forked from Minki/linux
mainlining shenanigans
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The limit for memory locked in the kernel by a process is usually set to 64 kbytes by default. This can be an issue when creating large BPF maps and/or loading many programs. A workaround is to raise this limit for the current process before trying to create a new BPF map. Changing the hard limit requires the CAP_SYS_RESOURCE and can usually only be done by root user (for non-root users, a call to setrlimit fails (and sets errno) and the program simply goes on with its rlimit unchanged). There is no API to get the current amount of memory locked for a user, therefore we cannot raise the limit only when required. One solution, used by bcc, is to try to create the map, and on getting a EPERM error, raising the limit to infinity before giving another try. Another approach, used in iproute2, is to raise the limit in all cases, before trying to create the map. Here we do the same as in iproute2: the rlimit is raised to infinity before trying to load programs or to create maps with bpftool. Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com> Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> |
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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.