On 11/24/23 01:45, David Rientjes wrote: > On Mon, 20 Nov 2023, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > >> Changes from v1: >> - Added new Patch 01 to fix up kernel docs build (thanks Marco Elver) >> - Additional changes to Kconfig user visible texts in Patch 02 (thanks Kees >> Cook) >> - Whitespace fixes and other fixups (thanks Kees) >> >> The SLAB allocator has been deprecated since 6.5 and nobody has objected >> so far. As we agreed at LSF/MM, we should wait with the removal until >> the next LTS kernel is released. This is now determined to be 6.6, and >> we just missed 6.7, so now we can aim for 6.8 and start exposing the >> removal to linux-next during the 6.7 cycle. If nothing substantial pops >> up, will start including this in slab-next later this week. >> > > I agree with the decision to remove the SLAB allocator, same as at LSF/MM. > Thanks for doing this, Vlastimil! > > And thanks for deferring this until the next LTS kernel, it will give any > last minute hold outs a full year to raise any issues in their switch to > SLUB if they only only upgrade to LTS kernels at which point we'll have > done our due diligence to make people aware of SLAB's deprecation in 6.6. > > I've completed testing on v1 of the series, so feel free to add > > Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks! And others too. I've now pushed this series to slab/for-6.8/slab-removal and slab/for-next
