Thread (54 messages) 54 messages, 7 authors, 2023-03-25

Re: [RFC PATCH 23/28] algif: Remove hash_sendpage*()

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2023-03-25 09:21:54
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On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 07:44:14AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
Okay.  Btw, how much of a hard limit is ALG_MAX_PAGES?  Multipage folios can
exceed the current limit (16 pages, 64K) in size.  Is it just to prevent too
much memory being pinned at once?
Yes, we don't want user-space to be able to pin an unlimited
amount of memory.

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