.archive.org/web/20120326044237/http://oss.sgi.com:80/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi but archive.org doesn't have a copy of the git tree. It contained the XFS history right back to the first Irix commit in 1993. Some of us still have copies of it sitting around.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com