On 24.01.23 06:42, Alistair Popple wrote:
Kernel drivers that pin pages should account these pages against
either user->locked_vm or mm->pinned_vm and fail the pinning if
RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is exceeded and CAP_IPC_LOCK isn't held.
Currently drivers open-code this accounting and use various methods
> +/**
> + * vm_account_init - Initialise a new struct vm_account.
> + * @vm_account: pointer to uninitialised vm_account.
> + * @task: task to charge against.
> + * @user: user to charge against. Must be non-NULL for VM_ACCOUNT_USER.
> + * @flags: flags to use when charging to vm_account.
> + *
>
