mm: page_frag: Introduce page_frag_alloc_align()
authorKevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Thu, 4 Feb 2021 10:56:35 +0000 (18:56 +0800)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Sat, 6 Feb 2021 19:57:28 +0000 (11:57 -0800)
commitb358e2122b9d7aa99f681d4edfafd999845d16ff
tree2bb2a9ee6ed3e4766ba90da3da0b8c521fbfe94d
parenta455fcd7c77046d576dcfe41c1361928dd8b5eaf
mm: page_frag: Introduce page_frag_alloc_align()

In the current implementation of page_frag_alloc(), it doesn't have
any align guarantee for the returned buffer address. But for some
hardwares they do require the DMA buffer to be aligned correctly,
so we would have to use some workarounds like below if the buffers
allocated by the page_frag_alloc() are used by these hardwares for
DMA.
    buf = page_frag_alloc(really_needed_size + align);
    buf = PTR_ALIGN(buf, align);

These codes seems ugly and would waste a lot of memories if the buffers
are used in a network driver for the TX/RX. So introduce
page_frag_alloc_align() to make sure that an aligned buffer address is
returned.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
include/linux/gfp.h
mm/page_alloc.c