linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] rust: support align and NUMA id in allocations

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Message-ID: <aFwf5bWd4JtotCc0@Mac.home>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 09:12:21 -0700
From: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
To: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@...sulko.se>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>,
	Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] rust: support align and NUMA id in allocations

On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 06:07:06PM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 06:12:52AM -0700, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 08:30:26AM +0200, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> > [...]
> > > @@ -151,16 +159,11 @@ unsafe fn realloc(
> > >          layout: Layout,
> > >          old_layout: Layout,
> > >          flags: Flags,
> > > +        nid: Option<i32>,
> > >      ) -> Result<NonNull<[u8]>, AllocError> {
> > > -        // TODO: Support alignments larger than PAGE_SIZE.
> > 
> > Thanks a lot for doing this! While you're at it, maybe we can add a few
> > tests for various alignments of allocation? I'm thinking:
> > 
> > #[repr(align(65536)]
> > pub struct Test64k {
> >     a: i32
> > }
> > 
> > #[kunit_tests(rust_vbox)]
> > mod tests {
> >     #[test]
> >     fn large_allocation() -> Result {
> >         // Better use `new_uninit()` to avoid allocation on the stack.
> >         let x = VBox::<Test64k>::new_uninit(...)?;
> > 
> > 	assert!(x.as_ptr().addr() & (kernel::sizes::SZ_64K - 1) == 0);
> >     }
> > }
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Boqun
> > 
> > > -        if layout.align() > bindings::PAGE_SIZE {
> > > -            pr_warn!("Vmalloc does not support alignments larger than PAGE_SIZE yet.\n");
> > > -            return Err(AllocError);
> > > -        }
> > > -
> > >          // SAFETY: If not `None`, `ptr` is guaranteed to point to valid memory, which was previously
> > >          // allocated with this `Allocator`.
> > > -        unsafe { ReallocFunc::VREALLOC.call(ptr, layout, old_layout, flags) }
> > > +        unsafe { ReallocFunc::VREALLOC.call(ptr, layout, old_layout, flags, nid) }
> > >      }
> > >  }
> > >  
> > [...]
> >
> At least we are lacking of vrealloc() exercising in the vmalloc-test suite.
> I am not sure it makes a lot of sense to add a kunit test on top of rust-wrapper
> around vrealloc().
> 
> From my side, i will add the test case to the test_vmalloc.c test-suite.
> 

Thanks! But we will need these tests from Rust side anyway, to test
1) whether the Rust wrapper does the right thing, and 2) whether any C
change cause the behavior changes on the API that Rust wrapper rely on.

Regards,
Boqun

> --
> Uladzislau Rezki