Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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.
>
> You would probably want it to be per user. If you allow one page per
> process then you allow potentially 16Mb of lockable mmory per user 8(
>
> Patches accepted 8)
Well, I've never changed a line of code in the kernel (or in any
GPL product by the way) but I strolled thru the code and it seems the
right place to hack this woud be the capable() function. I wonder if
I could borrow some concepts from the quota system too, for the per-user
limit handling. Am I making any sense at all?
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