The patch titled Subject: mm/slub: remove obsolete comment has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-slub-remove-impertinent-comment.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: "Canjiang Lu" <canjiang.lu@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/slub: remove obsolete comment The obsolete comment removed in this patch was introduced by 51df1142816e4 ("slub: Dynamically size kmalloc cache allocations"). I paste related modification from that commit: +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA + /* + * Allocate kmem_cache_node properly from the kmem_cache slab. + * kmem_cache_node is separately allocated so no need to + * update any list pointers. + */ + temp_kmem_cache_node = kmem_cache_node; + kmem_cache_node = kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache, GFP_NOWAIT); + memcpy(kmem_cache_node, temp_kmem_cache_node, kmem_size); + + kmem_cache_bootstrap_fixup(kmem_cache_node); + + caches++; +#else + /* + * kmem_cache has kmem_cache_node embedded and we moved it! + * Update the list heads + */ + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kmem_cache->local_node.partial); + list_splice(&temp_kmem_cache->local_node.partial, &kmem_cache->local_node.partial); +#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kmem_cache->local_node.full); + list_splice(&temp_kmem_cache->local_node.full, &kmem_cache->local_node.full); +#endif As we can see there're used to distinguish the difference handling between NUMA/non-NUMA configuration in the original commit. I think it doesn't make any sense in current implementation which is placed above kmem_cache_node = bootstrap(&boot_kmem_cache_node); So maybe it's better to remove them now? Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5af26f58.1c69fb81.1be0e.c520SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Canjiang Lu <canjiang.lu@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slub.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/slub.c~mm-slub-remove-impertinent-comment mm/slub.c --- a/mm/slub.c~mm-slub-remove-impertinent-comment +++ a/mm/slub.c @@ -4241,12 +4241,6 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void) SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, 0, 0); kmem_cache = bootstrap(&boot_kmem_cache); - - /* - * Allocate kmem_cache_node properly from the kmem_cache slab. - * kmem_cache_node is separately allocated so no need to - * update any list pointers. - */ kmem_cache_node = bootstrap(&boot_kmem_cache_node); /* Now we can use the kmem_cache to allocate kmalloc slabs */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from canjiang.lu@xxxxxxxxxxx are -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html