Re: Handling large allocations (bypassing mm?)

2022-12-22 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 at 18:55, Robbie Harwood wrote: > > Ard Biesheuvel writes: > > > As for supporing kernels from 2012: I don't see why upstream GRUB > > should care about that. If your distro fork supports those today, you > > will simply need to carry those patches out of tree a bit longer. >

Re: Handling large allocations (bypassing mm?)

2022-12-16 Thread Robbie Harwood
Ard Biesheuvel writes: > As for supporing kernels from 2012: I don't see why upstream GRUB > should care about that. If your distro fork supports those today, you > will simply need to carry those patches out of tree a bit longer. No, it's not a question of distros supporting themselves like

Re: Handling large allocations (bypassing mm?)

2022-12-15 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 at 15:29, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 04:11:18PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote: > > Adding a few folks who may be interested in this discussion too... > > > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 02:21:49PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > so I

Re: Handling large allocations (bypassing mm?)

2022-12-15 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 04:11:18PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote: > Adding a few folks who may be interested in this discussion too... > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 02:21:49PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > Hi, > > > > so I want to bring this discussion here that I had mostly with myself > > in

Re: Handling large allocations (bypassing mm?)

2022-12-14 Thread Daniel Kiper
Adding a few folks who may be interested in this discussion too... On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 02:21:49PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Hi, > > so I want to bring this discussion here that I had mostly with myself > in the past days on IRC. > > As some of you know, we had a couple issues with

Handling large allocations (bypassing mm?)

2022-12-14 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Hi, so I want to bring this discussion here that I had mostly with myself in the past days on IRC. As some of you know, we had a couple issues with large initrds in Ubuntu, Jeremy posted a patch series earlier about mmunlimited. I wanted to propose a more fine-grained approach, as well as a