This is a spin-off of preparatory patches from the percpu array series [1] as they are IMHO useful on their own and simple enough to target 6.8, while the percpu array is still a RFC. To avoid non-trivial conflict, the series is also rebased on top of the SLAB removal branch. [2] [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231129-slub-percpu-caches-v3-0-6bcf536772bc@xxxxxxx/ [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab.git/log/?h=slab/for-6.8/slab-removal --- Vlastimil Babka (4): mm/slub: fix bulk alloc and free stats mm/slub: introduce __kmem_cache_free_bulk() without free hooks mm/slub: handle bulk and single object freeing separately mm/slub: free KFENCE objects in slab_free_hook() mm/slub.c | 109 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 4a38e93b3a7e6669c44929fed918b1494e902dd7 change-id: 20231204-slub-cleanup-hooks-f5f54132a61c Best regards, -- Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>