From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>,
Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
vbabka@suse.cz, penberg@kernel.org, roman.gushchin@linux.dev,
iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, rientjes@google.com,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
kasan-dev <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com>,
Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm: make minimum slab alignment a runtime property
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:56:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YmbElapU5VRsCuTv@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220422201830.288018-1-pcc@google.com>
On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 01:18:30PM -0700, Peter Collingbourne wrote:
> 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
>
> Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I752e725179b43b144153f4b6f584ceb646473ead
> Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-25 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-22 20:18 Peter Collingbourne
2022-04-24 10:45 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2022-04-24 19:15 ` David Rientjes
2022-04-25 5:12 ` kernel test robot
2022-04-26 15:12 ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-04-26 18:15 ` Peter Collingbourne
2022-04-25 15:56 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
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