linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v2 09/21] mm/slab: remove mm/slab.c and slab

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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2023 18:31:24 +0900
From: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
	Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
	Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/21] mm/slab: remove mm/slab.c and slab_def.h

On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 07:34:20PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Remove the SLAB implementation. Update CREDITS.
> Also update and properly sort the SLOB entry there.
> 
> RIP SLAB allocator (1996 - 2024)
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> ---
>  CREDITS                  |   12 +-
>  include/linux/slab_def.h |  124 --
>  mm/slab.c                | 4005 ----------------------------------------------
>  3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4133 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>

> diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
> index f33a33fd2371..943a73e96149 100644
> --- a/CREDITS
> +++ b/CREDITS
> @@ -9,10 +9,6 @@
>  			Linus
>  ----------
>  
> -N: Matt Mackal
> -E: mpm@...enic.com
> -D: SLOB slab allocator

by the way I just realized that commit 16e943bf8db
("MAINTAINERS: SLAB maintainer update") incorrectly put her lastname
(Mackall is correct), maybe update that too?

>  N: Matti Aarnio
>  E: mea@....funet.fi
>  D: Alpha systems hacking, IPv6 and other network related stuff
> @@ -1572,6 +1568,10 @@ S: Ampferstr. 50 / 4
>  S: 6020 Innsbruck
>  S: Austria
>  
> +N: Mark Hemment
> +E: markhe@...td.demon.co.uk
> +D: SLAB allocator implementation
> +
>  N: Richard Henderson
>  E: rth@...ddle.net
>  E: rth@...nus.com
> @@ -2437,6 +2437,10 @@ D: work on suspend-to-ram/disk, killing duplicates from ioctl32,
>  D: Altera SoCFPGA and Nokia N900 support.
>  S: Czech Republic
>  
> +N: Olivia Mackal
> +E: olivia@...enic.com
> +D: SLOB slab allocator
> +
>  N: Paul Mackerras
>  E: paulus@...ba.org
>  D: PPP driver
>
> -- 
> 2.42.1
> 
>