From: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/21] remove the SLAB allocator
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 11:45:43 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZXEx1/p9ejRmkVTS@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231120-slab-remove-slab-v2-0-9c9c70177183@suse.cz>
On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 07:34:11PM +0100, 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've been testing this for a few weeks on my testing system,
It passed a set of mm and slab tests on various SLUB configurations.
For the series, feel free to add:
Tested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Thanks!
> To keep the series reasonably sized and not pull in people from other
> subsystems than mm and closely related ones, I didn't attempt to remove
> every trace of unnecessary reference to dead config options in external
> areas, nor in the defconfigs. Such cleanups can be sent to and handled
> by respective maintainers after this is merged.
>
> Instead I have added some patches aimed to reap some immediate benefits
> of the removal, mainly by not having to split some fastpath code between
> slab_common.c and slub.c anymore. But that is also not an exhaustive
> effort and I expect more cleanups and optimizations will follow later.
>
> Patch 09 updates CREDITS for the removed mm/slab.c. Please point out if
> I missed someone not yet credited.
>
> Git version: https://git.kernel.org/vbabka/l/slab-remove-slab-v2r1
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-07 2:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-20 18:34 [PATCH v2 00/21] remove the SLAB allocator Vlastimil Babka
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 01/21] mm/slab, docs: switch mm-api docs generation from slab.c to slub.c Vlastimil Babka
2023-11-24 0:46 ` David Rientjes
2023-12-05 3:53 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 02/21] mm/slab: remove CONFIG_SLAB from all Kconfig and Makefile Vlastimil Babka
2023-12-05 4:15 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-12-05 10:14 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-12-06 0:08 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 03/21] KASAN: remove code paths guarded by CONFIG_SLAB Vlastimil Babka
2023-11-21 8:23 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-11-21 16:47 ` Andrey Konovalov
2023-12-05 4:26 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-12-05 4:48 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-12-05 10:16 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 04/21] KFENCE: cleanup kfence_guarded_alloc() after CONFIG_SLAB removal Vlastimil Babka
2023-12-06 8:01 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 05/21] mm/memcontrol: remove CONFIG_SLAB #ifdef guards Vlastimil Babka
2023-12-06 8:12 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 06/21] cpu/hotplug: remove CPUHP_SLAB_PREPARE hooks Vlastimil Babka
2023-12-01 11:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-12-06 8:28 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 07/21] mm/slab: remove CONFIG_SLAB code from slab common code Vlastimil Babka
2023-12-06 9:05 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 08/21] mm/mempool/dmapool: remove CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB ifdefs Vlastimil Babka
2023-12-06 9:10 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 09/21] mm/slab: remove mm/slab.c and slab_def.h Vlastimil Babka
2023-11-22 20:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2023-12-06 9:31 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-12-06 9:37 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 10/21] mm/slab: move struct kmem_cache_cpu declaration to slub.c Vlastimil Babka
2023-12-06 9:35 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 11/21] mm/slab: move the rest of slub_def.h to mm/slab.h Vlastimil Babka
2023-12-06 9:45 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 12/21] mm/slab: consolidate includes in the internal mm/slab.h Vlastimil Babka
2023-12-07 0:30 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 13/21] mm/slab: move pre/post-alloc hooks from slab.h to slub.c Vlastimil Babka
2023-12-07 0:43 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 14/21] mm/slab: move memcg related functions " Vlastimil Babka
2023-12-07 0:59 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 15/21] mm/slab: move struct kmem_cache_node " Vlastimil Babka
2023-12-07 1:11 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 16/21] mm/slab: move kfree() from slab_common.c " Vlastimil Babka
2023-12-05 4:38 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 17/21] mm/slab: move kmalloc_slab() to mm/slab.h Vlastimil Babka
2023-12-07 1:28 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 18/21] mm/slab: move kmalloc() functions from slab_common.c to slub.c Vlastimil Babka
2023-12-07 1:30 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 19/21] mm/slub: remove slab_alloc() and __kmem_cache_alloc_lru() wrappers Vlastimil Babka
2023-12-07 1:35 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 20/21] mm/slub: optimize alloc fastpath code layout Vlastimil Babka
2023-12-07 2:32 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-11-20 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 21/21] mm/slub: optimize free fast path " Vlastimil Babka
2023-12-07 2:40 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-11-24 0:45 ` [PATCH v2 00/21] remove the SLAB allocator David Rientjes
2023-11-24 9:26 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-12-07 2:45 ` Hyeonggon Yoo [this message]
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