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authorThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>2021-12-17 11:33:33 +0100
committerThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>2021-12-17 11:33:33 +0100
commit1758047057dbe329be712a31b79db7151b5871f8 (patch)
tree00203eb55328f2feda70b3d37c964287b364796f /include/uapi/linux/resource.h
parentbcae3af286f49bf4f6cda03f165fbe530f4a6bed (diff)
parent1c405ca11bf563de1725e5ecfb4a74ee289d2ee9 (diff)
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next-fixes
Backmerging to bring drm-misc-next-fixes up to the latest state for the current release cycle. Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
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