fs/pipe: use kvcalloc to allocate a pipe_buffer array
Right now, kcalloc is used to allocate a pipe_buffer array. The size of
the pipe_buffer struct is 40 bytes. kcalloc allows allocating reliably
chunks with sizes less or equal to PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER (3). It
means that the maximum pipe size is 3.2MB in this case.
In CRIU, we use pipes to dump processes memory. CRIU freezes a target
process, injects a parasite code into it and then this code splices
memory into pipes. If a maximum pipe size is small, we need to do many
iterations or create many pipes.
kvcalloc attempt to allocate physically contiguous memory, but upon
failure, fall back to non-contiguous (vmalloc) allocation and so it
isn't limited by PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER.
The maximum pipe size for non-root users is limited by the
/proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size sysctl that is 1MB by default, so only the
root user will be able to trigger vmalloc allocations.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220104171058.22580-1-avagin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>