dm-bufio: use kmalloc to allocate power-of-two sized buffers

Vlastimil Babka said [1] that kmalloc will return a power-of-two-aligned
buffer if it was called with a power-of-two size. So, we can use kmalloc
instead of our own slab cache in dm-bufio. Note that the code for the
slab cache was not removed because dm-bufio supports non-power-of-two
buffer sizes.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/ [1]

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>

Author: Mikulas Patocka

drivers/md/dm-bufio.c

@@ -318,9 +318,10 @@ static struct lru_entry *lru_evict(struct lru *lru, le_predicate pred, void *con
  */
 enum data_mode {
 	DATA_MODE_SLAB = 0,
-	DATA_MODE_GET_FREE_PAGES = 1,
-	DATA_MODE_VMALLOC = 2,
-	DATA_MODE_LIMIT = 3
+	DATA_MODE_KMALLOC = 1,
+	DATA_MODE_GET_FREE_PAGES = 2,
+	DATA_MODE_VMALLOC = 3,
+	DATA_MODE_LIMIT = 4
 };
 
 struct dm_buffer {
@@ -1062,6 +1063,7 @@ static unsigned long dm_bufio_retain_bytes = DM_BUFIO_DEFAULT_RETAIN_BYTES;
 
 static unsigned long dm_bufio_peak_allocated;
 static unsigned long dm_bufio_allocated_kmem_cache;
+static unsigned long dm_bufio_allocated_kmalloc;
 static unsigned long dm_bufio_allocated_get_free_pages;
 static unsigned long dm_bufio_allocated_vmalloc;
 static unsigned long dm_bufio_current_allocated;
@@ -1104,6 +1106,7 @@ static void adjust_total_allocated(struct dm_buffer *b, bool unlink)
 
 	static unsigned long * const class_ptr[DATA_MODE_LIMIT] = {
 		&dm_bufio_allocated_kmem_cache,
+		&dm_bufio_allocated_kmalloc,
 		&dm_bufio_allocated_get_free_pages,
 		&dm_bufio_allocated_vmalloc,
 	};
@@ -1181,6 +1184,11 @@ static void *alloc_buffer_data(struct dm_bufio_client *c, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 		return kmem_cache_alloc(c->slab_cache, gfp_mask);
 	}
 
+	if (unlikely(c->block_size < PAGE_SIZE)) {
+		*data_mode = DATA_MODE_KMALLOC;
+		return kmalloc(c->block_size, gfp_mask | __GFP_RECLAIMABLE);
+	}
+
 	if (c->block_size <= KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE &&
 	    gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY) {
 		*data_mode = DATA_MODE_GET_FREE_PAGES;
@@ -1204,6 +1212,10 @@ static void free_buffer_data(struct dm_bufio_client *c,
 		kmem_cache_free(c->slab_cache, data);
 		break;
 
+	case DATA_MODE_KMALLOC:
+		kfree(data);
+		break;
+
 	case DATA_MODE_GET_FREE_PAGES:
 		free_pages((unsigned long)data,
 			   c->sectors_per_block_bits - (PAGE_SHIFT - SECTOR_SHIFT));
@@ -2519,8 +2531,7 @@ struct dm_bufio_client *dm_bufio_client_create(struct block_device *bdev, unsign
 		goto bad_dm_io;
 	}
 
-	if (block_size <= KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE &&
-	    (block_size < PAGE_SIZE || !is_power_of_2(block_size))) {
+	if (block_size <= KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE && !is_power_of_2(block_size)) {
 		unsigned int align = min(1U << __ffs(block_size), (unsigned int)PAGE_SIZE);
 
 		snprintf(slab_name, sizeof(slab_name), "dm_bufio_cache-%u-%u",
@@ -2902,6 +2913,7 @@ static int __init dm_bufio_init(void)
 	__u64 mem;
 
 	dm_bufio_allocated_kmem_cache = 0;
+	dm_bufio_allocated_kmalloc = 0;
 	dm_bufio_allocated_get_free_pages = 0;
 	dm_bufio_allocated_vmalloc = 0;
 	dm_bufio_current_allocated = 0;
@@ -2990,6 +3002,9 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(peak_allocated_bytes, "Tracks the maximum allocated memory");
 module_param_named(allocated_kmem_cache_bytes, dm_bufio_allocated_kmem_cache, ulong, 0444);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(allocated_kmem_cache_bytes, "Memory allocated with kmem_cache_alloc");
 
+module_param_named(allocated_kmalloc_bytes, dm_bufio_allocated_kmalloc, ulong, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(allocated_kmalloc_bytes, "Memory allocated with kmalloc_alloc");
+
 module_param_named(allocated_get_free_pages_bytes, dm_bufio_allocated_get_free_pages, ulong, 0444);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(allocated_get_free_pages_bytes, "Memory allocated with get_free_pages");