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Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka: - Add kfree_rcu_nolock() that can be used from contexts where spinning on a lock might be unsafe, such as a BPF program attached to an arbitrary function, or in NMI context. This complements the existing kfree_nolock() support (Harry Yoo) - Runtime instead of compile-time slabobj_ext sizing. Avoid wasting memory when memory allocation profiling is compiled but not enabled, with initial partial support to also avoid wasting memory for objcg pointers when those are not needed, while profiling is enabled (Vlastimil Babka) - Various non-urgent fixes, cleanups and optimizations (Hao Li, Hongling Zeng, Li RongQing, Li Xiasong, Seongjun Hong, Shengming Hu) * tag 'slab-for-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab: (31 commits) mm/slab, kfence, memcg: completely remove obj_ext for kfence objects mm/slab: stop allocating objcg pointers when unnecessary mm/slab: add cache_ and slab_needs_objcg() helpers mm/slab: stop exporting kvfree_rcu_barrier[_on_cache]() slub_kunit: extend the test for kfree_rcu_nolock() mm/slab: introduce kfree_rcu_nolock() mm/slab: introduce struct kvfree_rcu_head for kvfree_rcu batching mm/slab: reduce slabobj_ext memory with allocation profiling disabled mm/slab: introduce slab_obj_ext_has_codetag() mm/slab: allow kfree_rcu_sheaf() on PREEMPT_RT mm/slab: extend deferred free mechanism to handle rcu sheaves mm/slab: use call_rcu() in unknown context if irqs are enabled mm/slab: handle the !allow_spin case in kfree_rcu_sheaf() mm/slab: change struct slabobj_ext to a union mm/slab: replace slab.stride with obj_exts_in_object mm/slab: abstract slabobj_ext.ref access mm/slab: abstract slabobj_ext.objcg access mm/slab: make slab_obj_ext() determine object index mm: move struct slabobj_ext to mm/slab.h mm/slab: remove objs_per_slab() ...
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