Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: fix warning caused by duplicate kmem_cache creation in kmem_buckets_create
From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Mon Nov 04 2024 - 13:18:58 EST
On 11/4/24 19:00, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 12:08:37AM +0900, Koichiro Den wrote:
>> Commit b035f5a6d852 ("mm: slab: reduce the kmalloc() minimum alignment
>> if DMA bouncing possible") reduced ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to 8 on arm64.
>> However, with KASAN_HW_TAGS enabled, arch_slab_minalign() becomes 16.
>> This causes kmalloc_caches[*][8] to be aliased to kmalloc_caches[*][16],
>> resulting in kmem_buckets_create() attempting to create a kmem_cache for
>> size 16 twice. This duplication triggers warnings on boot:
>
> Wouldn't this be easier?
They wanted it to depend on actual HW capability / kernel parameter, see
d949a8155d13 ("mm: make minimum slab alignment a runtime property")
Also Catalin's commit referenced above was part of the series that made the
alignment more dynamic for other cases IIRC. So I doubt we can simply reduce
it back to a build-time constant.
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
> @@ -33,7 +33,11 @@
> * the CPU.
> */
> #define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN (128)
> +#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS
> +#define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN (16)
> +#else
> #define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN (8)
> +#endif
>
> #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
>
>