mirror of
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
synced 2025-01-15 21:23:23 +00:00
149b6fa228
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>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.