Re: block: DMA alignment of IO buffer allocated from slab

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To: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>, Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: block: DMA alignment of IO buffer allocated from slab
From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 08:58:40 -0700
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>, Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx>, linux-block <linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-mm <linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx>, Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "open list:XFS FILESYSTEM" <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>, Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <c844c598-be1d-bef4-fb99-09cf99571fd7@virtuozzo.com>

On Mon, 2018-09-24 at 18:52 +-0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
+AD4 Yes, with CONFIG+AF8-DEBUG+AF8-SLAB+AD0-y, CONFIG+AF8-SLUB+AF8-DEBUG+AF8-ON+AD0-y kmalloc() guarantees
+AD4 that result is aligned on ARCH+AF8-KMALLOC+AF8-MINALIGN boundary.

Had you noticed that Vitaly Kuznetsov showed that this is not the case? See
also https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87h8ij0zot.fsf+AEA-vitty.brq.redhat.com/.

Thanks,

Bart.

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