linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v1] devres: align devres.data strictly only for devm

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Date:   Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:45:35 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Alexey Brodkin <alexey.brodkin@...opsys.com>,
        Marc Gonzalez <marc.w.gonzalez@...e.fr>
Cc:     Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        Alexey Brodkin <alexey.brodkin@...opsys.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1] devres: align devres.data strictly only for
 devm_kmalloc()

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 04:30:54PM +0100, Marc Gonzalez wrote:
> Commit a66d972465d15 ("devres: Align data[] to ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN")
> increased the alignment of devres.data unconditionally.
> 
> Some platforms have very strict alignment requirements for DMA-safe
> addresses, e.g. 128 bytes on arm64. There, struct devres amounts to:
> 	3 pointers + pad_to_128 + data + pad_to_256
> i.e. ~220 bytes of padding.
> 
> Let's enforce the alignment only for devm_kmalloc().
> 
> Suggested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Gonzalez <marc.w.gonzalez@...e.fr>
> ---
> I had not been aware that dynamic allocation granularity on arm64 was
> 128 bytes. This means there's a lot of waste on small allocations.
> I suppose there's no easy solution, though.
> ---
>  drivers/base/devres.c | 23 +++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

You need to get Alexey to agree with this, he's the one that hit this on
ARC :)

thanks,

greg k-h