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Merge tag 'slab-for-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab

Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:

 - SLUB: delayed freezing of CPU partial slabs (Chengming Zhou)

   Freezing is an operation involving double_cmpxchg() that makes a slab
   exclusive for a particular CPU. Chengming noticed that we use it also
   in situations where we are not yet installing the slab as the CPU
   slab, because freezing also indicates that the slab is not on the
   shared list. This results in redundant freeze/unfreeze operation and
   can be avoided by marking separately the shared list presence by
   reusing the PG_workingset flag.

   This approach neatly avoids the issues described in 9b1ea29bc0
   ("Revert "mm, slub: consider rest of partial list if acquire_slab()
   fails"") as we can now grab a slab from the shared list in a quick
   and guaranteed way without the cmpxchg_double() operation that
   amplifies the lock contention and can fail.

   As a result, lkp has reported 34.2% improvement of
   stress-ng.rawudp.ops_per_sec

 - SLAB removal and SLUB cleanups (Vlastimil Babka)

   The SLAB allocator has been deprecated since 6.5 and nobody has
   objected so far. We agreed at LSF/MM to wait until the next LTS,
   which is 6.6, so we should be good to go now.

   This doesn't yet erase all traces of SLAB outside of mm/ so some dead
   code, comments or documentation remain, and will be cleaned up
   gradually (some series are already in the works).

   Removing the choice of allocators has already allowed to simplify and
   optimize the code wiring up the kmalloc APIs to the SLUB
   implementation.

* tag 'slab-for-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab: (34 commits)
  mm/slub: free KFENCE objects in slab_free_hook()
  mm/slub: handle bulk and single object freeing separately
  mm/slub: introduce __kmem_cache_free_bulk() without free hooks
  mm/slub: fix bulk alloc and free stats
  mm/slub: optimize free fast path code layout
  mm/slub: optimize alloc fastpath code layout
  mm/slub: remove slab_alloc() and __kmem_cache_alloc_lru() wrappers
  mm/slab: move kmalloc() functions from slab_common.c to slub.c
  mm/slab: move kmalloc_slab() to mm/slab.h
  mm/slab: move kfree() from slab_common.c to slub.c
  mm/slab: move struct kmem_cache_node from slab.h to slub.c
  mm/slab: move memcg related functions from slab.h to slub.c
  mm/slab: move pre/post-alloc hooks from slab.h to slub.c
  mm/slab: consolidate includes in the internal mm/slab.h
  mm/slab: move the rest of slub_def.h to mm/slab.h
  mm/slab: move struct kmem_cache_cpu declaration to slub.c
  mm/slab: remove mm/slab.c and slab_def.h
  mm/mempool/dmapool: remove CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB ifdefs
  mm/slab: remove CONFIG_SLAB code from slab common code
  cpu/hotplug: remove CPUHP_SLAB_PREPARE hooks
  ...
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arch slab updates for 6.8 2024-01-09 10:36:07 -08:00
block vfs-6.8.super 2024-01-08 10:43:51 -08:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto This push fixes a regression in ahash and hides the Kconfig sub-options for the jitter RNG. 2023-11-09 17:04:58 -08:00
Documentation slab updates for 6.8 2024-01-09 10:36:07 -08:00
drivers Scheduler changes for v6.8: 2024-01-08 19:49:17 -08:00
fs vfs-6.8.iov_iter 2024-01-08 11:43:04 -08:00
include slab updates for 6.8 2024-01-09 10:36:07 -08:00
init As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree and 2023-11-02 20:53:31 -10:00
io_uring vfs-6.8.rw 2024-01-08 11:11:51 -08:00
ipc Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are 2023-11-02 19:38:47 -10:00
kernel slab updates for 6.8 2024-01-09 10:36:07 -08:00
lib slab updates for 6.8 2024-01-09 10:36:07 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm slab updates for 6.8 2024-01-09 10:36:07 -08:00
net vfs-6.8.iov_iter 2024-01-08 11:43:04 -08:00
rust Kbuild updates for v6.7 2023-11-04 08:07:19 -10:00
samples eventfd: simplify eventfd_signal() 2023-11-28 14:08:38 +01:00
scripts get_maintainer: remove stray punctuation when cleaning file emails 2023-12-31 10:57:42 -08:00
security vfs-6.8.iov_iter 2024-01-08 11:43:04 -08:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix mute and mic-mute LEDs for HP ProBook 440 G6 2024-01-04 08:59:03 +01:00
tools cgroup: Changes for v6.8 2024-01-08 20:04:02 -08:00
usr arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture 2023-09-11 08:13:17 +00:00
virt vfs-6.8.misc 2024-01-08 10:26:08 -08:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: generate kernel.spec in rpmbuild/SPECS/ 2023-10-03 20:49:09 +09:00
.mailmap 12 hotfixes. 2 are cc:stable and the remainder either address post-6.7 2024-01-05 13:46:18 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS slab updates for 6.8 2024-01-09 10:36:07 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Locking changes for v6.8: 2024-01-08 18:19:44 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.7 2024-01-07 12:18:38 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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