Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: improve kmem_cache_alloc_bulk

"Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.io-uring,org.freedesktop.lists.dri-devel,org.kernel.vger.bpf,org.kernel.vger.linux-arm-msm,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.netdev,org.kvack.linux-mm
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On 5/27/26 09:02, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The kmem_cache_alloc_bulk return value is weird.  It returns the number
> of allocated objects, but that must always be 0 or the requested number
> based on the implementations and the handling in the callers, but that
> assumption is not actually documented anywhere, which confuses automated
> review tools.
> 
> Fix this by returning a bool if the allocation succeeded and adding a
> kerneldoc comment explaining the API.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

Would 0 / -ENOMEM be more like what people would expect? I guess both that
and bool are better than the current API.
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