mm: make minimum slab alignment a runtime property
authorPeter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Tue, 10 May 2022 01:20:53 +0000 (18:20 -0700)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 13 May 2022 14:20:07 +0000 (07:20 -0700)
commitd949a8155d139aa890795b802004a196b7f00598
treef4f44a8b94c40c132e6832035a8cd3a43adcc5e1
parent534aa1dc975ac883ad89110534585a96630802a0
mm: make minimum slab alignment a runtime property

When CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS is enabled we currently increase the minimum
slab alignment to 16.  This happens even if MTE is not supported in
hardware or disabled via kasan=off, which creates an unnecessary memory
overhead in those cases.  Eliminate this overhead by making the minimum
slab alignment a runtime property and only aligning to 16 if KASAN is
enabled at runtime.

On a DragonBoard 845c (non-MTE hardware) with a kernel built with
CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS, waiting for quiescence after a full Android boot I
see the following Slab measurements in /proc/meminfo (median of 3
reboots):

Before: 169020 kB
After:  167304 kB

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make slab alignment type `unsigned int' to avoid casting]
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I752e725179b43b144153f4b6f584ceb646473ead
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220427195820.1716975-2-pcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
include/linux/slab.h
mm/slab.c
mm/slab_common.c
mm/slob.c