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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kenneth.w.chen@intel.com
Subject: Re: disable-cap-mlock
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 17:07:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040401170705.Y22989@build.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040401135920.GF18585@dualathlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 03:59:20PM +0200

* Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de) 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?

This patch seems like the wrong hack to work around missing mlock rlimit
functionality.  Wouldn't it be better to fix the core problem, and leave
this patch out of mainline?  I agree with Rik, such a fix (mlock/rlimit)
will make all the gpg users feel warm and fuzzy ;-)

thanks,
-chris
-- 
Linux Security Modules     http://lsm.immunix.org     http://lsm.bkbits.net

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-02  1:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-01 13:59 disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 14:12 ` disable-cap-mlock Martin Zwickel
2004-04-01 16:48 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 16:59   ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 17:11     ` disable-cap-mlock Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-01 17:16     ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 17:34       ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 17:38         ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 17:42           ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 17:37       ` disable-cap-mlock Stephen Smalley
2004-04-01 17:44         ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 17:49           ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 17:51           ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 18:12             ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 17:52           ` disable-cap-mlock Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-01 17:54             ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 18:47               ` disable-cap-mlock Stephen Smalley
2004-04-01 19:26                 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 20:23                   ` disable-cap-mlock Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-01 21:13                     ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 21:31                       ` disable-cap-mlock Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-01 18:34       ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-01 18:49         ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 18:52         ` disable-cap-mlock Chen, Kenneth W
2004-04-01 18:59         ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 19:27         ` disable-cap-mlock James Morris
2004-04-02 10:39   ` disable-cap-mlock Pavel Machek
2004-04-02 23:44     ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-01 19:44 ` disable-cap-mlock Rik van Riel
2004-04-01 19:52   ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-01 22:36     ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 22:43       ` disable-cap-mlock Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-01 23:08       ` disable-cap-mlock Rik van Riel
2004-04-01 23:26         ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  0:59           ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-01 22:29   ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  1:07 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2004-04-02  1:18   ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  1:30     ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  1:35       ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  2:04         ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  2:13           ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  2:21             ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  2:38               ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  2:48                 ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  1:30   ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02  1:59     ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  2:09       ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  2:30         ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02  2:33           ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  2:45             ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02  2:51               ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02  3:21                 ` disable-cap-mlock William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-02  2:41           ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02  2:49             ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02  3:07               ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 21:35     ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02 22:36       ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-02 22:56         ` disable-cap-mlock Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 23:01         ` disable-cap-mlock Andrew Morton
2004-04-02 23:18           ` disable-cap-mlock Chris Wright
2004-04-05 12:13       ` disable-cap-mlock Stephen Smalley

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