From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>, Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
"open list:XFS FILESYSTEM" <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>,
Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>, Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-block <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: allocate sector sized IO buffer via page_frag_alloc
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 09:18:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190308081807.GB12909@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <095ae112-f98e-9516-910a-43b49ea5bf0d@suse.cz>
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 08:07:31AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > I don't know _what_ Ming Lei is saying. I thought the problem was
> > with slab redzones, which need to be before and after each object,
> > but apparently the problem is with KASAN as well.
>
> That's what I thought as well. But if we can solve it for caches created
> by kmem_cache_create(..., align, ...) then IMHO we could guarantee
> natural alignment for power-of-two kmalloc caches as well.
Yes, having a version of kmalloc that guarantees power of two alignment
would be extremely helpful and avoid a lot of pointless boilerplate code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-08 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-25 4:09 [PATCH] xfs: allocate sector sized IO buffer via page_frag_alloc Ming Lei
2019-02-25 4:36 ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-25 8:46 ` Ming Lei
2019-02-25 10:03 ` Ming Lei
2019-02-25 20:11 ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-25 13:15 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-02-25 20:26 ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-26 2:22 ` Ming Lei
2019-02-26 3:02 ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-26 3:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-26 4:58 ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-26 9:33 ` Ming Lei
2019-02-26 10:06 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-02-26 10:06 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-02-26 11:12 ` Ming Lei
2019-02-26 12:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-26 12:35 ` Ming Lei
2019-02-26 13:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-26 13:42 ` Ming Lei
2019-02-26 14:04 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-26 16:14 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-02-26 16:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-27 1:41 ` Ming Lei
2019-02-27 7:07 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-03-08 8:18 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-02-27 21:38 ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-26 15:30 ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-26 20:45 ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-27 1:50 ` Ming Lei
2019-02-27 3:41 ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-26 15:20 ` Christopher Lameter
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