linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] 9p: remove SLAB_MEM

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Message-ID: <ZeXIUlqnp23qTxo2@codewreck.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 22:10:42 +0900
From: asmadeus@...ewreck.org
To: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@...ux.dev>
Cc: ericvh@...nel.org, lucho@...kov.net, linux_oss@...debyte.com,
	v9fs@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, vbabka@...e.cz,
	roman.gushchin@...ux.dev, Xiongwei.Song@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 9p: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage

Chengming Zhou wrote on Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 10:51:00AM +0800:
> On 2024/2/24 21:46, chengming.zhou@...ux.dev wrote:
> > From: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
> > 
> > The SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag is already a no-op as of 6.8-rc1, remove
> > its usage so we can delete it from slab. No functional change.
> 
> Update changelog to make it clearer:
> 
> The SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag used to be implemented in SLAB, which was
> removed as of v6.8-rc1, so it became a dead flag since the commit
> 16a1d968358a ("mm/slab: remove mm/slab.c and slab_def.h"). And the
> series[1] went on to mark it obsolete to avoid confusion for users.
> Here we can just remove all its users, which has no functional change.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240223-slab-cleanup-flags-v2-1-02f1753e8303@suse.cz/

Thanks for the updated text, this is a bit better.
I've updated your commit message with this and will push to Linus next
merge window in a couple of weeks, as you said there's no change so no
reason to submit a patch this late in the cycle.

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Dominique Martinet | Asmadeus