From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
lkp@01.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Subject: Re: [lkp-robot] [x86/kconfig] 81d3871900: BUG:unable_to_handle_kernel
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:48:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171012114843.d74096014cb88eedbaa7ac70@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAADWXX-M2uftDuCyAS+UMKACC6d-B+Zb-DDNGO76yRS5wuigHw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:54:57 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Oct 2017, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> >
> >> I failed to add the slab maintainers to CC on the last attempt. Trying
> >> again.
> >
> > Hmmm... Yea. SLOB is rarely used and tested. Good illustration of a simple
> > allocator and the K&R mechanism that was used in the early kernels.
>
> Should we finally just get rid of SLOB?
>
> I'm not happy about the whole "three different allocators" crap. It's
> been there for much too long, and I've tried to cut it down before.
> People always protest, but three different allocators, one of which
> gets basically no testing, is not good.
>
I am not aware of anyone using slob. We could disable it in Kconfig
for a year, see what the feedback looks like.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-12 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-10 12:15 [lkp-robot] [x86/kconfig] 81d3871900: BUG:unable_to_handle_kernel kernel test robot
2017-10-11 2:31 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-11 17:01 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-12 17:05 ` Christopher Lameter
2017-10-12 17:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-10-12 17:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-10-12 18:48 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2017-10-12 19:19 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-10-13 4:45 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-13 13:56 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2017-10-13 16:19 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-13 19:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-10-13 20:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-10-13 20:17 ` Jeffrey Walton
2017-10-13 15:22 ` Christopher Lameter
2017-10-13 15:37 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-10-17 7:33 ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-10-17 7:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-10-18 7:31 ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-10-18 10:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-10-18 13:15 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-10-19 2:14 ` Joonsoo Kim
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