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On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So I literally mean "get rid of slab_is_available()" - and the fact that
> SLAB itself _internally_ has some internal state is irrelevant (SLUB and
> SLOB do not, for example).

SLUB has slab_state which is necessary for bootstrap of NUMA and sysfs
support.