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Vlastimil Babka authored
Slab allocators have been guaranteeing natural alignment for power-of-two sizes since commit 59bb4798 ("mm, sl[aou]b: guarantee natural alignment for kmalloc(power-of-two)"), while any other sizes are guaranteed to be aligned only to ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN bytes (although in practice are aligned more than that in non-debug scenarios). Rust's allocator API specifies size and alignment per allocation, which have to satisfy the following rules, per Alice Ryhl [1]: 1. The alignment is a power of two. 2. The size is non-zero. 3. When you round up the size to the next multiple of the alignment, then it must not overflow the signed type isize / ssize_t. In order to map this to kmalloc()'s guarantees, some requested allocation sizes have to be padded to the next power-of-two size [2]. For example, an allocation of size 96 and alignment of 32 will be padded to an allocation of size 128, because the existing kmalloc-96 bucket doesn't guarantee alignent above ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN. Without slab debugging active, the layout of the kmalloc-96 slabs however naturally align the objects to 32 bytes, so extending the size to 128 bytes is wasteful. To improve the situation we can extend the kmalloc() alignment guarantees in a way that 1) doesn't change the current slab layout (and thus does not increase internal fragmentation) when slab debugging is not active 2) reduces waste in the Rust allocator use case 3) is a superset of the current guarantee for power-of-two sizes. The extended guarantee is that alignment is at least the largest power-of-two divisor of the requested size. For power-of-two sizes the largest divisor is the size itself, but let's keep this case documented separately for clarity. For current kmalloc size buckets, it means kmalloc-96 will guarantee alignment of 32 bytes and kmalloc-196 will guarantee 64 bytes. This covers the rules 1 and 2 above of Rust's API as long as the size is a multiple of the alignment. The Rust layer should now only need to round up the size to the next multiple if it isn't, while enforcing the rule 3. Implementation-wise, this changes the alignment calculation in create_boot_cache(). While at it also do the calulation only for caches with the SLAB_KMALLOC flag, because the function is also used to create the initial kmem_cache and kmem_cache_node caches, where no alignment guarantee is necessary. In the Rust allocator's krealloc_aligned(), remove the code that padded sizes to the next power of two (suggested by Alice Ryhl) as it's no longer necessary with the new guarantees. Reported-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Reported-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAH5fLggjrbdUuT-H-5vbQfMazjRDpp2%2Bk3%3DYhPyS17ezEqxwcw@mail.gmail.com/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAH5fLghsZRemYUwVvhk77o6y1foqnCeDzW4WZv6ScEWna2+_jw@mail.gmail.com/ [2] Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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