Re: mlockability
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
15 Sep 1999 20:32:48 GMT
Followup to: <14303.59058.692820.706785@dukat.scot.redhat.com>
By author: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > Couldn't there be a kernel option (maybe tunable by /proc/something)
> > through wich the kernel could grant a limited amount of mlock-able
> > memory for each non-root process? This could default to 0 but be
> > increased when sensitive software is being used.
>
> It needs to be per-user, not just per-process, but yes this would be a
> useful thing to do. The beancounter patches floating about already
> implement a lot of the necessary framework for this.
>
Also, presumably there is a good reason to have mlock() be a
capability.
-hpa
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