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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-12-11 08:46:52 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-12-11 08:46:52 -0800
commitdf442a4ec740864ff65cbfa7e71669603ddbe2af (patch)
tree3691f48c9c6eeafff08f31123ce1ae27f8f63d0f /include/uapi
parent6f513529296fd4f696afb4354c46508abe646541 (diff)
parent3c376dfafbf7a8ea0dea212d095ddd83e93280bb (diff)
downloadlinux-df442a4ec740864ff65cbfa7e71669603ddbe2af.tar.bz2
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton: "21 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: MAINTAINERS, mailmap, and mm (mlock, pagecache, damon, slub, memcg, hugetlb, and pagecache)" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (21 commits) mm: bdi: initialize bdi_min_ratio when bdi is unregistered hugetlbfs: fix issue of preallocation of gigantic pages can't work mm/memcg: relocate mod_objcg_mlstate(), get_obj_stock() and put_obj_stock() mm/slub: fix endianness bug for alloc/free_traces attributes selftests/damon: split test cases selftests/damon: test debugfs file reads/writes with huge count selftests/damon: test wrong DAMOS condition ranges input selftests/damon: test DAMON enabling with empty target_ids case selftests/damon: skip test if DAMON is running mm/damon/vaddr-test: remove unnecessary variables mm/damon/vaddr-test: split a test function having >1024 bytes frame size mm/damon/vaddr: remove an unnecessary warning message mm/damon/core: remove unnecessary error messages mm/damon/dbgfs: remove an unnecessary error message mm/damon/core: use better timer mechanisms selection threshold mm/damon/core: fix fake load reports due to uninterruptible sleeps timers: implement usleep_idle_range() filemap: remove PageHWPoison check from next_uptodate_page() mailmap: update email address for Guo Ren MAINTAINERS: update kdump maintainers ...
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
-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