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    mm: fix process_vm_rw page counts · 932b59e3
    York Jasper Niebuhr authored
    1. There is a "-1" missing in the page number calculation in
       process_vm_rw_core.  While this can't break anything, it can cause
       unnecessary allocations in certain cases:
    
       Consider handling an iovec ranging over PVM_MAX_PP_ARRAY_COUNT pages
       that is also aligned to a page boundary.  While pp_stack could hold
       references to such an amount of pinned pages, nr_pages yields
       (PVM_MAX_PP_ARRAY + 1) in process_vm_rw_core.  Consequently, a larger
       buffer is allocated with kmalloc for no reason.
    
       For any page boundary aligned iovec that is a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
       and larger than PVM_MAX_PP_ARRAY_COUNT pages, nr_pages will be too big
       by 1 and thus kmalloc allocates excess space for one more pointer.
    
    2. max_pages_per_loop is constant and there is no reason to have it as
       a variable.  A macro does the job just fine and saves memory.
    
    3. Replaced "sizeof(struct pages *)" with "sizeof(struct page *)" to
       have matching types for allocation and prevent confusion.
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231111184859.44264-1-yjnworkstation@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarYork Jasper Niebuhr <yjnworkstation@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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