From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, ksummit@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [TECH TOPIC] Implementing malloc
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 21:42:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ak_rr7I4wVPieWYT@stanley.mountain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ak_WOfpcaZIuh99t@casper.infradead.org>
On Thu, Jul 09, 2026 at 06:11:21PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I agree that many memory allocations benefit from providing more semantic
> information to both the compiler and the runtime, as you suggest.
> What I don't think we benefit from is "And you have to pass this magic
> GFP_KERNEL argument too. Unless it's GFP_ATOMIC or something".
You know that most people are using kzmalloc_obj() these days and so
they don't pass GFP_KERNEL...
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-09 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-29 14:29 [TECH TOPIC] Implementing malloc Matthew Wilcox
2026-06-29 15:07 ` Dan Carpenter
2026-06-29 15:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-06-29 15:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-06-29 16:00 ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-06-29 16:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-06-29 16:48 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2026-06-29 16:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-06-29 18:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-06-29 18:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-06-29 18:29 ` Mark Brown
2026-06-29 18:37 ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-06-30 18:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-07-09 16:58 ` Kees Cook
2026-07-09 17:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-07-09 17:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-07-09 17:39 ` Greg KH
2026-07-09 17:42 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-07-09 17:40 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-07-09 18:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-07-09 18:44 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-07-09 18:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-07-09 19:04 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-07-09 18:42 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2026-07-09 18:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-07-09 19:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-07-10 11:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2026-07-10 11:44 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-07-10 12:16 ` Joe Perches
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