linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH V2] mm/slab: remove unused slab_early

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Message-ID: <544c9bd1-c262-1915-de79-d6e00109eff4@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 27 Dec 2022 17:46:40 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:     Gou Hao <gouhao@...ontech.com>
cc:     cl@...ux.com, penberg@...nel.org, iamjoonsoo.kim@....com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, vbabka@...e.cz,
        roman.gushchin@...ux.dev, 42.hyeyoo@...il.com,
        keescook@...omium.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
        mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] mm/slab: remove unused slab_early_init

On Sun, 18 Dec 2022, gouhao@...ontech.com wrote:

> From: Gou Hao <gouhao@...ontech.com>
> 
> 'slab_early_init' was introduced by 'commit e0a42726794f
> ("[PATCH] mm/slab.c: fix early init assumption")', this
> flag was used to prevent off-slab caches being created
> so early during bootup.
> 
> The only user of 'slab_early_init' was removed in 'commit
>  3217fd9bdf00 ("mm/slab: make criteria for off slab
> determination robust and simple")'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gou Hao <gouhao@...ontech.com>
> Acked-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>