On Wed 19-10-16 10:23:55, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 10/19/2016 10:01 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > > The question I had earlier was whether this has to be an explicit FOLL > > flag used by g-u-p users or we can just use it internally when mm != > > current->mm > > The reason I chose not to do that was that deferred work gets run under > a basically random 'current'. If we just use 'mm != current->mm', then > the deferred work will sometimes have pkeys enforced and sometimes not, > basically randomly. OK, I see (async_pf_execute and ksm ). It makes more sense to me. Thanks for the clarification. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs