Re: [patch, 2.6.11-rc2] sched: /proc/sys/kernel/rt_cpu_limit tunable

[Chris Wright]

* Ingo Molnar (mingo@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> But if someone reviewed all of the rlimit use in the kernel, we could
> make it a policy that rlimits might change. Any unsafe use could be made
> safe pretty easily. Since they are ulongs they are updated atomically
> even without any locking - but e.g. the default and the hard limit might
> change separately. (from the viewpoint of rlimit-using kernel code.)

I can wade through them later in the week.

> obviously a remote rlimit must listen to same kind of security
> permissions as e.g. ptrace or signal sending.

Yeah.

thanks,
-chris
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