add RLIMIT_AS alternative to wishlist

2018-12-09 12:47:02 -05:00 · 2018-12-09 12:47:02 -05:00 · 418cb1609c
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@ -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