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When creating a handle, it is just that, an abstract handle. The fact that we cannot currently support a handle larger than the size of the backing storage is an artifact of our whole-object-at-a-time handling in get_pages() and being an implementation limitation is best handled at that point -- similar to shmem, where we only barf when asked to populate the whole object if larger than RAM. (Pinning the whole object at a time is major hindrance that we are likely to have to overcome in the near future.) In the case of the buddy allocator, the late check is preferable as the request size may often be smaller than the required size. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191216122603.2598155-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.