On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 07:34:11PM +0100, 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've been testing this for a few weeks on my testing system, It passed a set of mm and slab tests on various SLUB configurations. For the series, feel free to add: Tested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@xxxxxxxxx> Thanks! > To keep the series reasonably sized and not pull in people from other > subsystems than mm and closely related ones, I didn't attempt to remove > every trace of unnecessary reference to dead config options in external > areas, nor in the defconfigs. Such cleanups can be sent to and handled > by respective maintainers after this is merged. > > Instead I have added some patches aimed to reap some immediate benefits > of the removal, mainly by not having to split some fastpath code between > slab_common.c and slub.c anymore. But that is also not an exhaustive > effort and I expect more cleanups and optimizations will follow later. > > Patch 09 updates CREDITS for the removed mm/slab.c. Please point out if > I missed someone not yet credited. > > Git version: https://git.kernel.org/vbabka/l/slab-remove-slab-v2r1
