From: Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org>
To: "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>,
Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>, Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>,
Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 10/10] mm, slab: deprecate CONFIG_SLUB_TINY and reduce its Kconfig effects
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 15:39:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <avMpvYcc9-IddPWN@thinkstation> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261105-slub_tiny_rework-v3-10-0484ce59eabb@kernel.org>
On Thu, Nov 05, 2026 at 09:43:59AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote:
> At this point CONFIG_SLUB_TINY only affects the default value of
> slab_tiny_enabled which has a boot-time parameter. Thus deprecate it in
> the Kconfig description.
>
> Also remove its interactions with other Kconfig option, as they are not
> necessary:
>
> - KASAN, SLUB_DEBUG or SLUB_STATS support do not need !SLUB_TINY
>
> - KVFREE_RCU_BATCHED can simply depend on !TINY_RCU
>
> - various hardening options do not need to be excluded, although it's
> unlikely that somebody would enable those with extra memory overhead
> together with slab_tiny
>
> - SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT does not need to be selected, although it's likely
> to be used together
>
> Keep the "depends on EXPERT && !COMPILE_TEST" as there's no point making
> the deprecated option more visible.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
> ---
Looks good to me,
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Meta) <harry@kernel.org>
--
Cheers,
Harry / Hyeonggon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-10 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-05 8:43 [PATCH v3 00/10] replace CONFIG_SLUB_TINY with a slab_tiny boot parameter Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-11-05 8:43 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] slab, kunit: pin test slabs by an extra allocation Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-11-05 12:59 ` Harry Yoo
2026-11-05 8:43 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] kasan, " Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-11-05 13:03 ` Harry Yoo
2026-11-05 8:43 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] mm, slab: refactor slab_min/max_order handling Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-11-05 13:12 ` Harry Yoo
2026-11-05 8:43 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] mm, slab: introduce slab_debug=N Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-11-05 14:30 ` Harry Yoo
2026-11-05 14:36 ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-11-05 15:02 ` Harry Yoo
2026-11-05 8:43 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] mm, slab: rework KMALLOC_RECLAIM handling of SLUB_TINY Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-11-08 17:00 ` Harry Yoo
2026-11-05 8:43 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] mm, slab: make SLUB_TINY handling dynamic for sizing decisions Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-11-08 17:58 ` Harry Yoo
2026-11-05 8:43 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] mm, slab: convert CONFIG_SLUB_TINY checks to kmem_cache_debug() Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-11-10 14:12 ` Harry Yoo
2026-11-05 8:43 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] mm, slab: remove remaining compile-time checks for CONFIG_SLUB_TINY Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-11-10 14:19 ` Harry Yoo
2026-11-05 8:43 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] mm, slab: add slab_tiny boot param Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-11-10 14:24 ` Harry Yoo
2026-11-05 8:43 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] mm, slab: deprecate CONFIG_SLUB_TINY and reduce its Kconfig effects Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-11-10 14:39 ` Harry Yoo [this message]
2026-11-10 14:46 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] replace CONFIG_SLUB_TINY with a slab_tiny boot parameter Harry Yoo
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