[PATCH 5/6] riscv: allow kmalloc() caches aligned to the smallest value

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue May 30 02:59:41 PDT 2023


On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 12:17:46PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 12:59:57AM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> > After this patch, a simple test of booting to a small buildroot rootfs
> > on qemu shows:
> > 
> > kmalloc-96           5041    5041     96  ...
> > kmalloc-64           9606    9606     64  ...
> > kmalloc-32           5128    5128     32  ...
> > kmalloc-16           7682    7682     16  ...
> > kmalloc-8           10246   10246      8  ...
> > 
> > So we save about 1268KB memory. The saving will be much larger in normal
> > OS env on real HW platforms.
> > 
> > [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20230524171904.3967031-1-catalin.marinas@arm.com/
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at kernel.org>
> 
> Fails to build chief, with loads of:
> linux/dma-mapping.h:546:19: error: redefinition of 'dma_get_cache_alignment'
> 
> And for 32-bit there's also a rake of:
> include/linux/slab.h:239:9: warning: 'ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN' macro redefined [-Wmacro-redefined]
> 
> At the very least, reproducable with rv32_defconfig.

Have you this it on top of the KMALLOC_MINALIGN preparation series?

https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230524171904.3967031-1-catalin.marinas@arm.com/

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Catalin



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