Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: do not limit VmData with RLIMIT_DATA

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 10:39:40AM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> This partially reverts 84638335900f ("mm: rework virtual memory accounting")
> 
> Before that commit RLIMIT_DATA have control only over size of the brk region.
> But that change have caused problems with all existing versions of valgrind
> because they set RLIMIT_DATA to zero for some reason.
> 
> More over, current check has a major flaw: RLIMIT_DATA in bytes,
> not pages. So, some problems might have slipped through testing.
> Let's revert it for now and put back in next release.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151228211015.GL2194@uranus
> Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks great for me. Thanks a lot, Kostya!
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>