Re: [PATCH RFC 1/1] dmaengine: ptdma: use SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU for the DMA descriptor slab

[Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>]

On 4/11/25 12:41 PM, Eder Zulian wrote:
> The SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU flag prevents a change of type for objects
> allocated from the slab cache (although the memory may be reallocated to
> a completetly different object of the same type.) Moreover, when the
> last reference to an object is dropped the finalization code must not
> run until all __rcu pointers referencing the object have been updated,
> and then a grace period has passed.

I would pull some of the explanation on why and how from your cover. Also, a fixes tag may be needed?

DJ
 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eder Zulian <ezulian@redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/dma/amd/ptdma/ptdma-dmaengine.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/amd/ptdma/ptdma-dmaengine.c b/drivers/dma/amd/ptdma/ptdma-dmaengine.c
> index 715ac3ae067b..b70dd1b0b9fb 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/amd/ptdma/ptdma-dmaengine.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/amd/ptdma/ptdma-dmaengine.c
> @@ -597,7 +597,8 @@ int pt_dmaengine_register(struct pt_device *pt)
>  
>  	pt->dma_desc_cache = kmem_cache_create(desc_cache_name,
>  					       sizeof(struct pt_dma_desc), 0,
> -					       SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL);
> +					       SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN |
> +					       SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, NULL);
>  	if (!pt->dma_desc_cache) {
>  		ret = -ENOMEM;
>  		goto err_cache;