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Date:   Fri, 10 Mar 2023 11:32:06 +0100
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Cc:     Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>,
        Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        rcu@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.dev,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 4/7] mm, pagemap: remove SLOB and SLQB from comments and documentation

SLOB has been removed and SLQB never merged, so remove their mentions
from comments and documentation of pagemap.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst | 6 +++---
 fs/proc/page.c                           | 5 ++---
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst
index b5f970dc91e7..bb4aa897a773 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst
@@ -91,9 +91,9 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags
    The page is being locked for exclusive access, e.g. by undergoing read/write
    IO.
 7 - SLAB
-   The page is managed by the SLAB/SLOB/SLUB/SLQB kernel memory allocator.
-   When compound page is used, SLUB/SLQB will only set this flag on the head
-   page; SLOB will not flag it at all.
+   The page is managed by the SLAB/SLUB kernel memory allocator.
+   When compound page is used, either will only set this flag on the head
+   page..
 10 - BUDDY
     A free memory block managed by the buddy system allocator.
     The buddy system organizes free memory in blocks of various orders.
diff --git a/fs/proc/page.c b/fs/proc/page.c
index 6249c347809a..1356aeffd8dc 100644
--- a/fs/proc/page.c
+++ b/fs/proc/page.c
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ u64 stable_page_flags(struct page *page)
 	/*
 	 * pseudo flags for the well known (anonymous) memory mapped pages
 	 *
-	 * Note that page->_mapcount is overloaded in SLOB/SLUB/SLQB, so the
+	 * Note that page->_mapcount is overloaded in SLAB/SLUB, so the
 	 * simple test in page_mapped() is not enough.
 	 */
 	if (!PageSlab(page) && page_mapped(page))
@@ -166,8 +166,7 @@ u64 stable_page_flags(struct page *page)
 
 	/*
 	 * Caveats on high order pages: page->_refcount will only be set
-	 * -1 on the head page; SLUB/SLQB do the same for PG_slab;
-	 * SLOB won't set PG_slab at all on compound pages.
+	 * -1 on the head page; SLAB/SLUB do the same for PG_slab;
 	 */
 	if (PageBuddy(page))
 		u |= 1 << KPF_BUDDY;
-- 
2.39.2