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The struct is giant, and triggers an order-7 allocation (512K). There is no reason for this to be kmalloc-type memory, so switch to vmalloc. This should help loading nouveau on low-memory and/or long-running systems. Reported-by: Nathan E. Egge <unlord@xiph.org> Signed-off-by: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Karol Herbst <kherbst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Karol Herbst <kherbst@redhat.com> Link: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/nouveau/-/merge_requests/10
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.
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.