improve the kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed May 27 2026 - 03:03:26 EST
Hi all,
kmem_cache_alloc_bulk has a very unintuitive and undocumented return
value convention. Fix that and add documentation.
Note that the few comments explaining it mention that the gfp flags
must allow "spinning". That's not really a term used in the memory
allocator, is this supposed to mean "block" or "sleep"?
Diffstat:
drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c | 6 +--
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c | 12 ++-----
include/linux/slab.h | 6 ++-
io_uring/io_uring.c | 23 +++++--------
lib/test_meminit.c | 19 +++++------
mm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c | 5 +-
mm/kfence/kfence_test.c | 9 ++---
mm/slub.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++----------------
net/bpf/test_run.c | 7 +---
net/core/skbuff.c | 23 +++++++------
tools/include/linux/slab.h | 2 -
tools/testing/shared/linux.c | 19 ++++-------
12 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-)