Revert "fs/pipe: use kvcalloc to allocate a pipe_buffer array"
This reverts commit 5a519c8f. It turns out that making the pipe almost arbitrarily large has some rather unexpected downsides. The kernel test robot reports a kernel warning that is due to pipe->max_usage now growing to the point where the iter_file_splice_write() buffer allocation can no longer be satisfied as a slab allocation, and the int nbufs = pipe->max_usage; struct bio_vec *array = kcalloc(nbufs, sizeof(struct bio_vec), GFP_KERNEL); code sequence there will now always fail as a result. That code could be modified to use kvcalloc() too, but I feel very uncomfortable making those kinds of changes for a very niche use case that really should have other options than make these kinds of fundamental changes to pipe behavior. Maybe the CRIU process dumping should be multi-threaded, and use multiple pipes and multiple cores, rather than try to use one larger pipe to minimize splice() calls. Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220420073717.GD16310@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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