Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean() vs non-linear vmas

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> I'm not at all happy with this, but plain disallowing remap_file_pages on bdis
> without BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK seems to offend some people, hence restrict it to
> root only.

I don't think that's a viable approach. Nonlinear mappings would normally 
be used by databases, and you don't want to limit databases to be run by 
root only.

		Linus
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