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Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:
- mempool_alloc_bulk() support for upcoming users in the block layer
that need to allocate multiple objects at once with the mempool's
guaranteed progress semantics, which is not achievable with an
allocation single objects in a loop. Along with refactoring and
various improvements (Christoph Hellwig)
- Preparations for the upcoming separation of struct slab from struct
page, mostly by removing the struct folio layer, as the purpose of
struct folio has shifted since it became used in slab code (Matthew
Wilcox)
- Modernisation of slab's boot param API usage, which removes some
unexpected parsing corner cases (Petr Tesarik)
- Refactoring of freelist_aba_t (now struct freelist_counters) and
associated functions for double cmpxchg, enabled by -fms-extensions
(Vlastimil Babka)
- Cleanups and improvements related to sheaves caching layer, that were
part of the full conversion to sheaves, which is planned for the next
release (Vlastimil Babka)
* tag 'slab-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab: (42 commits)
slab: Remove unnecessary call to compound_head() in alloc_from_pcs()
mempool: clarify behavior of mempool_alloc_preallocated()
mempool: drop the file name in the top of file comment
mempool: de-typedef
mempool: remove mempool_{init,create}_kvmalloc_pool
mempool: legitimize the io_schedule_timeout in mempool_alloc_from_pool
mempool: add mempool_{alloc,free}_bulk
mempool: factor out a mempool_alloc_from_pool helper
slab: Remove references to folios from virt_to_slab()
kasan: Remove references to folio in __kasan_mempool_poison_object()
memcg: Convert mem_cgroup_from_obj_folio() to mem_cgroup_from_obj_slab()
mempool: factor out a mempool_adjust_gfp helper
mempool: add error injection support
mempool: improve kerneldoc comments
mm: improve kerneldoc comments for __alloc_pages_bulk
fault-inject: make enum fault_flags available unconditionally
usercopy: Remove folio references from check_heap_object()
slab: Remove folio references from kfree_nolock()
slab: Remove folio references from kfree_rcu_sheaf()
slab: Remove folio references from build_detached_freelist()
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