From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: RDMA mailing list <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Subject: New memory allocation API
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:19:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260226071913.GD12611@unreal> (raw)
Hi,
Please be aware that v7.0-rc1 has two commits:
bf4afc53b77a ("Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument")
69050f8d6d07 ("treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types")
Which changes old and well known kmalloc*() calls to kmalloc_obj():
Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)
Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)
Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)
(where TYPE may also be *VAR)
The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".
Thanks
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