Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] mm, slab, kasan: replace kasan_never_merge() with SLAB_NO_MERGE

[David Rientjes]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2024, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> The SLAB_KASAN flag prevents merging of caches in some configurations,
> which is handled in a rather complicated way via kasan_never_merge().
> Since we now have a generic SLAB_NO_MERGE flag, we can instead use it
> for KASAN caches in addition to SLAB_KASAN in those configurations,
> and simplify the SLAB_NEVER_MERGE handling.
> 
> Tested-by: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

Tested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>