On 10/22/26 15:10, Harry Yoo wrote: > 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! I felt I should endorse this as it's the first time Harry sends the PR as the co-maintainer and not myself. I looked into cross-signing the tag but seems like git doesn't support that. Vlastimil > Thanks, > Harry > > ====================================== > > - 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) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > 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) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > slab changes for 7.4 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > 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(-) >