Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: use vcalloc/__vcalloc for very large allocations

On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 05:59:18 -0500 Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com wrote:

Allocations whose size is related to the memslot size can be arbitrarily large. Do not use kvzalloc/kvcalloc, as those are limited to "not crazy" sizes that fit in 32 bits. Now that it is available, they can use either vcalloc or __vcalloc, the latter if accounting is required.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Please fully describe the end user visible runtime effects when proposing a -stable backport. And when not proposing a -stable backport, come to that...