On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:09:24AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > I don't think the registering of ram should be done via sysfs. That would > be a pretty bad interface IMHO. But I do think the functionality that > ksmctl provides along with the security issues I mentioned earlier really > suggest that there ought to be a separate API for control vs. registration > and that control API would make a lot of sense as a sysfs API. > > If you wanted to explore alternative APIs for registration, madvise() seems > like the obvious candidate to me. > > madvise(start, size, MADV_SHARABLE) seems like a pretty obvious API to me. madvise to me would sound appropriate, only if ksm would be always-in, which is not the case as it won't even be built if it's configured to N. Besides madvise is sus covered syscall, and this is linux specific detail. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
