On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 01:38:01AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > From: Alexey Brodkin <alexey.brod...@synopsys.com> > > [ Upstream commit a66d972465d15b1d89281258805eb8b47d66bd36 ] > > Initially we bumped into problem with 32-bit aligned atomic64_t > on ARC, see [1]. And then during quite lengthly discussion Peter Z. > mentioned ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN which IMHO makes perfect sense. > If allocation is done by plain kmalloc() obtained buffer will be > ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN aligned and then why buffer obtained via > devm_kmalloc() should have any other alignment? > > This way we at least get the same behavior for both types of > allocation. > > [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-snps-arc/2018-July/004009.html > [2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-snps-arc/2018-July/004036.html > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrod...@synopsys.com> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org> > Cc: David Laight <david.lai...@aculab.com> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> > Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgu...@synopsys.com> > Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> > Cc: Greg KH <g...@kroah.com> > Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> # 4.8+ > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.le...@microsoft.com> > --- > drivers/base/devres.c | 10 ++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/base/devres.c b/drivers/base/devres.c > index 71d577025285..e43a04a495a3 100644 > --- a/drivers/base/devres.c > +++ b/drivers/base/devres.c > @@ -25,8 +25,14 @@ struct devres_node { > > struct devres { > struct devres_node node; > - /* -- 3 pointers */ > - unsigned long long data[]; /* guarantee ull alignment */ > + /* > + * Some archs want to perform DMA into kmalloc caches > + * and need a guaranteed alignment larger than > + * the alignment of a 64-bit integer. > + * Thus we use ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN here and get exactly the same > + * buffer alignment as if it was allocated by plain kmalloc(). > + */ > + u8 __aligned(ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN) data[]; > }; > > struct devres_group {
This is not needed in any of the older kernels, despite what the stable@ line said, as it ends up taking a lot of memory up for all other arches. That's why I only applied it to the one kernel version. I'm betting that it will be eventually reverted when people notice it as well :) So can you please drop it from all of your trees? thanks, greg k-h
