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[Timur Tabi]

Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Timur> I see that function ibv_lock_range() in libibverbs calls
>     Timur> the mlock() system call. mlock() can only be called by a
>     Timur> process that has root privileges.  Does this mean the
>     Timur> user-space verbs support is only available to applications
>     Timur> that run as root?
> 
> Actually this isn't true.  Any process can call mlock() (try it and see).

Since when?

man mlock:

ERRORS

        EPERM  The  calling  process does not have appropriate
               privileges. Only root processes are allowed to lock pages.

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Timur Tabi
Staff Software Engineer
timur.tabi at ammasso.com