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Jesper Dangaard Brouer 865762a811 slab/slub: adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API
Adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API before we have any real users.

Adjust API to return type 'int' instead of previously type 'bool'.  This
is done to allow future extension of the bulk alloc API.

A future extension could be to allow SLUB to stop at a page boundary, when
specified by a flag, and then return the number of objects.

The advantage of this approach, would make it easier to make bulk alloc
run without local IRQs disabled.  With an approach of cmpxchg "stealing"
the entire c->freelist or page->freelist.  To avoid overshooting we would
stop processing at a slab-page boundary.  Else we always end up returning
some objects at the cost of another cmpxchg.

To keep compatible with future users of this API linking against an older
kernel when using the new flag, we need to return the number of allocated
objects with this API change.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-22 11:58:44 -08:00
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acpi Merge branch 'acpi-pci' 2015-11-07 01:30:10 +01:00
asm-generic h8300 update for v4.4 2015-11-12 15:26:39 -08:00
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crypto Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2015-11-05 15:32:38 -08:00
drm drm/atomic: add a drm_atomic_clean_old_fb helper. 2015-11-17 13:02:14 +02:00
dt-bindings ARM: DT updates for v4.4 2015-11-10 15:06:26 -08:00
keys KEYS: Merge the type-specific data with the payload data 2015-10-21 15:18:36 +01:00
kvm s390: A bunch of fixes and optimizations for interrupt and time 2015-11-05 16:26:26 -08:00
linux slab/slub: adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API 2015-11-22 11:58:44 -08:00
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media [media] v4l2: add support for SDR transmitter 2015-10-20 15:40:50 -02:00
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net net: switchdev: fix return code of fdb_dump stub 2015-11-16 15:24:37 -05:00
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video drm/exynos/decon5433: add support for DECON-TV 2015-11-03 11:46:37 +09:00
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