diff --git a/{{project-name}}/Cargo.toml b/{{project-name}}/Cargo.toml
index d06a00f..a869e6e 100644
--- a/{{project-name}}/Cargo.toml
+++ b/{{project-name}}/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,9 +13,7 @@ clap = { version = "4.1", features = ["derive"] }
 {{project-name}}-common = { path = "../{{project-name}}-common", features = ["user"] }
 anyhow = "1"
 env_logger = "0.10"
-{%- if program_type == "uprobe" %}
 libc = "0.2"
-{%- endif %}
 log = "0.4"
 tokio = { version = "1.25", features = ["macros", "rt", "rt-multi-thread", "net", "signal"] }
 
diff --git a/{{project-name}}/src/main.rs b/{{project-name}}/src/main.rs
index 5ef5328..ab87e39 100644
--- a/{{project-name}}/src/main.rs
+++ b/{{project-name}}/src/main.rs
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ use aya_log::BpfLogger;
 {% if program_types_with_opts contains program_type -%}
 use clap::Parser;
 {% endif -%}
-use log::{info, warn};
+use log::{info, warn, debug};
 use tokio::signal;
 
 {% if program_types_with_opts contains program_type -%}
@@ -71,6 +71,17 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), anyhow::Error> {
 {% endif %}
     env_logger::init();
 
+    // Bump the memlock rlimit. This is needed for older kernels that don't use the
+    // new memcg based accounting, see https://lwn.net/Articles/837122/
+    let rlim = libc::rlimit {
+        rlim_cur: libc::RLIM_INFINITY,
+        rlim_max: libc::RLIM_INFINITY,
+    };
+    let ret = unsafe { libc::setrlimit(libc::RLIMIT_MEMLOCK, &rlim) };
+    if ret != 0 {
+        debug!("remove limit on locked memory failed, ret is: {}", ret);
+    }
+
     // This will include your eBPF object file as raw bytes at compile-time and load it at
     // runtime. This approach is recommended for most real-world use cases. If you would
     // like to specify the eBPF program at runtime rather than at compile-time, you can