Re: [GIT PULL] MM updates for 6.10-rc1

[Suren Baghdasaryan]

On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 11:02 AM Kent Overstreet
<kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 09:48:49AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Sun, 19 May 2024 at 08:32, Linus Torvalds
> > <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm going to take this pull and fix up the cases I find, but I'm not
> > > happy with this kind of trivial C preprocessor misuse.
> >
> > I did some other maco handling cleanup too and tried to regularize
> > some of this all, and it seems to work for me. But somebody should
> > double-check, and it's possible these patterns should all be
> > regularized further with a few helper macros for the whole "add
> > __GFP_ZERO to argument list" or similar.
>
> I just double checked slab.h, gfp.h and percpu.h, and scanned through
> the diff vs. 6.9 for include/linux/ - looks like you got everything.

Sorry about that. Yeah, I could not find any other place that was not
fixed. Thanks for noticing and fixing them!

>
> I think we can slim down the API surface of slab.h some more too, we're
> now exposing three different ways of saying "trace/track this allocation
> here": _trace, _track_caller and _noprof vs. normal; I think after a
> cycle we can see if the old variants are still needed or can be
> consolidated somehow.
>