Re: [PATCH] overlayfs: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage

From: Chengming Zhou
Date: Mon Feb 26 2024 - 04:37:11 EST


On 2024/2/24 21:50, chengming.zhou@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag is already a no-op as of 6.8-rc1, remove
> its usage so we can delete it from slab. No functional change.

Update changelog to make it clearer:

The SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag used to be implemented in SLAB, which was
removed as of v6.8-rc1, so it became a dead flag since the commit
16a1d968358a ("mm/slab: remove mm/slab.c and slab_def.h"). And the
series[1] went on to mark it obsolete explicitly to avoid confusion
for users. Here we can just remove all its users, which has no any
functional change.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240223-slab-cleanup-flags-v2-1-02f1753e8303@xxxxxxx/

Thanks!

>
> Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/overlayfs/super.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
> index 36d4b8b1f784..a40fc7e05525 100644
> --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
> @@ -1503,7 +1503,7 @@ static int __init ovl_init(void)
> ovl_inode_cachep = kmem_cache_create("ovl_inode",
> sizeof(struct ovl_inode), 0,
> (SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT|
> - SLAB_MEM_SPREAD|SLAB_ACCOUNT),
> + SLAB_ACCOUNT),
> ovl_inode_init_once);
> if (ovl_inode_cachep == NULL)
> return -ENOMEM;