linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] kfence: allow change number of object by early parameter

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Message-Id: <20251218160831.566ae0c0e349e4d563c96c16@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:08:31 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc: yuan linyu <yuanlinyu@...or.com>, Alexander Potapenko
 <glider@...gle.com>, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, Huacai Chen
 <chenhuacai@...nel.org>, WANG Xuerui <kernel@...0n.name>,
 kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-mm@...ck.org, loongarch@...ts.linux.dev,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] kfence: allow change number of object by early
 parameter

On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 01:03:11 +0100 Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com> wrote:

> > >  include/linux/kfence.h  |   5 +-
> > >  mm/kfence/core.c        | 122 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> > >  mm/kfence/kfence.h      |   4 +-
> > >  mm/kfence/kfence_test.c |   2 +-
> >
> > Can you please add some documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst?
> >
> > Also, this should be described in
> > Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt.  That file doesn't
> > mention kfence at all, which might be an oversight.
> >
> > Meanwhile, I'll queue these patches in mm.git's mm-nonmm-unstable
> > branch for some testing.  I'll await reviewer input before proceeding
> > further.  Thanks.
> 
> Note, there was an v2 sent 5 hours after this v1, which I had
> commented on here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/aUPB18Xeh1BhF9GS@elver.google.com/

Ah, OK, thanks, I confused myself.  I'll drop the v1 series and shall
await a v3!