Re: [PATCH] mm/mincore: allow for making sys_mincore() privileged

[Jiri Kosina]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Dave Chinner wrote:

> Sounds nice from a theoretical POV, but reality has taught us very 
> different lessons.
> 
> FWIW, a quick check of XFS's history so you understand how long this 
> behaviour has been around. It was introduced in the linux port in 2001 
> as direct IO support was being added:
> 
> commit e837eac23662afae603aaaef7c94bc839c1b8f67
> Author: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
> Date:   Mon Mar 5 16:47:52 2001 +0000
> 
>     Add bounds checking for direct I/O, do the cache invalidation for
>     data coherency on direct I/O.

Out of curiosity, which repository is this from please? Even google 
doesn't seem to know about this SHA.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs