Re: [PATCH v7 0/2] mm/slab, ipc: kmem_buckets kernel-doc and msg_msg accounting fixes

From: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)

Date: Wed Oct 14 2026 - 04:23:12 EST



On Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:23:41 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> As Vlastimil suggested[1], these are the first two patches of v6, split
> out for 7.4. The rest of the skb buckets series will come back for 7.5.
>
> 2/2 now keeps SLAB_ACCOUNT on the msg_msg bucket caches and allocates
> with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT as well, so a msg_msg is charged with
> CONFIG_SLAB_BUCKETS either way.
>
> [...]

Applied to mm/slab.git slab/for-7.4/misc, thanks!

[1/2] mm/slab: Mark the kmem_buckets_create() context as a Context: section
commit: 655668f0caf32a42fef10aaf31137e52f46a0260
[2/2] ipc, msg: Account msg_msg allocations with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT again
commit: 49c0b3dedf7c8c64e432e63dd7b24f00909916d8

Best regards,
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Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@xxxxxxxxxx>