On 12/07/2016 07:39 AM, Federico Reghenzani wrote: > What I would like to have is a syscall that accept a "pid", so a process > spawned by root would be able to enforce the memory locking to other > non-root processes. The prototypes would be: > > int mlockall(int flags, pid_t pid); > int munlockall(pid_t pid); The prototypes don't really tell enough of the story to give you good feedback. For instance, whose rlimit do these count against? Are all the MCL_CURRENT/FUTURE/FAULT flags supported? I think you need to start implementing something to actually see how ugly this gets in practice. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>