From 1b1a946dc2b535785663742f9e4f15fd64bece60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alice Ryhl Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:31:50 +0000 Subject: rust: alloc: specify the minimum alignment of each allocator The kernel's allocators sometimes provide a higher alignment than the end-user requested, so add a new constant on the Allocator trait to let the allocator specify what its minimum guaranteed alignment is. This allows the ForeignOwnable trait to provide a more accurate value of FOREIGN_ALIGN when using a pointer type such as Box, which will be useful with certain collections such as XArray that store its own data in the low bits of pointers. Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250811-align-min-allocator-v2-1-3386cc94f4fc@google.com [ Add helper for ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN; remove cast to usize. - Danilo ] Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich --- rust/kernel/alloc.rs | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'rust/kernel/alloc.rs') diff --git a/rust/kernel/alloc.rs b/rust/kernel/alloc.rs index a2c49e5494d3..907301334d8c 100644 --- a/rust/kernel/alloc.rs +++ b/rust/kernel/alloc.rs @@ -137,6 +137,14 @@ pub mod flags { /// - Implementers must ensure that all trait functions abide by the guarantees documented in the /// `# Guarantees` sections. pub unsafe trait Allocator { + /// The minimum alignment satisfied by all allocations from this allocator. + /// + /// # Guarantees + /// + /// Any pointer allocated by this allocator is guaranteed to be aligned to `MIN_ALIGN` even if + /// the requested layout has a smaller alignment. + const MIN_ALIGN: usize; + /// Allocate memory based on `layout` and `flags`. /// /// On success, returns a buffer represented as `NonNull<[u8]>` that satisfies the layout -- cgit v1.2.3