linux/kernel
Vlastimil Babka 149b6fa228 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>
2022-12-01 00:09:20 +01:00
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bpf cgroup fixes for v6.1-rc1 2022-10-17 18:52:43 -07:00
cgroup cgroup fixes for v6.1-rc1 2022-10-17 18:52:43 -07:00
configs mm, slob: rename CONFIG_SLOB to CONFIG_SLOB_DEPRECATED 2022-12-01 00:09:20 +01:00
debug mm: remove vmacache 2022-09-26 19:46:18 -07:00
dma - Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in 2022-10-10 17:53:04 -07:00
entry entry: kmsan: introduce kmsan_unpoison_entry_regs() 2022-10-03 14:03:25 -07:00
events perf: Fix missing SIGTRAPs 2022-10-17 16:32:05 +02:00
futex freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic 2022-09-07 21:53:50 +02:00
gcov gcov: support GCC 12.1 and newer compilers 2022-10-20 21:27:22 -07:00
irq genirq: Provide generic_handle_domain_irq_safe(). 2022-09-19 15:08:38 +02:00
kcsan treewide: use get_random_bytes() when possible 2022-10-11 17:42:58 -06:00
livepatch Livepatching changes for 6.1 2022-10-10 11:36:19 -07:00
locking treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1 2022-10-11 17:42:55 -06:00
module module: tracking: Keep a record of tainted unloaded modules only 2022-10-10 12:16:19 -07:00
power Scheduler changes for v6.1: 2022-10-10 09:10:28 -07:00
printk printk: Mark __printk percpu data ready __ro_after_init 2022-09-29 15:20:52 +02:00
rcu Merge branches 'doc.2022.08.31b', 'fixes.2022.08.31b', 'kvfree.2022.08.31b', 'nocb.2022.09.01a', 'poll.2022.08.31b', 'poll-srcu.2022.08.31b' and 'tasks.2022.08.31b' into HEAD 2022-09-01 10:55:57 -07:00
sched sched: Introduce struct balance_callback to avoid CFI mismatches 2022-10-17 16:41:25 +02:00
time treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1 2022-10-11 17:42:55 -06:00
trace - Fix raw data handling when perf events are used in bpf 2022-10-23 10:14:45 -07:00
.gitignore
acct.c acct: use VMA iterator instead of linked list 2022-09-26 19:46:22 -07:00
async.c
audit_fsnotify.c audit: fix potential double free on error path from fsnotify_add_inode_mark 2022-08-22 18:50:06 -04:00
audit_tree.c audit: use fsnotify group lock helpers 2022-04-25 14:37:28 +02:00
audit_watch.c audit_init_parent(): constify path 2022-09-01 17:39:30 -04:00
audit.c audit: use time_after to compare time 2022-08-29 19:47:03 -04:00
audit.h audit: remove selinux_audit_rule_update() declaration 2022-09-07 11:30:15 -04:00
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c audit/stable-6.1 PR 20221003 2022-10-04 11:05:43 -07:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation 2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
capability.c
cfi.c cfi: Switch to -fsanitize=kcfi 2022-09-26 10:13:13 -07:00
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c MAINTAINERS: Add Paul as context tracking maintainer 2022-07-05 13:33:00 -07:00
cpu_pm.c context_tracking: Take IRQ eqs entrypoints over RCU 2022-07-05 13:32:59 -07:00
cpu.c Intel Trust Domain Extensions 2022-05-23 17:51:12 -07:00
crash_core.c vmcoreinfo: add kallsyms_num_syms symbol 2022-08-28 14:02:44 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c
delayacct.c delayacct: support re-entrance detection of thrashing accounting 2022-09-26 19:46:07 -07:00
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c - hfs and hfsplus kmap API modernization from Fabio Francesco 2022-10-12 11:00:22 -07:00
extable.c context_tracking: Take NMI eqs entrypoints over RCU 2022-07-05 13:32:59 -07:00
fail_function.c fail_function: fix wrong use of fei_attr_remove() 2022-09-11 21:55:11 -07:00
fork.c - hfs and hfsplus kmap API modernization from Fabio Francesco 2022-10-12 11:00:22 -07:00
freezer.c freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic 2022-09-07 21:53:50 +02:00
gen_kheaders.sh kbuild: build init/built-in.a just once 2022-09-29 04:40:15 +09:00
groups.c security: Add LSM hook to setgroups() syscall 2022-07-15 18:21:49 +00:00
hung_task.c sched: Fix more TASK_state comparisons 2022-09-30 16:50:39 +02:00
iomem.c
irq_work.c irq_work: use kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc() record callstack 2022-04-15 14:49:55 -07:00
jump_label.c jump_label: make initial NOP patching the special case 2022-06-24 09:48:55 +02:00
kallsyms_internal.h kallsyms: move declarations to internal header 2022-07-17 17:31:39 -07:00
kallsyms.c kcfi updates for v6.1-rc1 2022-10-03 17:11:07 -07:00
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kcov.c kcov: kmsan: unpoison area->list in kcov_remote_area_put() 2022-10-03 14:03:23 -07:00
kexec_core.c kexec: replace kmap() with kmap_local_page() 2022-09-11 21:55:08 -07:00
kexec_elf.c
kexec_file.c panic, kexec: make __crash_kexec() NMI safe 2022-09-11 21:55:06 -07:00
kexec_internal.h panic, kexec: make __crash_kexec() NMI safe 2022-09-11 21:55:06 -07:00
kexec.c panic, kexec: make __crash_kexec() NMI safe 2022-09-11 21:55:06 -07:00
kheaders.c
kmod.c
kprobes.c Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2022-10-03 13:02:49 -07:00
ksysfs.c kexec: turn all kexec_mutex acquisitions into trylocks 2022-09-11 21:55:06 -07:00
kthread.c signal: break out of wait loops on kthread_stop() 2022-10-09 16:01:59 -07:00
latencytop.c latencytop: use the last element of latency_record of system 2022-09-11 21:55:12 -07:00
Makefile kmsan: disable instrumentation of unsupported common kernel code 2022-10-03 14:03:20 -07:00
module_signature.c
notifier.c notifier: Add blocking/atomic_notifier_chain_register_unique_prio() 2022-05-19 19:30:30 +02:00
nsproxy.c Revert "fs/exec: allow to unshare a time namespace on vfork+exec" 2022-09-13 10:38:43 -07:00
padata.c
panic.c kernel/panic: Drop unblank_screen call 2022-09-01 16:55:35 +02:00
params.c
pid_namespace.c kernel: pid_namespace: use NULL instead of using plain integer as pointer 2022-04-29 14:38:00 -07:00
pid.c gfs2: Add glockfd debugfs file 2022-06-29 13:07:16 +02:00
profile.c kernel/profile.c: simplify duplicated code in profile_setup() 2022-09-11 21:55:12 -07:00
ptrace.c freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic 2022-09-07 21:53:50 +02:00
range.c
reboot.c kernel/reboot: Add SYS_OFF_MODE_RESTART_PREPARE mode 2022-10-04 15:59:36 +02:00
regset.c
relay.c relay: use kvcalloc to alloc page array in relay_alloc_page_array 2022-10-03 14:21:43 -07:00
resource_kunit.c
resource.c resource: Introduce alloc_free_mem_region() 2022-07-21 17:19:25 -07:00
rseq.c rseq: Kill process when unknown flags are encountered in ABI structures 2022-08-01 15:21:42 +02:00
scftorture.c
scs.c
seccomp.c seccomp: Add wait_killable semantic to seccomp user notifier 2022-05-03 14:11:58 -07:00
signal.c Scheduler changes for v6.1: 2022-10-10 09:10:28 -07:00
smp.c bitmap patches for v6.1-rc1 2022-10-10 12:49:34 -07:00
smpboot.c smpboot: use atomic_try_cmpxchg in cpu_wait_death and cpu_report_death 2022-09-11 21:55:10 -07:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c context_tracking: Take IRQ eqs entrypoints over RCU 2022-07-05 13:32:59 -07:00
stackleak.c stackleak: add on/off stack variants 2022-05-08 01:33:09 -07:00
stacktrace.c
static_call_inline.c
static_call.c
stop_machine.c Scheduler changes in this cycle were: 2022-05-24 11:11:13 -07:00
sys_ni.c kernel/sys_ni: add compat entry for fadvise64_64 2022-08-20 15:17:45 -07:00
sys.c Random number generator updates for Linux 6.1-rc1. 2022-10-10 10:41:21 -07:00
sysctl-test.c kernel/sysctl-test: use SYSCTL_{ZERO/ONE_HUNDRED} instead of i_{zero/one_hundred} 2022-09-08 16:56:45 -07:00
sysctl.c - Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in 2022-10-10 17:53:04 -07:00
task_work.c task_work: use try_cmpxchg in task_work_add, task_work_cancel_match and task_work_run 2022-09-11 21:55:10 -07:00
taskstats.c genetlink: start to validate reserved header bytes 2022-08-29 12:47:15 +01:00
torture.c
tracepoint.c tracepoint: Optimize the critical region of mutex_lock in tracepoint_module_coming() 2022-09-26 13:01:18 -04:00
tsacct.c taskstats: version 12 with thread group and exe info 2022-04-29 14:38:03 -07:00
ucount.c ucounts: Split rlimit and ucount values and max values 2022-05-18 18:24:57 -05:00
uid16.c
uid16.h
umh.c freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic 2022-09-07 21:53:50 +02:00
up.c
user_namespace.c ucounts: Split rlimit and ucount values and max values 2022-10-09 16:24:05 -07:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
usermode_driver.c blob_to_mnt(): kern_unmount() is needed to undo kern_mount() 2022-05-19 23:25:47 -04:00
utsname_sysctl.c kernel/utsname_sysctl.c: Fix hostname polling 2022-10-23 12:01:01 -07:00
utsname.c
watch_queue.c This was a moderately busy cycle for documentation, but nothing all that 2022-08-02 19:24:24 -07:00
watchdog_hld.c Revert "printk: add functions to prefer direct printing" 2022-06-23 18:41:40 +02:00
watchdog.c powerpc updates for 6.0 2022-08-06 16:38:17 -07:00
workqueue_internal.h
workqueue.c kcfi updates for v6.1-rc1 2022-10-03 17:11:07 -07:00