Re: [PATCH v2 00/21] remove the SLAB allocator

Vlastimil Babka
2023-11-24T09:35:07Z

On 11/24/23 01:45, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2023, 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 agree with the decision to remove the SLAB allocator, same as at LSF/MM.
> Thanks for doing this, Vlastimil!
>
> And thanks for deferring this until the next LTS kernel, it will give any
> last minute hold outs a full year to raise any issues in their switch to
> SLUB if they only only upgrade to LTS kernels at which point we'll have
> done our due diligence to make people aware of SLAB's deprecation in 6.6.
>
> I've completed testing on v1 of the series, so feel free to add
>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> Tested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

Thanks! And others too.

I've now pushed this series to slab/for-6.8/slab-removal and slab/for-next