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Right now, kcalloc is used to allocate a pipe_buffer array. The size of the pipe_buffer struct is 40 bytes. kcalloc allows allocating reliably chunks with sizes less or equal to PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER (3). It means that the maximum pipe size is 3.2MB in this case. In CRIU, we use pipes to dump processes memory. CRIU freezes a target process, injects a parasite code into it and then this code splices memory into pipes. If a maximum pipe size is small, we need to do many iterations or create many pipes. kvcalloc attempt to allocate physically contiguous memory, but upon failure, fall back to non-contiguous (vmalloc) allocation and so it isn't limited by PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER. The maximum pipe size for non-root users is limited by the /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size sysctl that is 1MB by default, so only the root user will be able to trigger vmalloc allocations. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220104171058.22580-1-avagin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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.