Re: disable-cap-mlock

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:48:25AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 03:59:20PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > Oracle needs this sysctl, I designed it and Ken Chen implemented it. I
> > guess google also won't dislike it.
> > This is a lot simpler than the mlock rlimit and this is people really
> > need (not the rlimit). The rlimit thing can still be applied on top of
> > this. This should be more efficient too (besides its simplicity).
> > can you apply to mainline?
> > 	http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.6/2.6.5-rc3-aa1/disable-cap-mlock-1
> 
> Something like this would have the minor advantage of zero core impact.
> Testbooted only. vs. 2.6.5-rc3-mm4

I certainly like this too (despite it's more complicated but it might
avoid us to have to add further sysctl in the future), Andrew what do
you prefer to merge? I don't mind either ways.
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