[GIT PULL] slab updates for 7.4

From: Harry Yoo

Date: Thu Oct 22 2026 - 09:13:17 EST


Hi Linus,

please pull the latest slab updates from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/slab.git tags/slab-for-7.4

There are no known conflicts with other trees.

Thanks,
Harry

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- Performance improvement of the sheaf prefill API, by allowing the
barn to hold a partial sheaf and refilling sheaves from the barn.
This improves will-it-scale mmap1 throughput by 24% on the
maple_node cache. (Hao Li)

- Restore memcg accounting of ipc msg_msg allocations, lost with
e.g. CONFIG_SLAB_BUCKETS=n where the allocations fall back to the
general kmalloc caches. (Kees Cook)

- Fix an old race between kmem_cache_destroy() and slab_late_init(),
where a cache destroyed late in the boot process tries to release a
kobject that was never initialized. (Imre Kaloz)

- Remove slab_folio(), the last use of struct folio in slab code.
(Matthew Wilcox)

- Reject kmalloc() requests above KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE explicitly with a
warning and NULL return instead of relying on the page allocator's
order check. (Zi Yan)

- Various minor fixes and cleanups. (Hao Li, Karl Mehltretter,
Kees Cook, Longlong Xia)

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The following changes since commit cee9395acd8043be0644b25c34bfa86623f2b935:

Linux 7.3-rc1 (2026-08-30 13:34:40 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/slab.git tags/slab-for-7.4

for you to fetch changes up to d15d7703166daf7bd62c844a3cb1b3a6279adb4c:

mm/slub: initialize the free pointer of the bootstrap kmem_cache_node (2026-10-19 11:57:03 +0100)

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slab changes for 7.4

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Hao Li (3):
mm/slub: unify slub stat definitions to simplify metric additions
mm/slub: make the case handling in __slab_free() easier to follow
mm/slub: refill prefilled sheaves from the barn

Imre Kaloz (1):
mm/slab: sample slab_state once in kmem_cache_destroy()

Karl Mehltretter (1):
mm/slub: initialize the free pointer of the bootstrap kmem_cache_node

Kees Cook (2):
mm/slab: Mark the kmem_buckets_create() context as a Context: section
ipc, msg: Account msg_msg allocations with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT again

Longlong Xia (1):
mm/slab_common: reject zero object_size before calculate_alignment

Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) (1):
slab: Remove slab_folio()

Zi Yan (1):
mm/slab: reject unsupported kmalloc() sizes

ipc/msgutil.c | 3 +-
mm/slab.h | 28 ++---
mm/slab_common.c | 23 ++--
mm/slub.c | 329 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
4 files changed, 228 insertions(+), 155 deletions(-)

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Cheers,
Harry / Hyeonggon