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| author | Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> | 2022-11-11 11:04:55 +0100 |
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| committer | Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> | 2022-12-01 00:09:20 +0100 |
| commit | 149b6fa228eda1d191abc440af7162264d716d90 (patch) | |
| tree | f37c26668fbcdeb9eb44f90242578175e175a2b4 /kernel/configs | |
| parent | be784ba861b93c5cd2c0565c5819c290675b50be (diff) | |
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mm, slob: rename CONFIG_SLOB to CONFIG_SLOB_DEPRECATED
As explained in [1], we would like to remove SLOB if possible.
- There are no known users that need its somewhat lower memory footprint
so much that they cannot handle SLUB (after some modifications by the
previous patches) instead.
- It is an extra maintenance burden, and a number of features are
incompatible with it.
- It blocks the API improvement of allowing kfree() on objects allocated
via kmem_cache_alloc().
As the first step, rename the CONFIG_SLOB option in the slab allocator
configuration choice to CONFIG_SLOB_DEPRECATED. Add CONFIG_SLOB
depending on CONFIG_SLOB_DEPRECATED as an internal option to avoid code
churn. This will cause existing .config files and defconfigs with
CONFIG_SLOB=y to silently switch to the default (and recommended
replacement) SLUB, while still allowing SLOB to be configured by anyone
that notices and needs it. But those should contact the slab maintainers
and linux-mm@kvack.org as explained in the updated help. With no valid
objections, the plan is to update the existing defconfigs to SLUB and
remove SLOB in a few cycles.
To make SLUB more suitable replacement for SLOB, a CONFIG_SLUB_TINY
option was introduced to limit SLUB's memory overhead.
There is a number of defconfigs specifying CONFIG_SLOB=y. As part of
this patch, update them to select CONFIG_SLUB and CONFIG_SLUB_TINY.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/b35c3f82-f67b-2103-7d82-7a7ba7521439@suse.cz/
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Cc: Janusz Krzysztofik <jmkrzyszt@gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>
Cc: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> # OMAP1
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com> # riscv k210
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> # arm
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/configs')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/configs/tiny.config | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/configs/tiny.config b/kernel/configs/tiny.config index 8a44b93da0f3..c2f9c912df1c 100644 --- a/kernel/configs/tiny.config +++ b/kernel/configs/tiny.config @@ -7,5 +7,6 @@ CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ=y # CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO is not set # CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4 is not set # CONFIG_SLAB is not set -# CONFIG_SLUB is not set -CONFIG_SLOB=y +# CONFIG_SLOB_DEPRECATED is not set +CONFIG_SLUB=y +CONFIG_SLUB_TINY=y |