Re: disable-cap-mlock

From: Chris Wright (chrisw_at_osdl.org)
Date: 04/02/04

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To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>

    * Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de) wrote:
    > On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 06:08:18PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
    > > Oracle seems to be using it just fine in a certain 2.4
    > > based kernel, so why exactly do you think it would be
    > > useless for the problem you want to solve ?
    > >
    > > Also, what would need to be fixed in order for it to
    > > not be useless ? ;)
    >
    > tell me how to call shmget(SHM_HUGETLB) without having the CAP_IPC_LOCK
    > with the rlimit patch.

    Account for the equivalent "locked" huge pages on shmget. I did something
    like this when porting the mlock patch to 2.6 a month or so ago. I also
    recall finding a couple problems along the way, but it's been a while.
    I'll dig up what I have and send it in.

    thanks,
    -chris 

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