<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 22 Mar 2018, at 23:54, Andrew Morton <<a href="mailto:akpm@linux-foundation.org" class="">akpm@linux-foundation.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Please add changelogs. An explanation of what a "limit on memory<br class="">region random shift" is would be nice ;) Why does it exist, why are we<br class="">doing this, etc. Surely there's something to be said - at present this<br class="">is just a lump of random code?<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Sorry, my bad. The main idea of this limit is to decrease possible memory </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">fragmentation. This is not so big problem on 64bit process, but really big for </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">32 bit processes since may cause failure memory allocation. To control memory </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">fragmentation and protect 32 bit systems (or architectures) this limit was </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">introduce by this patch. It could be also moved to CONFIG_ as well.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></body></html>