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[v2,1/3] mm, slab: deprecate SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag

Message ID 20240223-slab-cleanup-flags-v2-1-02f1753e8303@suse.cz
State New
Headers
Series cleanup of SLAB_ flags |

Commit Message

Vlastimil Babka Feb. 23, 2024, 6:27 p.m. UTC 
  The SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag used to be implemented in SLAB, which was
removed.  SLUB instead relies on the page allocator's NUMA policies.
Change the flag's value to 0 to free up the value it had, and mark it
for full removal once all users are gone.

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240131172027.10f64405@gandalf.local.home/
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
---
 include/linux/slab.h | 5 +++--
 mm/slab.h            | 1 -
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

David Rientjes Feb. 24, 2024, 9 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri, 23 Feb 2024, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> The SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag used to be implemented in SLAB, which was
> removed.  SLUB instead relies on the page allocator's NUMA policies.
> Change the flag's value to 0 to free up the value it had, and mark it
> for full removal once all users are gone.
> 
> Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240131172027.10f64405@gandalf.local.home/
> Reviewed-and-tested-by: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@windriver.com>
> Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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Patch

diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index b5f5ee8308d0..b1675ff6b904 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -96,8 +96,6 @@ 
  */
 /* Defer freeing slabs to RCU */
 #define SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU	((slab_flags_t __force)0x00080000U)
-/* Spread some memory over cpuset */
-#define SLAB_MEM_SPREAD		((slab_flags_t __force)0x00100000U)
 /* Trace allocations and frees */
 #define SLAB_TRACE		((slab_flags_t __force)0x00200000U)
 
@@ -164,6 +162,9 @@ 
 #endif
 #define SLAB_TEMPORARY		SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT	/* Objects are short-lived */
 
+/* Obsolete unused flag, to be removed */
+#define SLAB_MEM_SPREAD		((slab_flags_t __force)0U)
+
 /*
  * ZERO_SIZE_PTR will be returned for zero sized kmalloc requests.
  *
diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
index 54deeb0428c6..f4534eefb35d 100644
--- a/mm/slab.h
+++ b/mm/slab.h
@@ -469,7 +469,6 @@  static inline bool is_kmalloc_cache(struct kmem_cache *s)
 			      SLAB_STORE_USER | \
 			      SLAB_TRACE | \
 			      SLAB_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS | \
-			      SLAB_MEM_SPREAD | \
 			      SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE | \
 			      SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | \
 			      SLAB_TEMPORARY | \