[PATCH v6 16/17] mm: slab: Reduce the kmalloc() minimum alignment if DMA bouncing possible

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed May 31 08:48:35 PDT 2023


If an architecture opted in to DMA bouncing of unaligned kmalloc()
buffers (ARCH_WANT_KMALLOC_DMA_BOUNCE), reduce the minimum kmalloc()
cache alignment below cache-line size to ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
---
 mm/slab_common.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index 7c6475847fdf..fe46459a8b77 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/seq_file.h>
 #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
+#include <linux/swiotlb.h>
 #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
 #include <linux/debugfs.h>
 #include <linux/kasan.h>
@@ -863,10 +864,19 @@ void __init setup_kmalloc_cache_index_table(void)
 	}
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DMA_BOUNCE_UNALIGNED_KMALLOC
+static unsigned int __kmalloc_minalign(void)
+{
+	if (io_tlb_default_mem.nslabs)
+		return ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN;
+	return dma_get_cache_alignment();
+}
+#else
 static unsigned int __kmalloc_minalign(void)
 {
 	return dma_get_cache_alignment();
 }
+#endif
 
 void __init
 new_kmalloc_cache(int idx, enum kmalloc_cache_type type, slab_flags_t flags)



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