On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 12:19 -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > It might be, but you need CAP_SYS_RESOURCE to go into the dangerous > zone (>pipe_max_size). > > So if root (or someone with that cap) wants to go there, as Rusty says: > "Root asked, we do."
Yes and no : adding a test to select vmalloc()/vfree() instead of kmalloc()/kfree() will slow down regular users asking 32 pages in their pipe. If there is no _sensible_ use for large pipes even for root, please do not bloat the code just because we can. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
