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The vmalloc guard pages are added on top of each allocation, thereby isolating any two allocations from one another. The top guard of the lower allocation is the bottom guard guard of the higher allocation etc. Therefore VM_NO_GUARD is dangerous; it breaks the basic premise of isolating separate allocations. There are only two in-tree users of this flag, neither of which use it through the exported interface. Ensure it stays this way. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YUMfdA36fuyZ+/xt@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.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.