Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: rename CONFIG_SLAB to CONFIG_SLAB_DEPRECATED
Helge Deller <[email protected]>
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On 5/24/23 02:29, David Rientjes wrote: > On Tue, 23 May 2023, 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. >> >> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ >> [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/932201/ >> >> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]> I did tested SLUB on parisc with 32- and 64-bit kernel, so you may add: Acked-by: Helge Deller <[email protected]> # parisc Helge