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From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
To: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Cgroups <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 09:22:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALvZod4odrSHAbizhxZggk3debNawz5gLph50f=xmJWS66iAwA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <722774d8-d46b-f8a6-a88e-3c56b4968622@virtuozzo.com>

On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 3:18 AM Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
>
> size of sem_undo can exceed one page and with the maximum possible
> nsems = 32000 it can grow up to 64Kb. Let's switch its allocation
> to kvmalloc to avoid user-triggered disruptive actions like OOM killer
> in case of high-order memory shortage.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>

Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-26 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <e67f2a95-4b01-9db2-fe47-0b2210f0b138@virtuozzo.com>
2021-04-26 10:18 ` [PATCH 0/2] ipc: allocations cleanup Vasily Averin
2021-04-28  7:35   ` [PATCH v2 " Vasily Averin
2021-04-28  7:35   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation Vasily Averin
2021-04-28  7:35   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel Vasily Averin
2021-04-26 10:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation Vasily Averin
2021-04-26 10:28   ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-26 16:22   ` Shakeel Butt [this message]
2021-04-26 20:29   ` Roman Gushchin
2021-04-26 10:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel Vasily Averin
2021-04-26 10:25   ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-28  5:15     ` Vasily Averin
2021-04-28  6:33       ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-26 16:23   ` Shakeel Butt
2021-04-26 20:29   ` Roman Gushchin

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