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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
	Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: mempool_alloc_bulk and various mempool improvements
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:52:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251111135300.752962-1-hch@lst.de> (raw)

Hi all,

this series adds a bulk version of mempool_alloc that makes allocating
multiple objects deadlock safe.

The initial users is the blk-crypto-fallback code:

  https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20251031093517.1603379-1-hch@lst.de/

with which v1 was posted, but I also have a few other users in mind.

Changes since v1:
 - fix build for !CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION
 - improve the kerneldoc comments further
 - refactor the code so that the mempool_alloc fastpath does not
   have to deal with arrays
 - don't support !__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM for bulk allocations
 - do poll allocations even if not all elements are available
 - s/elem/elems/
 - use a separate failure injection know for the bulk allocator

diffstat:
 include/linux/fault-inject.h |    8 -
 include/linux/mempool.h      |    7 
 mm/mempool.c                 |  341 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 3 files changed, 240 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-)


             reply	other threads:[~2025-11-11 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-11 13:52 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-11-11 13:52 ` [PATCH 1/7] fault-inject: make enum fault_flags available unconditionally Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-11 13:52 ` [PATCH 2/7] mempool: update kerneldoc comments Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-11 13:52 ` [PATCH 3/7] mempool: add error injection support Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-11 13:52 ` [PATCH 4/7] mempool: factor out a mempool_adjust_gfp helper Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-11 13:52 ` [PATCH 5/7] mempool: factor out a mempool_alloc_from_pool helper Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-11 13:52 ` [PATCH 6/7] mempool: fix a wakeup race when sleeping for elements Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-12 10:53   ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-11-12 15:38     ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-11 13:52 ` [PATCH 7/7] mempool: add mempool_{alloc,free}_bulk Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-12 12:20   ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-11-12 15:47     ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-12 15:56       ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-11-12 15:58         ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-12 12:22 ` mempool_alloc_bulk and various mempool improvements Vlastimil Babka
2025-11-12 15:50   ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-12 15:57     ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-11-12 17:34     ` Eric Biggers
2025-11-13  5:52       ` Christoph Hellwig

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