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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2023 19:47:40 +0100
From: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
To: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>
Cc: andrey.konovalov@...ux.dev,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@...gle.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 14/20] mempool: introduce mempool_use_prealloc_only
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 at 19:06, Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 6:21 PM Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 09:10PM +0100, andrey.konovalov@...ux.dev wrote:
> > > From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
> > >
> > > Introduce a new mempool_use_prealloc_only API that tells the mempool to
> > > only use the elements preallocated during the mempool's creation and to
> > > not attempt allocating new ones.
> > >
> > > This API is required to test the KASAN poisoning/unpoisoning functinality
> > > in KASAN tests, but it might be also useful on its own.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
> > > ---
> > > include/linux/mempool.h | 2 ++
> > > mm/mempool.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> > > 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/mempool.h b/include/linux/mempool.h
> > > index 4aae6c06c5f2..822adf1e7567 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/mempool.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/mempool.h
> > > @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ typedef struct mempool_s {
> > > int min_nr; /* nr of elements at *elements */
> > > int curr_nr; /* Current nr of elements at *elements */
> > > void **elements;
> > > + bool use_prealloc_only; /* Use only preallocated elements */
> >
> > This increases the struct size from 56 to 64 bytes (64 bit arch).
> > mempool_t is embedded in lots of other larger structs, and this may
> > result in some unwanted bloat.
> >
> > Is there a way to achieve the same thing without adding a new bool to
> > the mempool struct?
>
> We could split out the part of mempool_alloc that uses preallocated
> elements without what waiting part and expose it in another API
> function named something like mempool_alloc_preallocated. Would that
> be better?
Yes, that might be better. As long as other users of mempool (esp if
KASAN is disabled) are unaffected then it should be fine.
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