linux-kernel - [RFC 2/2] mm, sl[aou]b: test whether kmalloc() alignment works as expected

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Message-Id: <20190319211108.15495-3-vbabka@suse.cz>
Date:   Tue, 19 Mar 2019 22:11:08 +0100
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Subject: [RFC 2/2] mm, sl[aou]b: test whether kmalloc() alignment works as expected

Quick and dirty init test that kmalloc() alignment works as expected for
power-of-two sizes after the previous patch.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
---
 mm/slab_common.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index e591d5688558..de10ca9640e0 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -1621,3 +1621,22 @@ int should_failslab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags)
 	return 0;
 }
 ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION(should_failslab, ERRNO);
+
+static int __init slab_kmalloc_test(void)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW; i <= KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH; i++) {
+		unsigned int size = 1 << i;
+		void * obj = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+		unsigned long objaddr = (unsigned long) obj;
+
+		printk("Size %u obj %px alignment: %s", size, obj,
+			(((objaddr & (size - 1)) == 0) ? "OK" : "WRONG"));
+		kfree(obj);
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+__initcall(slab_kmalloc_test);
-- 
2.21.0