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Patch series "provide the flexibility to enable KFENCE", v3. If CONFIG_CONTIG_ALLOC is not supported, we fallback to try alloc_pages_exact(). Allocating pages in this way has limits about MAX_ORDER (default 11). So we will not support allocating kfence pool after system startup with a large KFENCE_NUM_OBJECTS. When handling failures in kfence_init_pool_late(), we pair free_pages_exact() to alloc_pages_exact() for compatibility consideration, though it actually does the same as free_contig_range(). This patch (of 2): If once KFENCE is disabled by: echo 0 > /sys/module/kfence/parameters/sample_interval KFENCE could never be re-enabled until next rebooting. Allow re-enabling it by writing a positive num to sample_interval. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220307074516.6920-1-dtcccc@linux.alibaba.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220307074516.6920-2-dtcccc@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Tianchen Ding <dtcccc@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> 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.