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authorRodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>2022-01-31 13:19:33 -0500
committerRodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>2022-01-31 13:19:33 -0500
commit063565aca3734de4e73639a0e460a58d9418b3cd (patch)
treefb2455b984f584a819defe6e5fe512a4b6fc33ae /include/uapi/linux/resource.h
parent14683babf8ee356a232ee76b0acd332aef51fdc4 (diff)
parent26291c54e111ff6ba87a164d85d4a4e134b7315c (diff)
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next
Catch-up with 5.17-rc2 and trying to align with drm-intel-gt-next for a possible topic branch for merging the split of i915_regs... Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/resource.h')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/resource.h13
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