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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] slab: infrastructure for bulk object allocation and
 freeing
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 14:44:41 -0700
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On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 17:51:56 +0200 Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> wrote:

> +bool kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, size_t size,
> +								void **p)
> +{
> +	return kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(s, flags, size, p);
> +}

hm, any call to this function is going to be nasty, brutal and short.

--- a/mm/slab.c~slab-infrastructure-for-bulk-object-allocation-and-freeing-v3-fix
+++ a/mm/slab.c
@@ -3425,7 +3425,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free_bulk);
 bool kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, size_t size,
 								void **p)
 {
-	return kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(s, flags, size, p);
+	return __kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(s, flags, size, p);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc_bulk);
 
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