From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC911C7EE2F for ; Tue, 23 May 2023 09:26:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S236209AbjEWJ0q (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2023 05:26:46 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:49960 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S235945AbjEWJ0m (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2023 05:26:42 -0400 Received: from smtp-out2.suse.de (smtp-out2.suse.de [195.135.220.29]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 478AE118; Tue, 23 May 2023 02:26:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de (imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de [192.168.254.74]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-521) server-digest SHA512) (No client certificate requested) by smtp-out2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CB4FE2046A; Tue, 23 May 2023 09:26:38 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.cz; s=susede2_rsa; t=1684833998; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=VeeF7P+KGwlI3A5FT4CrZ0MRM4bqCgyOhKvZ384U0bw=; b=fmBOz2XQkJ4XHhSdGh/HXGxJtyCnKClPp4X6MRT6VR5eXrTQZK9h5N6Toqfk+0GeD98iT3 ZDhHKznDkq0Y5mKvraQucwn+Wh9FeAeuFGHWgkercVl2rETq+mQKxe64zKr8IJWHxFZCKE O8heNaNMsvS9Ka+Y0g3mOKcA0+3rNN0= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.cz; s=susede2_ed25519; t=1684833998; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=VeeF7P+KGwlI3A5FT4CrZ0MRM4bqCgyOhKvZ384U0bw=; b=zajPamxtH/5SGH5Qq9H7t7b5zBY3QOo+hV3Vqv/J4endm7d1fvc5Ztsv4d+st0dbhUYOxx LgejBO7uUF0wFbCQ== Received: from imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de (imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de [192.168.254.74]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-521) server-digest SHA512) (No client certificate requested) by imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4FA5A13588; Tue, 23 May 2023 09:26:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dovecot-director2.suse.de ([192.168.254.65]) by imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de with ESMTPSA id HfC5Es6GbGTEVAAAMHmgww (envelope-from ); Tue, 23 May 2023 09:26:38 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 11:26:38 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: rename CONFIG_SLAB to CONFIG_SLAB_DEPRECATED Content-Language: en-US To: Geert Uytterhoeven 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 References: <20230523091139.21449-1-vbabka@suse.cz> From: Vlastimil Babka In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org On 5/23/23 11:22, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > 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? Well, it doesn't, but I thought it's at least a useful heads-up for the maintainers in case some have specific reasons for keeping SLAB there. > And it removes one more sync point indicating the last time some > defconfig files were (not) updated by their maintainers ;-) Sure, I can exclude yours (and anyone else who'd prefer that), the ack on the deprecation itself is sufficient. >> [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 Thanks! > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert >