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| author | Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> | 2006-03-01 01:58:57 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-01 05:53:43 +0100 |
| commit | 511030bcd24119fa3759ef3f914d354e107ef839 (patch) | |
| tree | 707edb2c804ad6c42ffbd0ef6685b49e076f0dcd /mm | |
| parent | [PATCH] x86 microcode driver vs hotplug CPUs. (diff) | |
| download | linux-511030bcd24119fa3759ef3f914d354e107ef839.tar.xz linux-511030bcd24119fa3759ef3f914d354e107ef839.zip | |
[PATCH] Fix sys_migrate_pages: Move all pages when invoked from root
Currently sys_migrate_pages only moves pages belonging to a process. This
is okay when invoked from a regular user. But if invoked from root it
should move all pages as documented in the migrate_pages manpage.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mempolicy.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index 67af4cea1e23..5643cfed6b0f 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -954,7 +954,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_migrate_pages(pid_t pid, unsigned long maxnode, goto out; } - err = do_migrate_pages(mm, &old, &new, MPOL_MF_MOVE); + err = do_migrate_pages(mm, &old, &new, + capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ? MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL : MPOL_MF_MOVE); out: mmput(mm); return err; |