On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 06:03:26PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Subject should say mm/slab
My bad, thanks for catching this.
> On 11/23/22 13:31, Feng Tang wrote:
> > commit 6edf2576a6cc ("mm/slub: enable debugging memory wasting of
> > kmalloc") introduces 'SLAB_KMALLOC' bit specifying whether a
> > kmem_cache is a kmalloc cache for slab/slub (slob doesn't have
> > dedicated kmalloc caches).
> >
> > Add a helper inline function for other components like kasan to
> > simplify code.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Thanks!
> Patch 2 seems to depend on patches in Andrew's tree so it's simpler if he
> takes both of these too.
Yes, patch 2/2 change many places of kasan code.
Hi Andrew,
Could you consider taking these 2 patches to your tree? If you think
it's too close to the merge windown, I can respin after 6.2. thanks!
- Feng
> Thanks,
> Vlastimil
>
> > ---
> > changlog:
> >
> > since v1:
> > * don't use macro for the helper (Andrew Morton)
> > * place the inline function in mm/slb.h to solve data structure
> > definition issue (Vlastimil Babka)
> >
> > mm/slab.h | 8 ++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
> > index e3b3231af742..0d72fd62751a 100644
> > --- a/mm/slab.h
> > +++ b/mm/slab.h
> > @@ -325,6 +325,14 @@ static inline slab_flags_t kmem_cache_flags(unsigned int object_size,
> > }
> > #endif
> >
> > +static inline bool is_kmalloc_cache(struct kmem_cache *s)
> > +{
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_SLOB
> > + return (s->flags & SLAB_KMALLOC);
> > +#else
> > + return false;
> > +#endif
> > +}
> >
> > /* Legal flag mask for kmem_cache_create(), for various configurations */
> > #define SLAB_CORE_FLAGS (SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_CACHE_DMA | \
>
