Re: [PATCH v2 02/21] mm/slab: remove CONFIG_SLAB from all Kconfig and Makefile

Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-12-06T00:08:27Z

On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 7:14 PM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> On 12/5/23 05:15, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 07:34:13PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> >
> > Looks good to me,
> > Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
>
> Thanks.
>
> > Nit:
> >
> > - Some arch configs enables DEBUG_SLAB
> > - Some documentations refers to {DEBUG_,}SLAB config (i.e. "enable
> > DEBUG_SLAB for debugging", or "use SLUB instead of SLAB for reducing OS
> > jitter", ... etc)
> > - fs/orangefs/orangefs-kernel.h uses #if (defined CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB)
> >
> > $ git grep DEBUG_SLAB arch/
> > arch/arm/configs/ep93xx_defconfig:CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y
> > arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig:CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y
> > arch/microblaze/configs/mmu_defconfig:CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y
> >
> > $ git grep SLAB Documentation/
> >
> > [... some unrelated lines removed ...]
>
> Yep, I've wrote in the cover letter that to keep the series reasonable and
> limit Ccing other subsystems on some patches, not everything is cleaned up
> thoroughly

Ah, I see, Okay.

> and is left for further work (some already started coming in
> from others) that can be submitted to relevant subsystems.

I'll focus more on correctness rather than doing further work while reviewing.

> > Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst:PFA_SPREAD_SLAB, and appropriately marked slab caches will allocate
> > Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst: pages allocated by the SLAB or SLUB allocator are tracked. A copy
> > Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.rst: CONFIG_SLAB=y, thus avoiding the slab allocator's periodic
> > Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst: The page is managed by the SLAB/SLUB kernel memory allocator.
> > Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst:For slab, both software KASAN modes support SLUB and SLAB allocators, while
> > Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst:of the sample interval, the next allocation through the main allocator (SLAB or
> > Documentation/mm/slub.rst:The basic philosophy of SLUB is very different from SLAB. SLAB
> > Documentation/mm/slub.rst: Sorry SLAB legacy issues)
> > Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst: - DEBUG_SLAB can find a variety of memory allocation and use errors; it
> > Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst: ``CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB``, ``CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC``, ``CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES``,
> > Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc: CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB set).
> > Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/4.Coding.rst: - DEBUG_SLAB può trovare svariati errori di uso e di allocazione di memoria;
> > Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/submit-checklist.rst: ``CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB``, ``CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC``, ``CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES``,
> > Documentation/translations/ja_JP/SubmitChecklist:12: CONFIG_PREEMPT, CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT, CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB,
> > Documentation/translations/zh_CN/dev-tools/kasan.rst:对于slab，两种软件KASAN模式都支持SLUB和SLAB分配器，而基于硬件标签的
> > Documentation/translations/zh_CN/process/4.Coding.rst: - DEBUG_SLAB 可以发现各种内存分配和使用错误；它应该用于大多数开发内核。
> > Documentation/translations/zh_CN/process/submit-checklist.rst: ``CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB``, ``CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC``, ``CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES``,
> > Documentation/translations/zh_TW/dev-tools/kasan.rst:對於slab，兩種軟件KASAN模式都支持SLUB和SLAB分配器，而基於硬件標籤的
> > Documentation/translations/zh_TW/process/4.Coding.rst: - DEBUG_SLAB 可以發現各種內存分配和使用錯誤；它應該用於大多數開發內核。
> > Documentation/translations/zh_TW/process/submit-checklist.rst: ``CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB``, ``CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC``, ``CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES``,
> >
> > --
> > Hyeonggon
>