On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 05:58:23PM +0900, Harry Yoo wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 07:24:41PM +0200, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> > Reimplement k[v]realloc_node() to be able to set node and
> > alignment should a user need to do so. In order to do that while
> > retaining the maximal backward compatibility, add
> > k[v]realloc_node_align() functions and redefine the rest of API
> > using these new ones.
> >
> > While doing that, we also keep the number of _noprof variants to a
> > minimum, which implies some changes to the existing users of older
> > _noprof functions, that basically being bcachefs.
> >
> > With that change we also provide the ability for the Rust part of
> > the kernel to set node and alignment in its K[v]xxx
> > [re]allocations.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.w...@konsulko.se>
> > ---
> > fs/bcachefs/darray.c | 2 +-
> > fs/bcachefs/util.h | 2 +-
> > include/linux/bpfptr.h | 2 +-
> > include/linux/slab.h | 38 +++++++++++++++----------
> > lib/rhashtable.c | 4 +--
> > mm/slub.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> > 6 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
>
> > diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> > index c4b64821e680..6fad4cdea6c4 100644
> > --- a/mm/slub.c
> > +++ b/mm/slub.c
> > @@ -4845,7 +4845,7 @@ void kfree(const void *object)
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree);
> >
> > static __always_inline __realloc_size(2) void *
> > -__do_krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
> > +__do_krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, unsigned long align, gfp_t
> > flags, int nid)
> > {
> > void *ret;
> > size_t ks = 0;
> > @@ -4859,6 +4859,20 @@ __do_krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t
> > flags)
> > if (!kasan_check_byte(p))
> > return NULL;
> >
> > + /* refuse to proceed if alignment is bigger than what kmalloc()
> > provides */
> > + if (!IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)p, align) || new_size < align)
> > + return NULL;
>
> Hmm but what happens if `p` is aligned to `align`, but the new object is not?
>
> For example, what will happen if we allocate object with size=64, align=64
> and then do krealloc with size=96, align=64...
>
> Or am I missing something?
You generally need size to be a multiple of align...
