On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 17:22 +0200, sej.kernel wrote:
> Hello,
> I need to use mlock and munlock function into a kernel module. How so
> I call this system call from my module ?
no it's a bug if you need to do that
> I need to do this because I must use mlock in my software, but I can't
> use root or suser to start it. So mlock alwaays fail.
that's an rlimit thing, just fix the rlimit on your system.
Also if you want to do this for pinning hardware at a physical address
you have a really wrong design (mlock is the wrong api) which also
includes a security hole btw
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