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

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Message-ID: <0f330796-480e-0b78-c2f4-006eac38d7df@suse.cz>
Date:   Mon, 2 Jan 2023 09:39:28 +0100
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     gouhao@...ontech.com, cl@...ux.com, penberg@...nel.org,
        rientjes@...gle.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@....com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, roman.gushchin@...ux.dev,
        42.hyeyoo@...il.com, keescook@...omium.org
Cc:     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 12/18/22 13:31, 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>

Thanks, added to slab/for-6.3/cleanups

> ---
>  mm/slab.c | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> index 7a269db050ee..ede1f29fd81c 100644
> --- a/mm/slab.c
> +++ b/mm/slab.c
> @@ -220,7 +220,6 @@ static inline void fixup_objfreelist_debug(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
>  static inline void fixup_slab_list(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
>  				struct kmem_cache_node *n, struct slab *slab,
>  				void **list);
> -static int slab_early_init = 1;
>  
>  #define INDEX_NODE kmalloc_index(sizeof(struct kmem_cache_node))
>  
> @@ -1249,8 +1248,6 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
>  	slab_state = PARTIAL_NODE;
>  	setup_kmalloc_cache_index_table();
>  
> -	slab_early_init = 0;
> -
>  	/* 5) Replace the bootstrap kmem_cache_node */
>  	{
>  		int nid;