On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 at 02:21 (-0800), Andrew Morton wrote:
> Marc-Jano Knopp <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > A year ago, I wrote a small mlockall()-wrapper ("noswap") to make
> > certain programs unswappable. It used to work perfectly, until I
> > upgraded to kernel 2.6.x (2.6.13.1 in my case, but that shouldn't
> > matter), which made the mlockall() execute without error, but also
> > without any effect (the "L" in the STAT column of "ps axf" which
> > indicates locked pages is missing).
> >
>
> Question is: what kernel version did you upgrade from?
2.4.31. Just rebooted to 2.4.31 and tried again - mlockall() seems to
work perfectly:
# ps axf|grep [9]99
1037 tty1 SL+ 0:00 \_ sleep 999
# uname -a
Linux pc8 2.4.31 #3 Thu Sep 8 16:49:45 CEST 2005 i686 unknown
#
> Prior to 2.4.18 the kernel would allow MCL_FUTURE to propagate into child
> processes. But that was disabled in 2.4.18 and later. I seem to recall
> that we did this because inheriting MCL_FUTURE is standards-incorrect.
Oh! So how can I make programs unswappable with kernel 2.6.x then?
Best regards
Marc-Jano
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