From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D6A03C433EF for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2022 08:54:17 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post: List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:References: Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID: List-Owner; bh=utJOPHh39u9w2ARSSLxzGM+iVNdw2JLP3b7QNaT515w=; b=u270MKkQ2Ivkh8 zMKnCsPCmfzkBwfLwv6Zym0sEv9ItkLPfcI65gMTWx3INsKVQ3dPfNuA8c6uWOCMhspPsH9FbfFaU nGXVweeIByLwXT/7kpNjY8nIcMNPx1QTeAKaBgU1FE6EFXgp8bfRmsxtH5ksgqT2HEPGudQK68PEU e+GYL2ZPVF8BHUimWk89aDPbyBeN7hzDpZv4nV+OboLwwHSLdWAexAwb9q9y0cAgaSuOYiWnr5Lhz VYEZWEIOZcHPjP6CdycxVojwConvYd1Axo7XAMGCeRr1/UmHASz+n/wTxeIo5KidT36WH22fyuhZP 3CSv0r68SMGU7M9U+LEA==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1nc1Pe-004phL-Ig; Wed, 06 Apr 2022 08:53:14 +0000 Received: from ams.source.kernel.org ([145.40.68.75]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1nc1Pb-004pfz-E9 for linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2022 08:53:12 +0000 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ams.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 00401B82045; Wed, 6 Apr 2022 08:53:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E7A69C385A5; Wed, 6 Apr 2022 08:53:05 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 09:53:02 +0100 From: Catalin Marinas To: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon , Marc Zyngier , Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cl@linux.com, vbabka@suse.cz, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, rientjes@google.com, penberg@kernel.org, roman.gushchin@linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] mm/slab: Decouple ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN from ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN Message-ID: References: <20220405135758.774016-1-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <20220405135758.774016-2-catalin.marinas@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20220406_015311_631717_C5355C8C X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 16.51 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 08:59:18AM +0900, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 02:57:49PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > In preparation for supporting a dynamic kmalloc() minimum alignment, > > allow architectures to define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN independently of > > ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN. In addition, always define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN even if > > an architecture does not override it. > > [ +Cc slab maintainer/reviewers ] > > I get why you want to set minimum alignment of kmalloc() dynamically. > That's because cache line size can be different and we cannot statically > know that, right? > > But I don't get why you are trying to decouple ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN > from ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN. kmalloc'ed buffer is always supposed to be DMA-safe. Arnd already replied. With this series, kmalloc'ed buffers are still DMA-safe for the SoC the kernel is running on. -- Catalin _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel