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[209.85.210.49]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id y5-20020a9d6345000000b006ab1ea1af9esm3174383otk.68.2023.05.23.02.22.37 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 23 May 2023 02:22:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-ot1-f49.google.com with SMTP id 46e09a7af769-6af89b0f3e5so1005667a34.0; Tue, 23 May 2023 02:22:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a81:5bc6:0:b0:562:16d7:e6eb with SMTP id p189-20020a815bc6000000b0056216d7e6ebmr15255699ywb.40.1684833736388; Tue, 23 May 2023 02:22:16 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20230523091139.21449-1-vbabka@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <20230523091139.21449-1-vbabka@suse.cz> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 11:22:04 +0200 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: rename CONFIG_SLAB to CONFIG_SLAB_DEPRECATED To: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , David Rientjes , Joonsoo Kim , Roman Gushchin , Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>, Shawn Guo , Sascha Hauer , Vladimir Zapolskiy , Andrew Lunn , Gregory Clement , Sebastian Hesselbarth , Tony Lindgren , Qin Jian , Thomas Bogendoerfer , Dinh Nguyen , "James E . J . Bottomley" , Helge Deller , Yoshinori Sato , Rich Felker , John Paul Adrian Glaubitz , "David S . Miller" , Richard Weinberger , Anton Ivanov , Johannes Berg , Andrew Morton , linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org Hi Vlastimil, Thanks for your patch! On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 11:12 AM 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. Technically, removing these lines from the defconfig files does not have any impact, right? And it removes one more sync point indicating the last time some defconfig files were (not) updated by their maintainers ;-) > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/4b9fc9c6-b48c-198f-5f80-811a44737e5f@suse.cz/ > [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/932201/ > > Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka > arch/m68k/configs/amiga_defconfig | 1 - > arch/m68k/configs/apollo_defconfig | 1 - > arch/m68k/configs/atari_defconfig | 1 - > arch/m68k/configs/bvme6000_defconfig | 1 - > arch/m68k/configs/hp300_defconfig | 1 - > arch/m68k/configs/mac_defconfig | 1 - > arch/m68k/configs/multi_defconfig | 1 - > arch/m68k/configs/mvme147_defconfig | 1 - > arch/m68k/configs/mvme16x_defconfig | 1 - > arch/m68k/configs/q40_defconfig | 1 - > arch/m68k/configs/sun3_defconfig | 1 - > arch/m68k/configs/sun3x_defconfig | 1 - Regardless, Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds