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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 6/8] fs/xfs: Combine xfs_diflags_to_linux() and xfs_diflags_to_iflags()
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 10:27:37 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200410002737.GT24067@dread.disaster.area> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200409124031.GA18171@lst.de>

On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 02:40:31PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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@lst.de/
> > 
> > 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?

I'm assuming that applications are being run without the root
permissions needed to run drop_caches. i.e. the apps are
unprivileged, and therefore can't brute force inode cache eviction.
That's why I'm asking what mechanism these applications are using to
evict inodes on demand without requiring elevated privileges,
because I can't see how they'd acheive this...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-10  0:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-07 18:29 [PATCH V6 0/8] Enable per-file/per-directory DAX operations V6 ira.weiny
2020-04-07 18:29 ` [PATCH V6 1/8] fs/xfs: Remove unnecessary initialization of i_rwsem ira.weiny
2020-04-07 23:46   ` Dave Chinner
2020-04-07 18:29 ` [PATCH V6 2/8] fs: Remove unneeded IS_DAX() check ira.weiny
2020-04-09  7:31   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-09 14:57     ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-07 18:29 ` [PATCH V6 3/8] fs/stat: Define DAX statx attribute ira.weiny
2020-04-07 23:47   ` Dave Chinner
2020-04-07 18:29 ` [PATCH V6 4/8] fs/xfs: Make DAX mount option a tri-state ira.weiny
2020-04-07 23:59   ` Dave Chinner
2020-04-08  0:09     ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-08  0:48       ` Dave Chinner
2020-04-09 15:03         ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-07 18:29 ` [PATCH V6 5/8] fs/xfs: Create function xfs_inode_enable_dax() ira.weiny
2020-04-08  0:05   ` Dave Chinner
2020-04-08  0:13     ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-07 18:29 ` [PATCH V6 6/8] fs/xfs: Combine xfs_diflags_to_linux() and xfs_diflags_to_iflags() ira.weiny
2020-04-08  2:08   ` Dave Chinner
2020-04-08 17:09     ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-08 21:02       ` Dave Chinner
2020-04-08 21:28         ` Dan Williams
2020-04-08 22:10           ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-08 23:58           ` Dave Chinner
2020-04-09  0:22             ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-09 12:41               ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-09 20:49                 ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-08 22:07         ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-08 23:21           ` Dave Chinner
2020-04-09  0:12             ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-09  0:30               ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-04-09 15:29                 ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-09 16:59                   ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-04-09 17:17                     ` Jan Kara
2020-04-09 20:54                     ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-09  0:49               ` Dave Chinner
2020-04-09 12:40                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-10  0:27                   ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2020-04-07 18:29 ` [PATCH V6 7/8] fs/xfs: Change xfs_ioctl_setattr_dax_invalidate() to xfs_ioctl_dax_check() ira.weiny
2020-04-08  2:23   ` Dave Chinner
2020-04-08  9:58     ` Jan Kara
2020-04-08 21:09       ` Dave Chinner
2020-04-08 22:26         ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-08 23:48           ` Dave Chinner
2020-04-09 12:28             ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-08 15:37   ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-04-08 18:13     ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-16  5:39   ` [fs/xfs] 857c9841f8: xfstests.xfs.046.fail kernel test robot
2020-04-07 18:29 ` [PATCH V6 8/8] Documentation/dax: Update Usage section ira.weiny

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