1. 30 Jun, 2023 39 commits
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'slab-for-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab · 632f54b4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:
      
       - SLAB deprecation:
      
         Following the discussion at LSF/MM 2023 [1] and no objections, the
         SLAB allocator is deprecated by renaming the config option (to make
         its users notice) to CONFIG_SLAB_DEPRECATED with updated help text.
         SLUB should be used instead. Existing defconfigs with CONFIG_SLAB are
         also updated.
      
       - SLAB_NO_MERGE kmem_cache flag (Jesper Dangaard Brouer):
      
         There are (very limited) cases where kmem_cache merging is
         undesirable, and existing ways to prevent it are hacky. Introduce a
         new flag to do that cleanly and convert the existing hacky users.
         Btrfs plans to use this for debug kernel builds (that use case is
         always fine), networking for performance reasons (that should be very
         rare).
      
       - Replace the usage of weak PRNGs (David Keisar Schmidt):
      
         In addition to using stronger RNGs for the security related features,
         the code is a bit cleaner.
      
       - Misc code cleanups (SeongJae Parki, Xiongwei Song, Zhen Lei, and
         zhaoxinchao)
      
      Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/932201/ [1]
      
      * tag 'slab-for-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab:
        mm/slab_common: use SLAB_NO_MERGE instead of negative refcount
        mm/slab: break up RCU readers on SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU example code
        mm/slab: add a missing semicolon on SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU example code
        mm/slab_common: reduce an if statement in create_cache()
        mm/slab: introduce kmem_cache flag SLAB_NO_MERGE
        mm/slab: rename CONFIG_SLAB to CONFIG_SLAB_DEPRECATED
        mm/slab: remove HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
        mm/slab_common: Replace invocation of weak PRNG
        mm/slab: Replace invocation of weak PRNG
        slub: Don't read nr_slabs and total_objects directly
        slub: Remove slabs_node() function
        slub: Remove CONFIG_SMP defined check
        slub: Put objects_show() into CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG enabled block
        slub: Correct the error code when slab_kset is NULL
        mm/slab: correct return values in comment for _kmem_cache_create()
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