New memory allocation API

New memory allocation API

[Leon Romanovsky]

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