On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 06:02:14PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: > ALLPHYSICAL is not a safe memory registration mode because it > permits NFS servers to write anywhere in a client's memory. NFS > server bugs could result in client memory being overwritten. > > This can be useful for embedded systems which do not support more > surgical RDMA memory registration and protection methods, or for > bring-up of new HCA hardware. > > However, enterprise Linux distributions have expressed a desire to > disable it in production environments. It's just as unsafe in embedded devices. I think it should go -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html