Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: rename CONFIG_SLAB to CONFIG_SLAB_DEPRECATED

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On 5/24/23 02:29, David Rientjes wrote:
On Tue, 23 May 2023, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

As discussed at LSF/MM [1] [2] and with no objections raised there,
deprecate the SLAB allocator. Rename the user-visible option so that
users with CONFIG_SLAB=y get a new prompt with explanation during make
oldconfig, while make olddefconfig will just switch to SLUB.

In all defconfigs with CONFIG_SLAB=y remove the line so those also
switch to SLUB. Regressions due to the switch should be reported to
linux-mm and slab maintainers.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/4b9fc9c6-b48c-198f-5f80-811a44737e5f@xxxxxxx/
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/932201/

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

I did tested SLUB on parisc with 32- and 64-bit kernel, so you may add:

Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> # parisc

Helge




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