Re: [PATCH 07/10] crypto: Use ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN instead of ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 at 10:12, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:05:21AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >
> > I guess that should be fixable. GIven that this is about padding
> > rather than alignment, we could do something like
> >
> > struct crypto_request {
> >   union {
> >       struct {
> >         ... fields ...
> >       };
> >       u8 __padding[ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN];
> >    };
> >     void __ctx[]  __align(CRYPTO_MINALIGN);
> > };
> >
> > And then hopefully, we can get rid of the padding once we fix drivers
> > doing non-cache coherent inbound DMA into those structures.
>
> Sorry, I don't think this works.  kmalloc can still return something
> that's not ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN-aligned, and therefore __ctx won't be
> aligned correctly.
>

That is the whole point, really: ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN==128 does not mean
__ctx needs to be aligned to 128 bytes, it only means that it should
not share a 128 byte cacheline with the preceding fields. So if
kmalloc() returns buffers that are aligned to whatever alignment the
platform requires (which will be 64 in most cases), the above
arrangement ensures that, without requiring that CRYPTO_MINALIGN ==
ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN.