Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] Documentation: kernel-parameters: remove noaliencache

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Wed Dec 06 2023 - 10:36:00 EST


On 12/3/23 01:14, sxwjean@xxxxxx wrote:
> From: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Since slab allocator has already been removed. There is no users about

"There are no users of the noaliencache parameter" ...

> noaliencache, so let's remove it.
>
> Suggested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

> ---
> Hi Hyeonggon & Christoph,
>
> I didn't pick your Acked-by tags because I removed the changes for
> slab_max_order. Would you like to allow me to add them in this patch?
>
> Regards,
> Xiongwei
>
> v4: Collect Reviewed-by tag.
> v3: Remove the changes for slab_max_order.
> v2: Add changes for removing "noaliencache".
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20231122143603.85297-1-sxwjean@xxxxxx/
> v1: Remove slab_max_order.
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20231120091214.150502-2-sxwjean@xxxxxx/
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ----
> 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index 65731b060e3f..9f94baeb2f82 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -3740,10 +3740,6 @@
> no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
> kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
>
> - noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
> - caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
> - but will impact performance.
> -
> noalign [KNL,ARM]
>
> noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching