linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: isp1760: remove SLAB_MEM

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Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 13:16:14 +0000
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@...ux.dev>
Cc: rui.silva@...aro.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, vbabka@...e.cz,
	roman.gushchin@...ux.dev, Xiongwei.Song@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: isp1760: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage

On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 11:02:24AM +0800, Chengming Zhou wrote:
> On 2024/2/24 21:52, 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.

Please submit a version 2 with this updated changelog.

thanks,

greg k-h