[PATCH 0/3] supplyment of slab allocator removal

From: sxwjean
Date: Thu Nov 30 2023 - 22:15:43 EST


From: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,

Patch 1 is to remove an unused parameter. This patch acutually is v3, but
it is not reasonable to add v3 tag in the cover letter, so I put the
change history inside the patch.

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Patch 2 is to replace slub_$params with slab_$params.
Vlastimil Babka pointed out we should use "slab_$param" as the primary
prefix for long-term plan. Please see [1] for more infomation.

This patch is to do that. However, the patch is big, I'm not sure if
everything is proper in it, so I added "RFC" in the patch title. For more
information please see the commit message of patch.

I did the basic tests with qemu, which passed values by sl[au]b_max_order,
sl[au]b_min_order, sl[au]b_min_objects and sl[au]b_debug in command line.
The values looks correct by printing them out before calculating orders.

One thing I'm not sure about the forth parameter of __setup_param(),
Is it correct to set the parameter to 0 directly?

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Patch 3 is not related to slab allocator removal. It's to correct the
description of default value of slub_min_objects in
Documentation/mm/slub.rst.

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Regards,
Xiongwei

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/7512b350-4317-21a0-fab3-4101bc4d8f7a@xxxxxxx/

Xiongwei Song (3):
Documentation: kernel-parameters: remove noaliencache
mm/slub: unify all slab/slub parameters with "slab_$param"
mm/slub: correct the default slub_min_objects value in doc

.../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 48 +++---
Documentation/mm/slub.rst | 2 +-
drivers/misc/lkdtm/heap.c | 2 +-
mm/Kconfig.debug | 6 +-
mm/slab.h | 16 +-
mm/slab_common.c | 8 +-
mm/slub.c | 142 +++++++++---------
7 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 114 deletions(-)

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