Messages in this thread |  | | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | | Subject | improve the kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API v2 | | Date | Thu, 28 May 2026 11:34:31 +0200 |
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Hi all,
kmem_cache_alloc_bulk has a very unintuitive and undocumented return value convention. Fix that and add documentation.
Changes since v1: - fix compile in drm and test_meminit - document that 0-sized allocations fail
Diffstat: drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c | 6 +-- drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c | 13 +++---- include/linux/slab.h | 6 ++- io_uring/io_uring.c | 23 +++++-------- lib/test_meminit.c | 23 ++++++------- mm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c | 5 +- mm/kfence/kfence_test.c | 9 ++--- mm/slub.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++--------------- net/bpf/test_run.c | 7 +--- net/core/skbuff.c | 24 +++++++------ tools/include/linux/slab.h | 2 - tools/testing/shared/linux.c | 19 ++++------ 12 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)
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