slab allocator · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
• M Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org>
• M Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
• R Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>
• R Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
• R David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
• R Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>

Paths

• F Documentation/admin-guide/mm/slab.rst
• F Documentation/mm/slab.rst
• F include/linux/mempool.h
• F include/linux/slab.h
• F lib/tests/slub_kunit.c
• F mm/failslab.c
• F mm/mempool.c
• F mm/slab.h
• F mm/slab_common.c
• F mm/slub.c
• F scripts/gdb/linux/slab.py
• F tools/cgroup/memcg_slabinfo.py
• F tools/include/linux/slab.h
• F tools/lib/slab.c
• F tools/mm/slabinfo-gnuplot.sh
• F tools/mm/slabinfo.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 14 patches in this subsystem on io-uring, ordered by date desc.

• COLD40d Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: improve kmem_cache_alloc_bulk
  2026-05-29 · "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>
• COLD40d [PATCH] mm/slab: improve kmem_cache_alloc_bulk
  2026-05-28 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD47d [PATCH] mm/slab: improve kmem_cache_alloc_bulk
  2026-05-27 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE529d [PATCH v2] kasan, mempool: don't store free stacktrace in io_alloc_cache objects.
  2025-01-27 · Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
• STALE529d [PATCH] kasan, mempool: don't store free stacktrace in io_alloc_cache objects.
  2025-01-22 · Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
• STALE598d [PATCH] slab: Fix too strict alignment check in create_cache()
  2024-11-20 · Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
• STALE599d Re: [PATCH 03/14] io_uring: specify freeptr usage for SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU io_kiocb cache
  2024-11-20 · Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
• STALE1405d [RFC PATCH 22/30] Code tagging based fault injection
  2022-08-30 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1405d [RFC PATCH 16/30] mm: enable slab allocation tagging for kmalloc and friends
  2022-08-30 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1405d [RFC PATCH 15/30] lib: introduce slab allocation tagging
  2022-08-30 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1405d [RFC PATCH 14/30] mm: prevent slabobj_ext allocations for slabobj_ext and kmem_cache objects
  2022-08-30 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1405d [RFC PATCH 13/30] mm/slab: introduce SLAB_NO_OBJ_EXT to avoid obj_ext creation
  2022-08-30 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1405d [RFC PATCH 11/30] mm: introduce slabobj_ext to support slab object extensions
  2022-08-30 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE2249d Re: [PATCH RFC} io_uring: io_kiocb alloc cache
  2020-05-13 · Pekka Enberg <hidden>