Re: [TECH TOPIC] Implementing malloc

On Thu, Jul 09, 2026 at 06:11:21PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I agree that many memory allocations benefit from providing more semantic
> information to both the compiler and the runtime, as you suggest.
> What I don't think we benefit from is "And you have to pass this magic
> GFP_KERNEL argument too.  Unless it's GFP_ATOMIC or something".

You know that most people are using kzmalloc_obj() these days and so
they don't pass GFP_KERNEL...

regards,
dan carpenter