linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/10] crypto: Use ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN instead of ARCH_KMALLOC

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Date:   Mon, 18 Jul 2022 18:53:43 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     Isaac Manjarres <isaacmanjarres@...gle.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>, kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/10] crypto: Use ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN instead of
 ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 11:25:35AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 03:23:25PM -0700, Isaac Manjarres wrote:
> > isn't present. So, the current behavior that crypto is relying on
> > wouldn't change, so I agree with Catalin that we wouldn't be lying to
> > the compiler if we move forward with getting rid of kmalloc-192.
> 
> There is no guarantee that crypto will always be allocating
> structures > 128 bytes.
> 
> But thanks for the reminder, I do need to push the patches along.

So do I but holidays get in the way ;). I plan to refresh my kmalloc
minalign series at the end of August.

One significant change I have though is that now ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
now goes down all the way to 8 and using swiotlb bounce buffering if the
DMA mapping size is small.

-- 
Catalin