With sheaves, this is no longer part of the allocation fastpath. For the same reason, also mark the call to it from slab_alloc_node() as unlikely(). Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Hao Li Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260610-slab_alloc_flags-v2-3-7190909db118@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) --- mm/slub.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index d762cbe5d040..8845e15cb152 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -4519,8 +4519,8 @@ static void *___slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags, int node, return object; } -static __always_inline void *__slab_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *s, - gfp_t gfpflags, int node, unsigned long addr, size_t orig_size) +static void *__slab_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags, int node, + unsigned long addr, size_t orig_size) { void *object; @@ -4926,7 +4926,7 @@ static __fastpath_inline void *slab_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *s, struct list object = alloc_from_pcs(s, gfpflags, node); - if (!object) + if (unlikely(!object)) object = __slab_alloc_node(s, gfpflags, node, addr, orig_size); maybe_wipe_obj_freeptr(s, object); -- 2.54.0