perf_counter: per user mlock gift

Instead of a per-process mlock gift for perf-counters, use a
per-user gift so that there is less of a DoS potential.

[ Impact: allow less worst-case unprivileged memory consumption ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090515132018.496182835@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index d1857580a132..ff59d1231519 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -674,6 +674,10 @@ struct user_struct {
         struct work_struct work;
 #endif
 #endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS
+        atomic_long_t locked_vm;
+#endif
 };
 
 extern int uids_sysfs_init(void);