linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/8] mm/slub, percpu: correct the calculation of early percpu allocation size

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Message-ID: <Y2iLLIL/jBL4dftJ@MiWiFi-R3L-srv>
Date:   Mon, 7 Nov 2022 12:35:56 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
        Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] mm/slub, percpu: correct the calculation of early
 percpu allocation size

On 11/06/22 at 09:56pm, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 10/24/22 10:14, Baoquan He wrote:
> > SLUB allocator relies on percpu allocator to initialize its ->cpu_slab
> > during early boot. For that, the dynamic chunk of percpu which serves
> > the early allocation need be large enough to satisfy the kmalloc
> > creation.
> > 
> > However, the current BUILD_BUG_ON() in alloc_kmem_cache_cpus() doesn't
> > consider the kmalloc array with NR_KMALLOC_TYPES length. Fix that
> > with correct calculation.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
> > Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
> > Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
> > Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> > Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> > Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>
> > Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>
> > ---
> >  mm/slub.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> As only slub is touched and there's no prerequsities in the previous
> patches, I took this to the slab tree, branch
> slab/for-6.2/cleanups

Yes, it only changes slub code. Thanks for taking it.

I will resend v2 with the left 7 percpu only patches with update.