From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Raul Miller <moth@magenta.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: guarantee_memory() syscall?
Date: 29 Oct 2000 06:31:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1n1fn7ozi.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <972824256.eb26eb5e@magenta.com>
In-Reply-To: Raul Miller's message of "Sun, 29 Oct 2000 08:03:35 -0500"
Raul Miller <moth@magenta.com> writes:
> Can anyone tell me about the viability of a guarantee_memory() syscall?
>
> [I'm thinking: it would either kill the process, or allocate all virtual
> memory needed for its shared libraries, buffers, allocated memory, etc.
> Furthermore, it would render this process immune to the OOM killer,
> unless it allocated further memory.]
Except for the OOM killer semantics mlockall already exists.
Eric
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-29 13:03 guarantee_memory() syscall? Raul Miller
2000-10-29 13:31 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2000-10-29 18:34 ` James Sutherland
2000-10-29 14:56 ` Alan Cox
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