Re: [RFC PATCH 06/14] mm/slub: pass additional args to alloc_slab_page

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On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 10:59:25AM +0000, Matteo Rizzo wrote:
> From: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This is refactoring in preparation for SLAB_VIRTUAL.
> 
> The implementation of SLAB_VIRTUAL needs access to struct kmem_cache in
> alloc_slab_page in order to take unused slabs from the slab freelist,
> which is per-cache.
> 
> In addition to that it passes two different sets of GFP flags.
> meta_gfp_flags is used for the memory backing the metadata region and
> page tables, and gfp_flags for the data memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

-- 
Kees Cook



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