Re: [PATCH 01/10] mm/slab: Decouple ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN from ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN

[Hyeonggon Yoo]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 02:57:49PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> In preparation for supporting a dynamic kmalloc() minimum alignment,
> allow architectures to define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN independently of
> ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN. In addition, always define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN even if
> an architecture does not override it.
> 
> After this patch, ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN is expected to be used in static
> alignment annotations and defined by an architecture to be the maximum
> alignment for all supported configurations/SoCs in a single Image.
> ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, if different, is the minimum alignment guaranteed
> by kmalloc().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/slab.h | 23 ++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
> index 373b3ef99f4e..d58211bdeceb 100644
> --- a/include/linux/slab.h
> +++ b/include/linux/slab.h
> @@ -187,17 +187,30 @@ bool kmem_valid_obj(void *object);
>  void kmem_dump_obj(void *object);
>  #endif
>  
> +/*
> + * slob does not support independent control of ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN and
> + * ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN.
> + */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SLOB
> +#undef ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
> +#endif
> +
>  /*
>   * Some archs want to perform DMA into kmalloc caches and need a guaranteed
>   * alignment larger than the alignment of a 64-bit integer.
> - * Setting ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN in arch headers allows that.
> + * Setting ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN in arch headers allows that.
>   */
> -#if defined(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN) && ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN > 8
> +#ifndef ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
> +#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN __alignof__(unsigned long long)
> +#elif ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN > 8 && !defined(ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN)
>  #define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
> -#define KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
> -#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW ilog2(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN)
> -#else
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifndef ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
>  #define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN __alignof__(unsigned long long)
> +#else
> +#define KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
> +#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW ilog2(KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE)
>  #endif
>  
>  /*
>

Sorry for the noise I made due to misunderstanding :)
Now this patch looks good to me and I think it's worth adding.

Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@xxxxxxxxx>

and works fine with SLAB/SLOB/SLUB on my arm64 machine.

Tested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

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Thanks,
Hyeonggon