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Andrey Ryabinin authored
The amount of pipe->buffers is basically controlled by userspace by
fcntl(... F_SETPIPE_SZ ...) so it could be large. High order allocations
could be slow (if memory is heavily fragmented) or may fail if the order
is larger than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER.

Since the 'bufs' doesn't need to be physically contiguous, use
the kvmalloc_array() to allocate memory. If high order
page isn't available, the kvamalloc*() will fallback to 0-order.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.