From: Rob Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Lutz Vieweg <lkv@isg.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mlock() "bogus check" (locked > num_physpages/2) _does_ hurt!
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:14:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1071170077.13785.107.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FD8BE9D.9000701@isg.de>
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 13:59, Lutz Vieweg wrote:
> Is there any good reason to keep this check in the 2.4 kernel sources?
Not really.
> It's good to know the check is not present in the 2.6 sources, but I would
> like to get rid of it in 2.4, too...
It was removed from 2.6 for the reasons you cite. 2.4 could follow
suit.
It does lead to problems, though, where you can memlock too much memory
and lock the machine up. But we could file that under "don't do that".
Rob Love
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2003-12-11 18:59 mlock() "bogus check" (locked > num_physpages/2) _does_ hurt! Lutz Vieweg
2003-12-11 19:14 ` Rob Love [this message]
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