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Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 08:47:28 -0700
From: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
To: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] mm/slab: Introduce kmem_buckets_create() and
family
On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 10:35:36PM -0700, Boqun Feng wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 10:43:39PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > Rust people were asking about kmalloc alignment (but I forgot the details)
>
> It was me! The ask is whether we can specify the alignment for the
> allocation API, for example, requesting a size=96 and align=32 memory,
> or the allocation API could do a "best alignment", for example,
> allocating a size=96 will give a align=32 memory. As far as I
> understand, kmalloc() doesn't support this.
I can drop the "align" argument. Do we want to hard-code a
per-cache-size alignment for the caches in a kmem_buckets collection?
--
Kees Cook
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