linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] - support inheritance of mlocks across fork/exec V2

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Date:	Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:12:49 -0400
From:	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, riel@...hat.com,
	hugh@...itas.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] - support inheritance of mlocks across fork/exec V2

On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 13:49 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 14:04 -0500, Lee Schermerhorn wrote:
> > 
> > > Add support for mlockall(MCL_INHERIT|MCL_RECURSIVE):
> > 
> > FWIW, I really liked this patch series. And I think there is still value
> > in a generic "mlock" wrapper utility that I can use. Sure, the later on
> > containers suggestions are all wonderful in theory but I don't see that
> > that went anywhere either (and I disagree that we can't trust people to
> > use this right without doing silly things) - if I'm really right that
> > this got dropped on the floor, can we resurrect it in .31 please?
> 
> I guess Lee is really really busy now.

Who isn't? :)

> Can you make V3 patch instead?

I'm happy to rebase onto a recent kernel and repost if it's not
something that's instantly going to get dropped on the floor. I thought
about this patch series a few minutes ago when I found myself
recompiling a certain piece of audio software and realized there's no
reason I shouldn't just be able to e.g. just do the following:

mlock --all -- pulseaudio --start --high-priority=1

As a test of my sanity in this case, but there are other times when I'm
running software on RT kernels and would love to have that as a wrapper
to temporarily prevent a performance hit.

Jon.


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