Re: [PATCH] net: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage

From: Simon Horman
Date: Tue Feb 27 2024 - 12:11:34 EST


On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 04:55:01PM +0800, Chengming Zhou wrote:
> On 2024/2/24 21:49, 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>

Thanks Chengming Zhou,

this seems reasonable to me. But I think it would be best to post
a v2 of this patch with the updated patch description (which is very
helpful, BTW).

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