Re: [PATCH RFC 00/15] mm/slab: introduce alloc_flags and slab_alloc_context

[Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)]

On 6/9/26 20:40, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Tue Jun 9, 2026 at 2:17 AM PDT, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote:
>> This series is based on slab/for-next. If all goes well, it would
>> hopefully go to slab/for-next soon after the 7.2 merge window, so any
>> other work can be based on it to avoid conflicts, as it touches a lot
>> parts of slab.
>>
>> Git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/linux.git/log/?h=b4/slab_alloc_flags
> 
> Overall looks great to me.
> I would ship all patches except the last one for this merge window,
> since I don't see anything controversial or dangerous in there.

Hmm that's ambitious :)

> Especially since it touches slab so much. My slab-arena changes
> would need to adopt it and I don't want to delay the whole thing by two merge windows.
> Harry's changes would need to rebased as well.

It wouldn't be a problem if they went through the slab tree as well, and
just be applied on top of this series already in the slab tree.
In case of bpf tree there could be a shared stable branch.
So no delays by two merge windows.

> So the sooner the trees converge the better.

But yeah it would be simpler.
I can try exposing this to -next ASAP and plan to send a second PR
separately from the series already there in the second merge window week, if
no issues arise, and see if Linus is benevolent.