From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>,
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: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 10:26:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2d0626b2-793c-315f-dc93-af021bd5cb85@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4d53ec4-482d-23ec-b73f-dfbc58ccc149@google.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-24 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-20 18:34 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 [this message]
2023-12-07 2:45 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
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