From: Paul Mundt Subject: Re: [BUG] SLOB breaks Crypto Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 07:35:10 +0900 Message-ID: <20100518223507.GB5933@linux-sh.org> References: <1274211235.11603.1205.camel@calx> <20100518.135945.180391159.davem@davemloft.net> <20100518.142021.135951273.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, mpm@selenic.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, ken@codelabs.ch, geert@linux-m68k.org, michael-dev@fami-braun.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from 124x34x33x190.ap124.ftth.ucom.ne.jp ([124.34.33.190]:60303 "EHLO master.linux-sh.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753549Ab0ERWgI (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2010 18:36:08 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100518.142021.135951273.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:20:21PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Pekka Enberg > Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 00:15:46 +0300 > > > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:59 PM, David Miller wrote: > >> From: Matt Mackall > >> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:33:55 -0500 > >> > >>> SLOB honors ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN. If your arch has alignment > >>> requirements, I recommend you set it. > >> > >> I recommend that the alignment provided by the allocator is not > >> determined by which allocator I happen to have enabled. > >> > >> The values and ifdef'ery should be identical in all of our > >> allocators. > > > > Why? It doesn't make much sense for SLOB, which tries to be as space > > efficient as possible, as a default. If things break on sparc, it > > really needs to set ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN as slab default alignment is > > not something you really want to depend on. > > I think it does make sense to expect that, whatever my architecture > defines or does not define, I can expect the allocators to provide the > same minimum alignment guarentee. Otherwise it is no guarantee at all. > SLAB/SLUB/SLOB all used to have the same BYTES_PER_WORD alignment guarantee, with SLAB and SLUB having moved away from this to unsigned long long in b46b8f19 and 47bfdc0d respectively. This was due to mixing 64-bit integers in data structures, which in the SLAB case resulted in misaligned structures and also broke redzoning (architecture overrides also disabled it completely). The SLUB change was made a couple of days earlier for the same structure misalignment reasons (64-bit integers on 32-bit platforms). The default changes in SLAB/SLUB at least assume that 32-bit architectures can only address 64-bit values on a 64-bit boundary. While this is true for most cases, these have always been handled through the bumping of the architecture minalign values in the past. Indeed, this was the rationale I had for adding the architecture-specific slab minalign override in the first place. The kmalloc one on the other hand is largely just overriden for platforms with DMA requirements -- usually a cacheline boundary. > It's already obvious from these reports that such dependencies do > exist. > These dependencies were then introduced after SLAB/SLUB changed the rules, suggesting that not enough testing was done. > So one of two things should happen: > > 1) SLOB conforms to SLAB/SLUB in it's test > > 2) SLAB/SLUB conforms to SLOB in it's test > > And yes this is an either-or, you can't say they are both valid. I don't see any reason to punish SLOB for the assumptions that SLAB/SLUB arbitrarily took up, presumably on an architecture that should have specified its own alignment requirements and simply couldn't be bothered. Making SLAB redzoning work with arbitrary alignment is another matter entirely, and something that should probably be revisited. Anything that assumes more than BYTES_PER_WORD is simply broken and should be reverted.