From: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 02/20] mm/slab: move and refactor __kmem_cache_alias()
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:06:40 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aWXvAGA_GqQEJpB4@hyeyoo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260112-sheaves-for-all-v2-2-98225cfb50cf@suse.cz>
On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 04:16:56PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Move __kmem_cache_alias() to slab_common.c since it's called by
> __kmem_cache_create_args() and calls find_mergeable() that both
> are in this file. We can remove two slab.h declarations and make
> them static. Instead declare sysfs_slab_alias() from slub.c so
> that __kmem_cache_alias() can keep caling it.
>
> Add args parameter to __kmem_cache_alias() and find_mergeable() instead
> of align and ctor. With that we can also move the checks for usersize
> and sheaf_capacity there from __kmem_cache_create_args() and make the
> result more symmetric with slab_unmergeable().
>
> No functional changes intended.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Looks good to me, so:
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
--
Cheers,
Harry / Hyeonggon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-13 7:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-12 15:16 [PATCH RFC v2 00/20] slab: replace cpu (partial) slabs with sheaves Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:16 ` [PATCH RFC v2 01/20] mm/slab: add rcu_barrier() to kvfree_rcu_barrier_on_cache() Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-13 2:08 ` Harry Yoo
2026-01-13 9:32 ` Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:16 ` [PATCH RFC v2 02/20] mm/slab: move and refactor __kmem_cache_alias() Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-13 7:06 ` Harry Yoo [this message]
2026-01-12 15:16 ` [PATCH RFC v2 03/20] mm/slab: make caches with sheaves mergeable Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-13 7:47 ` Harry Yoo
2026-01-12 15:16 ` [PATCH RFC v2 04/20] slab: add sheaves to most caches Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:16 ` [PATCH RFC v2 05/20] slab: introduce percpu sheaves bootstrap Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 06/20] slab: make percpu sheaves compatible with kmalloc_nolock()/kfree_nolock() Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 07/20] slab: handle kmalloc sheaves bootstrap Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 08/20] slab: add optimized sheaf refill from partial list Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 09/20] slab: remove cpu (partial) slabs usage from allocation paths Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 10/20] slab: remove SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 11/20] slab: remove the do_slab_free() fastpath Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 12/20] slab: remove defer_deactivate_slab() Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 13/20] slab: simplify kmalloc_nolock() Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 14/20] slab: remove struct kmem_cache_cpu Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 15/20] slab: remove unused PREEMPT_RT specific macros Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 16/20] slab: refill sheaves from all nodes Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 17/20] slab: update overview comments Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 18/20] slab: remove frozen slab checks from __slab_free() Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 19/20] mm/slub: remove DEACTIVATE_TO_* stat items Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 20/20] mm/slub: cleanup and repurpose some " Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:20 ` [PATCH v2 00/20] slab: replace cpu (partial) slabs with sheaves Vlastimil Babka
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