[PATCH] perf: Rebase max unprivileged mlock threshold on top of page size

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Wed Mar 30 2011 - 10:04:43 EST


So that we ensure we allow 129 pages, even if the page size is
different than 4096.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/perf_event.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index c75925c..fce1b8a 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ static struct srcu_struct pmus_srcu;
int sysctl_perf_event_paranoid __read_mostly = 1;

/* Minimum for 128 pages + 1 for the user control page */
-int sysctl_perf_event_mlock __read_mostly = 516; /* 'free' kb per user */
+int sysctl_perf_event_mlock __read_mostly = (129 * PAGE_SIZE) / 1024; /* 'free' kb per user */

/*
* max perf event sample rate
--
1.7.3.2

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