[PATCH RFC 09/15] mm/slab: replace slab_alloc_node() parameters with slab_alloc_context
From: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
Date: Tue Jun 09 2026 - 05:36:26 EST
The function takes all the parameters that exist as fields in
slab_alloc_context, except alloc_flags. Replace them with a single
pointer.
This moves slab_alloc_context initialization to a number of callers,
which is more verbose, but arguably also more clear than a long list of
parameters, and most do not use the 'lru' field.
This will also allow kmalloc_nolock() to call slab_alloc_node() and
reduce the special open-coding it currently has.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slub.c | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 034f2cd1c1fd..b511d768e9b6 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -4905,30 +4905,23 @@ unsigned int alloc_from_pcs_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfp, size_t size,
*
* Otherwise we can simply pick the next object from the lockless free list.
*/
-static __fastpath_inline void *slab_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *s, struct list_lru *lru,
- gfp_t gfpflags, int node, unsigned long addr, size_t orig_size)
+static __fastpath_inline void *slab_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *s,
+ gfp_t gfpflags, int node, struct slab_alloc_context *ac)
{
- const unsigned int alloc_flags = SLAB_ALLOC_DEFAULT;
void *object;
- struct slab_alloc_context ac = {
- .caller_addr = addr,
- .orig_size = orig_size,
- .alloc_flags = alloc_flags,
- .lru = lru,
- };
s = slab_pre_alloc_hook(s, gfpflags);
if (unlikely(!s))
return NULL;
- object = kfence_alloc(s, orig_size, gfpflags);
+ object = kfence_alloc(s, ac->orig_size, gfpflags);
if (unlikely(object))
goto out;
- object = alloc_from_pcs(s, gfpflags, alloc_flags, node);
+ object = alloc_from_pcs(s, gfpflags, ac->alloc_flags, node);
if (!object)
- object = __slab_alloc_node(s, gfpflags, node, &ac);
+ object = __slab_alloc_node(s, gfpflags, node, ac);
maybe_wipe_obj_freeptr(s, object);
@@ -4937,15 +4930,21 @@ static __fastpath_inline void *slab_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *s, struct list
* In case this fails due to memcg_slab_post_alloc_hook(),
* object is set to NULL
*/
- slab_post_alloc_hook(s, gfpflags, 1, &object, &ac);
+ slab_post_alloc_hook(s, gfpflags, 1, &object, ac);
return object;
}
void *kmem_cache_alloc_noprof(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags)
{
- void *ret = slab_alloc_node(s, NULL, gfpflags, NUMA_NO_NODE, _RET_IP_,
- s->object_size);
+ void *ret;
+ struct slab_alloc_context ac = {
+ .caller_addr = _RET_IP_,
+ .orig_size = s->object_size,
+ .alloc_flags = SLAB_ALLOC_DEFAULT,
+ };
+
+ ret = slab_alloc_node(s, gfpflags, NUMA_NO_NODE, &ac);
trace_kmem_cache_alloc(_RET_IP_, ret, s, gfpflags, NUMA_NO_NODE);
@@ -4956,8 +4955,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc_noprof);
void *kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof(struct kmem_cache *s, struct list_lru *lru,
gfp_t gfpflags)
{
- void *ret = slab_alloc_node(s, lru, gfpflags, NUMA_NO_NODE, _RET_IP_,
- s->object_size);
+ void *ret;
+ struct slab_alloc_context ac = {
+ .caller_addr = _RET_IP_,
+ .orig_size = s->object_size,
+ .alloc_flags = SLAB_ALLOC_DEFAULT,
+ .lru = lru,
+ };
+
+ ret = slab_alloc_node(s, gfpflags, NUMA_NO_NODE, &ac);
trace_kmem_cache_alloc(_RET_IP_, ret, s, gfpflags, NUMA_NO_NODE);
@@ -4989,7 +4995,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_charge);
*/
void *kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags, int node)
{
- void *ret = slab_alloc_node(s, NULL, gfpflags, node, _RET_IP_, s->object_size);
+ void *ret;
+ struct slab_alloc_context ac = {
+ .caller_addr = _RET_IP_,
+ .orig_size = s->object_size,
+ .alloc_flags = SLAB_ALLOC_DEFAULT,
+ };
+
+ ret = slab_alloc_node(s, gfpflags, node, &ac);
trace_kmem_cache_alloc(_RET_IP_, ret, s, gfpflags, node);
@@ -5319,6 +5332,11 @@ void *__do_kmalloc_node(size_t size, kmem_buckets *b, gfp_t flags, int node,
{
struct kmem_cache *s;
void *ret;
+ struct slab_alloc_context ac = {
+ .caller_addr = caller,
+ .orig_size = size,
+ .alloc_flags = SLAB_ALLOC_DEFAULT,
+ };
if (unlikely(size > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE)) {
ret = __kmalloc_large_node_noprof(size, flags, node);
@@ -5332,7 +5350,7 @@ void *__do_kmalloc_node(size_t size, kmem_buckets *b, gfp_t flags, int node,
s = kmalloc_slab(size, b, flags, token);
- ret = slab_alloc_node(s, NULL, flags, node, caller, size);
+ ret = slab_alloc_node(s, flags, node, &ac);
ret = kasan_kmalloc(s, ret, size, flags);
trace_kmalloc(caller, ret, size, s->size, flags, node);
return ret;
@@ -5451,8 +5469,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof);
void *__kmalloc_cache_noprof(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags, size_t size)
{
- void *ret = slab_alloc_node(s, NULL, gfpflags, NUMA_NO_NODE,
- _RET_IP_, size);
+ void *ret;
+ struct slab_alloc_context ac = {
+ .caller_addr = _RET_IP_,
+ .orig_size = size,
+ .alloc_flags = SLAB_ALLOC_DEFAULT,
+ };
+
+ ret = slab_alloc_node(s, gfpflags, NUMA_NO_NODE, &ac);
trace_kmalloc(_RET_IP_, ret, size, s->size, gfpflags, NUMA_NO_NODE);
@@ -5464,7 +5488,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc_cache_noprof);
void *__kmalloc_cache_node_noprof(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags,
int node, size_t size)
{
- void *ret = slab_alloc_node(s, NULL, gfpflags, node, _RET_IP_, size);
+ void *ret;
+ struct slab_alloc_context ac = {
+ .caller_addr = _RET_IP_,
+ .orig_size = size,
+ .alloc_flags = SLAB_ALLOC_DEFAULT,
+ };
+
+ ret = slab_alloc_node(s, gfpflags, node, &ac);
trace_kmalloc(_RET_IP_, ret, size, s->size, gfpflags, node);
--
2.54.0