From 418cb1609cbcc62e837b8d3e63c1186faa288c3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Micay Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 12:47:02 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] add RLIMIT_AS alternative to wishlist --- KERNEL_FEATURE_WISHLIST.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/KERNEL_FEATURE_WISHLIST.md b/KERNEL_FEATURE_WISHLIST.md index d6b7a11..8fb91c6 100644 --- a/KERNEL_FEATURE_WISHLIST.md +++ b/KERNEL_FEATURE_WISHLIST.md @@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ Very important and should be an easy sell: Somewhat important and an easy sell: +* alternative to `RLIMIT_AS` for accountable mappings only + * memory control groups are sometimes a better option but there are still + users of `RLIMIT_AS` that are problematic for mitigations or simply fast + garbage collector implementations, etc. mapping lots of `PROT_NONE` memory * mremap flag to disable unmapping the source mapping * also needed by jemalloc for different reasons * not needed if the kernel gets first class support for arbitrarily sized