[PATCH RFC 1/1] dmaengine: ptdma: use SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU for the DMA descriptor slab
From: Eder Zulian
Date: Fri Apr 11 2025 - 15:42:49 EST
The SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU flag prevents a change of type for objects
allocated from the slab cache (although the memory may be reallocated to
a completetly different object of the same type.) Moreover, when the
last reference to an object is dropped the finalization code must not
run until all __rcu pointers referencing the object have been updated,
and then a grace period has passed.
Signed-off-by: Eder Zulian <ezulian@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dma/amd/ptdma/ptdma-dmaengine.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/dma/amd/ptdma/ptdma-dmaengine.c b/drivers/dma/amd/ptdma/ptdma-dmaengine.c
index 715ac3ae067b..b70dd1b0b9fb 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/amd/ptdma/ptdma-dmaengine.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/amd/ptdma/ptdma-dmaengine.c
@@ -597,7 +597,8 @@ int pt_dmaengine_register(struct pt_device *pt)
pt->dma_desc_cache = kmem_cache_create(desc_cache_name,
sizeof(struct pt_dma_desc), 0,
- SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL);
+ SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN |
+ SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, NULL);
if (!pt->dma_desc_cache) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto err_cache;
--
2.49.0