The patch titled Subject: mm,hugetlb: remove mlock ulimit for SHM_HUGETLB has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mmhugetlb-remove-mlock-ulimit-for-shm_hugetlb.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mmhugetlb-remove-mlock-ulimit-for-shm_hugetlb.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mmhugetlb-remove-mlock-ulimit-for-shm_hugetlb.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: zhangyiru <zhangyiru3@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm,hugetlb: remove mlock ulimit for SHM_HUGETLB Remove mlock ulimit for SHM_HUGETLB. 2584e517320b ("mm: reintroduce and deprecate rlimit based access for SHM_HUGETLB") marked this as deprecated in 2012, but it is not deleted yet Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210904075458.51012-1-zhangyiru3@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: zhangyiru <zhangyiru3@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <wuxu.wu@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <liusirui@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 14 ++------------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) --- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c~mmhugetlb-remove-mlock-ulimit-for-shm_hugetlb +++ a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c @@ -1463,18 +1463,8 @@ struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const ch if (!mnt) return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); - if (creat_flags == HUGETLB_SHMFS_INODE && !can_do_hugetlb_shm()) { - *ucounts = current_ucounts(); - if (user_shm_lock(size, *ucounts)) { - task_lock(current); - pr_warn_once("%s (%d): Using mlock ulimits for SHM_HUGETLB is deprecated\n", - current->comm, current->pid); - task_unlock(current); - } else { - *ucounts = NULL; - return ERR_PTR(-EPERM); - } - } + if (creat_flags == HUGETLB_SHMFS_INODE && !can_do_hugetlb_shm()) + return ERR_PTR(-EPERM); file = ERR_PTR(-ENOSPC); inode = hugetlbfs_get_inode(mnt->mnt_sb, NULL, S_IFREG | S_IRWXUGO, 0); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from zhangyiru3@xxxxxxxxxx are mmhugetlb-remove-mlock-ulimit-for-shm_hugetlb.patch