linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 1/4] Documentation: kernel-parameters: remove noaliencache

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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 11:41:47 +0800
From: sxwjean@...com
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	Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@...driver.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/4] Documentation: kernel-parameters: remove noaliencache

From: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@...driver.com>

Since slab allocator has already been removed. There is no users of
the noaliencache parameter, so let's remove it.

Suggested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@...driver.com>
---
v6: Clean up typos.
v5: Collect Reviewed-by tag.
v4: Collect Reviewed-by tag.
v3: Remove the changes for slab_max_order.
v2: Add changes for removing "noaliencache".
    https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20231122143603.85297-1-sxwjean@me.com/
v1: Remove slab_max_order.
    https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20231120091214.150502-2-sxwjean@me.com/
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 65731b060e3f..9f94baeb2f82 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3740,10 +3740,6 @@
 	no5lvl		[X86-64,RISCV] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
 			kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
 
-	noaliencache	[MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
-			caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
-			but will impact performance.
-
 	noalign		[KNL,ARM]
 
 	noaltinstr	[S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
-- 
2.34.1