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authorPeter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>2022-05-09 18:20:53 -0700
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2022-05-13 07:20:07 -0700
commitd949a8155d139aa890795b802004a196b7f00598 (patch)
treef4f44a8b94c40c132e6832035a8cd3a43adcc5e1 /include/linux/slab.h
parent534aa1dc975ac883ad89110534585a96630802a0 (diff)
mm: make minimum slab alignment a runtime property
When CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS is enabled we currently increase the minimum slab alignment to 16. This happens even if MTE is not supported in hardware or disabled via kasan=off, which creates an unnecessary memory overhead in those cases. Eliminate this overhead by making the minimum slab alignment a runtime property and only aligning to 16 if KASAN is enabled at runtime. On a DragonBoard 845c (non-MTE hardware) with a kernel built with CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS, waiting for quiescence after a full Android boot I see the following Slab measurements in /proc/meminfo (median of 3 reboots): Before: 169020 kB After: 167304 kB [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make slab alignment type `unsigned int' to avoid casting] Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I752e725179b43b144153f4b6f584ceb646473ead Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220427195820.1716975-2-pcc@google.com Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Tested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/slab.h')
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diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 373b3ef99f4e..3d2f2a3ca17e 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -210,6 +210,18 @@ void kmem_dump_obj(void *object);
#endif
/*
+ * Arches can define this function if they want to decide the minimum slab
+ * alignment at runtime. The value returned by the function must be a power
+ * of two and >= ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN.
+ */
+#ifndef arch_slab_minalign
+static inline unsigned int arch_slab_minalign(void)
+{
+ return ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN;
+}
+#endif
+
+/*
* kmalloc and friends return ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN aligned
* pointers. kmem_cache_alloc and friends return ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN
* aligned pointers.