netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 35/35] perf: don't touch RLIMIT

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Date:   Mon, 27 Jul 2020 23:09:43 -0700
From:   Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:     bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 35/35] perf: don't touch RLIMIT_MEMLOCK

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 12:21 PM Roman Gushchin <guro@...com> wrote:
>
> Since bpf stopped using memlock rlimit to limit the memory usage,
> there is no more reason for perf to alter its own limit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
> ---

Cc'd Armaldo, but I'm guessing it's a similar situation that latest
perf might be running on older kernel and should keep working.

>  tools/perf/builtin-trace.c      | 10 ----------
>  tools/perf/tests/builtin-test.c |  6 ------
>  tools/perf/util/Build           |  1 -
>  tools/perf/util/rlimit.c        | 29 -----------------------------
>  tools/perf/util/rlimit.h        |  6 ------
>  5 files changed, 52 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/rlimit.c
>  delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/rlimit.h
>

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