linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v2 01/21] mm/slab, docs: switch mm-api docs generation from slab.c to slub.c

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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2023 16:46:13 -0800 (PST)
From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, 
    Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>, 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/21] mm/slab, docs: switch mm-api docs generation
 from slab.c to slub.c

On Mon, 20 Nov 2023, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> The SLAB implementation is going to be removed, and mm-api.rst currently
> uses mm/slab.c to obtain kerneldocs for some API functions. Switch it to
> mm/slub.c and move the relevant kerneldocs of exported functions from
> one to the other. The rest of kerneldocs in slab.c is for static SLAB
> implementation-specific functions that don't have counterparts in slub.c
> and thus can be simply removed with the implementation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>

This is new to v2 so I didn't technically get to test it.  But no testing 
required on this one :)

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