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Subject[049/105] perf: Rebase max unprivileged mlock threshold on top of page size
2.6.38-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

commit 20443384fe090c5f8aeb016e7e85659c5bbdd69f upstream.

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>
LKML-Reference: <1301535209-9679-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
kernel/perf_event.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ 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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