Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:24:25 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: allow huge kvmalloc() calls if they're accounted to memcg | From | Paolo Bonzini <> |
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On 18/10/21 17:19, Kees Cook wrote: > Ah, so memcg wasn't doing sanity checks? > > Is there a cheap way to resolve the question "does this much memory > exist"? The "__" versions end up lacking context for why they're "__" > versions. I.e. do we want something more descriptive, like > __huge_kvmalloc_node() or __unbounded_kvmalloc_node()?
No problem with that, I think "unbounded" is descriptive enough that we can remove the __ too. So that would be kvmalloc_node_unbounded / kvmalloc_array_unbounded / kvcallc_unbounded?
Paolo
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