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authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2021-12-17 03:13:19 +0300
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2021-12-17 03:13:19 +0300
commit7cd2802d7496c1fc76f42dc045b48cc16d11df39 (patch)
tree41c33f5944bbc686a489801762eb126e07049b81 /include/uapi/linux/resource.h
parent0f473bb6ed2d0b8533a079ee133f625f83de5315 (diff)
parent6441998e2e37131b0a4c310af9156d79d3351c16 (diff)
downloadlinux-7cd2802d7496c1fc76f42dc045b48cc16d11df39.tar.xz
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
No conflicts. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/resource.h b/include/uapi/linux/resource.h
index 74ef57b38f9f..ac5d6a3031db 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/resource.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/resource.h
@@ -66,10 +66,17 @@ struct rlimit64 {
#define _STK_LIM (8*1024*1024)
/*
- * GPG2 wants 64kB of mlocked memory, to make sure pass phrases
- * and other sensitive information are never written to disk.
+ * Limit the amount of locked memory by some sane default:
+ * root can always increase this limit if needed.
+ *
+ * The main use-cases are (1) preventing sensitive memory
+ * from being swapped; (2) real-time operations; (3) via
+ * IOURING_REGISTER_BUFFERS.
+ *
+ * The first two don't need much. The latter will take as
+ * much as it can get. 8MB is a reasonably sane default.
*/
-#define MLOCK_LIMIT ((PAGE_SIZE > 64*1024) ? PAGE_SIZE : 64*1024)
+#define MLOCK_LIMIT (8*1024*1024)
/*
* Due to binary compatibility, the actual resource numbers