Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 30/35] bpf: bpftool: do not touch RLIMIT_MEMLOCK

[Andrii Nakryiko]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 12:21 PM Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Since bpf stopped using memlock rlimit to limit the memory usage,
> there is no more reason for bpftool to alter its own limits.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> ---

This can't be removed either, due to old kernel support. We probably
should have a helper function to probe RLIMIT_MEMLOCK use by BPF
subsystem, though, and not call set_max_rlimit() is not necessary.

>  tools/bpf/bpftool/common.c     | 7 -------
>  tools/bpf/bpftool/feature.c    | 2 --
>  tools/bpf/bpftool/main.h       | 2 --
>  tools/bpf/bpftool/map.c        | 2 --
>  tools/bpf/bpftool/pids.c       | 1 -
>  tools/bpf/bpftool/prog.c       | 3 ---
>  tools/bpf/bpftool/struct_ops.c | 2 --
>  7 files changed, 19 deletions(-)
>

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