On Tue, 10 Apr 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > If we want to get rid of the concept of constructors, it's doable, > but somebody needs to do the work to show what the effects will be. How do you envision dealing with the SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU slab caches? Those must have a defined state of the objects at all times and a constructor is required for that. And their use of RCU is required for numerous lockless lookup algorithms in the kernhel.
