From: Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>
To: "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org>, Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/15] mm/slab: introduce slab_alloc_context
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:52:59 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ajIKP4pQRnPHsB6k@fedora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260615-slab_alloc_flags-v3-3-ce1146d140fb@kernel.org>
On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 01:54:36PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote:
> Similarly to page allocator's struct alloc_context, introduce a helper
> struct to hold a part of the allocation arguments. This will allow
> reducing the number of parameters in many functions of the
> implementation, and extend them easily if needed.
>
> For now, make it hold the caller address and the originally requested
> allocation size.
>
> Convert alloc_single_from_new_slab(), __slab_alloc_node() and
> ___slab_alloc(). No functional change intended.
>
> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260610-slab_alloc_flags-v2-4-7190909db118@kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>
--
Thanks,
Hao
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-17 2:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-15 11:54 [PATCH v3 00/15] mm/slab: introduce alloc_flags and slab_alloc_context Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-06-15 11:54 ` [PATCH v3 01/15] mm/slab: do not init any kfence objects on allocation Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-06-17 2:44 ` Hao Li
2026-06-15 11:54 ` [PATCH v3 02/15] mm/slab: stop inlining __slab_alloc_node() Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-06-15 11:54 ` [PATCH v3 03/15] mm/slab: introduce slab_alloc_context Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-06-17 2:52 ` Hao Li [this message]
2026-06-15 11:54 ` [PATCH v3 04/15] mm/slab: introduce alloc_flags and SLAB_ALLOC_NOLOCK Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-06-15 11:54 ` [PATCH v3 05/15] mm/slab: replace struct partial_context with slab_alloc_context Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-06-15 11:54 ` [PATCH v3 06/15] mm/slab: add alloc_flags to slab_alloc_context Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-06-15 11:54 ` [PATCH v3 07/15] mm/slab: pass alloc_flags to new slab allocation Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-06-15 11:54 ` [PATCH v3 08/15] mm/slab: pass alloc_flags through slab_post_alloc_hook() chain Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-06-15 11:54 ` [PATCH v3 09/15] mm/slab: replace slab_alloc_node() parameters with slab_alloc_context Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-06-15 11:54 ` [PATCH v3 10/15] mm/slab: allow kmem_cache_alloc_bulk() with any gfp flags Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-06-15 11:54 ` [PATCH v3 11/15] mm/slab: pass slab_alloc_context to __do_kmalloc_node() Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-06-15 11:54 ` [PATCH v3 12/15] mm/slab: allow __GFP_NOMEMALLOC and __GFP_NOWARN for kmalloc_nolock() Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-06-15 11:54 ` [PATCH v3 13/15] mm/slab: introduce kmalloc_flags() Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-06-15 11:54 ` [PATCH v3 14/15] mm/slab: remove __GFP_NO_OBJ_EXT usage from alloc_slab_obj_exts() Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-06-15 11:54 ` [PATCH v3 15/15] mm/slab: replace __GFP_NO_OBJ_EXT with SLAB_ALLOC_NO_RECURSE for sheaves Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
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