Commit 20443384 authored Mar 31, 2011 by Frederic Weisbecker Committed by Ingo Molnar Mar 31, 2011

perf: Rebase max unprivileged mlock threshold on top of page size



Ensure we allow 512 kiB + 1 page for user control without
assuming a 4096 bytes page size.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1301535209-9679-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

parent 652d78fd

kernel/perf_event.c

+2 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ static struct srcu_struct pmus_srcu;
		*/
		int sysctl_perf_event_paranoid __read_mostly = 1;

		/* Minimum for 128 pages + 1 for the user control page */
		int sysctl_perf_event_mlock __read_mostly = 516; /* 'free' kb per user */
		/* Minimum for 512 kiB + 1 user control page */
		int sysctl_perf_event_mlock __read_mostly = 512 + (PAGE_SIZE / 1024); /* 'free' kiB per user */

		/*
		* max perf event sample rate

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