On Tue Nov 16, 2021 at 5:35 AM CET, Andrew Morton wrote: > Unfortunately I didn't know about this until Nov 4, which was formally > too late for 5.16. I guess I could try to sneak it past Linus if > someone were to send me some sufficiently convincing words explaining > the urgency. I don't think it's that urgent, but I also wouldn't protest if someone wants to usher it in sooner rather than later. > And a question: rather than messing around with a constant which will > need to be increased again in a couple of years, can we solve this one > and for all? For example, permit root to set the system-wide > per-process max mlock size and depend upon initscripts to do this > appropriately. Not sure I understand. Root and init scripts can already manage this number - the goal of this patch is just to provide a saner default.
