From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
llvm@lists.linux.dev, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Handle ksize() vs __alloc_size by forgetting size
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 14:30:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yhzcc1YfpgEXzKdh@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANpmjNOup5JCjRpRkhsF3Z+dPX6_MQE5u6WhnMit84c1TyRK+A@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 12:24:51PM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
> 2. Somehow statically computing the size-class's size (kmalloc_index()
> might help here), removing __alloc_size from allocation functions and
> instead use some wrapper.
I don't think that's computable. I have been thinking about a slab flag
that would say "speed is more important than size; if the smallest slab
for this size of allocation has no free objects, search larger slabs
to get memory instead of allocating a new slab". If we did have such
a feature, it would be impossible to know how large ksize() would report.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-28 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-25 22:16 [PATCH] mm: Handle ksize() vs __alloc_size by forgetting size Kees Cook
2022-02-25 23:45 ` Andrew Morton
2022-02-28 23:16 ` Kees Cook
2022-02-28 11:24 ` Marco Elver
2022-02-28 14:30 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2022-02-28 14:48 ` Daniel Micay
2022-02-28 15:15 ` Daniel Micay
2022-02-28 23:54 ` Kees Cook
2022-02-28 22:42 ` Nick Desaulniers
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