linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slab: remove /proc/slab

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Date:   Thu, 16 May 2019 15:53:04 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, tcharding <me@...in.cc>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, penberg@...nel.org,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, iamjoonsoo.kim@....com,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: remove /proc/slab_allocators

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 12:58 PM Qian Cai <cai@....pw> wrote:
>
> Also, since it seems no one had noticed when it was totally broken
> more than 2-year ago - see the commit fcf88917dd43 ("slab: fix a crash
> by reading /proc/slab_allocators"), probably nobody cares about it
> anymore due to the decline of the SLAB. Just remove it entirely.

With a diff summary like this:

 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 232 deletions(-)

I can not resist this patch, and have applied it. Thanks,

                 Linus