From: "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>
To: Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>, harry@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: cl@gentwo.org, rientjes@google.com, roman.gushchin@linux.dev,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] slub: clarify kmem_cache_refill_sheaf() comments
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 14:40:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d013f96a-370a-4f1e-8002-3a5876ea44ac@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260407120018.42692-1-hao.li@linux.dev>
On 4/7/26 13:59, Hao Li wrote:
> In the in-place refill case, some objects may already have been added
> before the function returns -ENOMEM.
> Clarify this behavior and polish the rest of the comment for readability.
>
> Acked-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>
> ---
> Thanks Harry for good suggestion!
Thanks! Added to slab/for-next
> ---
> mm/slub.c | 13 ++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 4927407c9699..92362eeb13e5 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -5120,12 +5120,15 @@ void kmem_cache_return_sheaf(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfp,
> }
>
> /*
> - * refill a sheaf previously returned by kmem_cache_prefill_sheaf to at least
> - * the given size
> + * Refill a sheaf previously returned by kmem_cache_prefill_sheaf to at least
> + * the given size.
> *
> - * the sheaf might be replaced by a new one when requesting more than
> - * s->sheaf_capacity objects if such replacement is necessary, but the refill
> - * fails (returning -ENOMEM), the existing sheaf is left intact
> + * Return: 0 on success. The sheaf will contain at least @size objects.
> + * The sheaf might have been replaced with a new one if more than
> + * sheaf->capacity objects are requested.
> + *
> + * Return: -ENOMEM on failure. Some objects might have been added to the sheaf
> + * but the sheaf will not be replaced.
> *
> * In practice we always refill to full sheaf's capacity.
> */
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2026-04-07 11:59 [PATCH v3] slub: clarify kmem_cache_refill_sheaf() comments Hao Li
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