On 12/17/2014 01:47 PM, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> +static inline pgd_t *_pgd_alloc(void)
> +{
> +#if defined(CONFIG_X86_PAE) && !defined(CONFIG_XEN)
> + return kmalloc(sizeof(pgdval_t) * PTRS_PER_PGD, PGALLOC_GFP);
> +#else
> + return (pgd_t *)__get_free_page(PGALLOC_GFP);
> +#endif
> +}
I'm looking at:
"Figure 4-7. Formats of CR3 and Paging-Structure Entries with
PAE Paging"
in the SDM. It makes it pretty clear that the lower 5 bits of cr3 are
ignored in PAE mode. That means we have to be 32-byte (or greater)
aligned, right? Does kmalloc() guarantee that?
IOW, do *ALL* of the sl*b allocators in all of their forms with all of
their debugging options guarantee 32-byte alignment when allocating
256-byte objects?
I know we at least try to align to a cacheline, which would be good
enough, but I'm fuzzy on what we *guarantee*.
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