Re: [PATCH v2 09/21] mm/slab: remove mm/slab.c and slab_def.h

Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-12-06T09:31:44Z

On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 07:34:20PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Remove the SLAB implementation. Update CREDITS.
> Also update and properly sort the SLOB entry there.
>
> RIP SLAB allocator (1996 - 2024)
>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> ---
> CREDITS | 12 +-
> include/linux/slab_def.h | 124 --
> mm/slab.c | 4005 ----------------------------------------------
> 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4133 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>

> diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
> index f33a33fd2371..943a73e96149 100644
> --- a/CREDITS
> +++ b/CREDITS
> @@ -9,10 +9,6 @@
> Linus
> ----------
>
> -N: Matt Mackal
> -E: mpm@selenic.com
> -D: SLOB slab allocator

by the way I just realized that commit 16e943bf8db
("MAINTAINERS: SLAB maintainer update") incorrectly put her lastname
(Mackall is correct), maybe update that too?

> N: Matti Aarnio
> E: mea@nic.funet.fi
> D: Alpha systems hacking, IPv6 and other network related stuff
> @@ -1572,6 +1568,10 @@ S: Ampferstr. 50 / 4
> S: 6020 Innsbruck
> S: Austria
>
> +N: Mark Hemment
> +E: markhe@nextd.demon.co.uk
> +D: SLAB allocator implementation
> +
> N: Richard Henderson
> E: rth@twiddle.net
> E: rth@cygnus.com
> @@ -2437,6 +2437,10 @@ D: work on suspend-to-ram/disk, killing duplicates from ioctl32,
> D: Altera SoCFPGA and Nokia N900 support.
> S: Czech Republic
>
> +N: Olivia Mackal
> +E: olivia@selenic.com
> +D: SLOB slab allocator
> +
> N: Paul Mackerras
> E: paulus@samba.org
> D: PPP driver
>
> --
> 2.42.1
>
>