Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] slab: support for compiler-assisted type-based slab cache partitioning

From: Harry Yoo (Oracle)

Date: Thu May 14 2026 - 06:14:18 EST


On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 11:01:26AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote:
> Applied [1] to slab/for-next, thanks. That means including the kernel-doc
> workarounds in patch 3. I know Jon said someone might hate it, but maybe it
> will motivate them for creating a proper fix :) It seems better than leaving
> doc generation broken or not applying this series at all.
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab.git/log/?h=slab/for-7.2/alloc_token
>
> I did the following fixup to remove passing an unnecessary NULL argument for
> __kmalloc_nolock() with buckets enabled. Made bloat-o-meter happier a bit.

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Looks reasonable to me, thanks!

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Cheers,
Harry / Hyeonggon