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1. There is a "-1" missing in the page number calculation in process_vm_rw_core. While this can't break anything, it can cause unnecessary allocations in certain cases: Consider handling an iovec ranging over PVM_MAX_PP_ARRAY_COUNT pages that is also aligned to a page boundary. While pp_stack could hold references to such an amount of pinned pages, nr_pages yields (PVM_MAX_PP_ARRAY + 1) in process_vm_rw_core. Consequently, a larger buffer is allocated with kmalloc for no reason. For any page boundary aligned iovec that is a multiple of PAGE_SIZE and larger than PVM_MAX_PP_ARRAY_COUNT pages, nr_pages will be too big by 1 and thus kmalloc allocates excess space for one more pointer. 2. max_pages_per_loop is constant and there is no reason to have it as a variable. A macro does the job just fine and saves memory. 3. Replaced "sizeof(struct pages *)" with "sizeof(struct page *)" to have matching types for allocation and prevent confusion. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231111184859.44264-1-yjnworkstation@gmail.com Signed-off-by: York Jasper Niebuhr <yjnworkstation@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
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.