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This limit has not been updated since 2008, when it was increased to 64 KiB at the request of GnuPG. Until recently, the main use-cases for this feature were (1) preventing sensitive memory from being swapped, as in GnuPG's use-case; and (2) real-time use-cases. In the first case, little memory is called for, and in the second case, the user is generally in a position to increase it if they need more. The introduction of IOURING_REGISTER_BUFFERS adds a third use-case: preparing fixed buffers for high-performance I/O. This use-case will take as much of this memory as it can get, but is still limited to 64 KiB by default, which is very little. This increases the limit to 8 MB, which was chosen fairly arbitrarily as a more generous, but still conservative, default value. It is also possible to raise this limit in userspace. This is easily done, for example, in the use-case of a network daemon: systemd, for instance, provides for this via LimitMEMLOCK in the service file; OpenRC via the rc_ulimit variables. However, there is no established userspace facility for configuring this outside of daemons: end-user applications do not presently have access to a convenient means of raising their limits. The buck, as it were, stops with the kernel. It's much easier to address it here than it is to bring it to hundreds of distributions, and it can only realistically be relied upon to be high-enough by end-user software if it is more-or-less ubiquitous. Most distros don't change this particular rlimit from the kernel-supplied default value, so a change here will easily provide that ubiquity. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211028080813.15966-1-sir@cmpwn.com Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Acked-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Andrew Dona-Couch <andrew@donacou.ch> Cc: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.