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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 2/6] slub: add kmalloc_align()
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Lai Jiangshan wrote:

> diff --git a/include/linux/slub_def.h b/include/linux/slub_def.h
> index a32bcfd..67ac6b4 100644
> --- a/include/linux/slub_def.h
> +++ b/include/linux/slub_def.h
> @@ -280,6 +280,12 @@ static __always_inline void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
> return __kmalloc(size, flags);
> }
>
> +static __always_inline
> +void *kmalloc_align(size_t size, gfp_t flags, size_t align)
> +{
> + return kmalloc(ALIGN(size, align), flags);
> +}

This assumes that kmalloc allocates aligned memory. Which it does only
in special cases (power of two cache and debugging off).

> #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> void *__kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node);
> void *kmem_cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t flags, int node);
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 4907563..01cf99d 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -3238,7 +3238,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache *__init create_kmalloc_cache(const char *name,
> * This function is called with IRQs disabled during early-boot on
> * single CPU so there's no need to take slub_lock here.
> */
> - if (!kmem_cache_open(s, name, size, ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN,
> + if (!kmem_cache_open(s, name, size, ALIGN_OF_LAST_BIT(size),
> flags, NULL))
> goto panic;

Why does the alignment of struct kmem_cache change? I'd rather have a
__alignof__(struct kmem_cache) here with alignment specified with the
struct definition.



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