linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/20] mm/slab: remove mm/slab.c and slab

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Date:   Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:06:01 +0100
From:   Marco Elver <elver@...gle.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>,
        Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>,
        Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.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>,
        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>, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, Mark Hemment <markhe@...td.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/20] mm/slab: remove mm/slab.c and slab_def.h

On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 at 20:14, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz> wrote:
>
> Remove the SLAB implementation. Update CREDITS (also sort the SLOB entry
> properly).
>
> RIP SLAB allocator (1996 - 2024)
>
> Cc: Mark Hemment <markhe@...td.demon.co.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> ---
>  CREDITS                  |   12 +-
>  include/linux/slab_def.h |  124 --
>  mm/slab.c                | 4026 --------------------------------------

There are still some references to it left (git grep mm/slab.c). It
breaks documentation in Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst