The kernel's default behaviour is to obstruct the allocation of high virtual address as it handles memory overcommit in a heuristic manner. Setting the parameter as OVERCOMMIT_ALWAYS, ensures kernel isn't susceptible to the availability of a platform's physical memory when denying a memory allocation request. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230323060121.1175830-4-chaitanyas.prakash@arm.com Signed-off-by: Chaitanya S Prakash <chaitanyas.prakash@arm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
||
|---|---|---|
| .. | ||
| crypto/chacha20-s390 | ||
| cxl | ||
| fault-injection | ||
| ktest | ||
| kunit | ||
| memblock | ||
| nvdimm | ||
| radix-tree | ||
| scatterlist | ||
| selftests | ||
| vsock | ||