[PATCH] mm/slab: rename CONFIG_SLAB to CONFIG_SLAB_DEPRECATED

[Helge Deller]

On 5/24/23 02:29, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2023, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>
>> As discussed at LSF/MM [1] [2] and with no objections raised there,
>> deprecate the SLAB allocator. Rename the user-visible option so that
>> users with CONFIG_SLAB=y get a new prompt with explanation during make
>> oldconfig, while make olddefconfig will just switch to SLUB.
>>
>> In all defconfigs with CONFIG_SLAB=y remove the line so those also
>> switch to SLUB. Regressions due to the switch should be reported to
>> linux-mm and slab maintainers.
>>
>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/4b9fc9c6-b48c-198f-5f80-811a44737e5f@suse.cz/
>> [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/932201/
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka at suse.cz>
>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes at google.com>

I did tested SLUB on parisc with 32- and 64-bit kernel, so you may add:

Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller at gmx.de> # parisc

Helge