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 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-arm-kernel (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• STALE222d [RFC PATCH v2 3/8] slab: Introduce SLAB_SET_PKEY
  2025-08-15 · Kevin Brodsky <hidden>
• STALE512d [RFC PATCH 3/8] slab: Introduce SLAB_SET_PKEY
  2025-02-03 · Kevin Brodsky <hidden>
• STALE578d [RFC PATCH] mm/slab: Avoid build bug for calls to kmalloc with a large constant
  2024-11-01 · Dave Kleikamp <hidden>
• STALE620d [PATCH] mm: krealloc: Fix MTE false alarm in __do_krealloc
  2024-10-25 · Qun-Wei Lin <hidden>
• STALE578d [RFC PATCH v1 06/57] mm: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption
  2024-10-14 · Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
• STALE637d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3] SLUB: Add support for per object memory policies
  2024-10-01 · Christoph Lameter via B4 Relay <devnull+cl.gentwo.org@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH v2] SLUB: Add support for per object memory policies
  2024-09-12 · "Christoph Lameter (Ampere)" <cl@gentwo.org>
• STALE663d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] SLUB: Add support for per object memory policies
  2024-09-06 · Christoph Lameter via B4 Relay <devnull+cl.gentwo.org@kernel.org>
• STALE739d Re: [PATCH v3 12/14] arm64: realm: Support nonsecure ITS emulation shared
  2024-06-07 · Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
• STALE907d [PATCH 3/3] treewide: Update LLVM Bugzilla links
  2024-01-09 · Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
• STALE951d [PATCH v2 3/3] scripts/gdb: Remove exception handling and refine print format
  2023-11-29 · Kuan-Ying Lee <hidden>
• STALE952d [PATCH 3/3] scripts/gdb: Remove exception handling and refine print format
  2023-11-27 · Kuan-Ying Lee <hidden>
• STALE1029d [PATCH v2 7/8] scripts/gdb/slab: Add slab support
  2023-08-08 · Kuan-Ying Lee <hidden>
• STALE1034d [PATCH v7 2/9] swiotlb: make io_tlb_default_mem local to swiotlb.c
  2023-08-01 · Petr Tesarik <hidden>
• STALE1072d [PATCH v6 2/9] swiotlb: make io_tlb_default_mem local to swiotlb.c
  2023-07-27 · Petr Tesarik <hidden>
• STALE431d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v7 16/17] mm: slab: Reduce the kmalloc() minimum alignment if DMA bouncing possible
  2023-06-12 · Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
• STALE431d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v7 04/17] mm/slab: Limit kmalloc() minimum alignment to dma_get_cache_alignment()
  2023-06-12 · Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
• STALE431d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v7 03/17] mm/slab: Simplify create_kmalloc_cache() args and make it static
  2023-06-12 · Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
• STALE431d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 01/17] mm/slab: Decouple ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN from ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
  2023-06-12 · Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
• STALE1119d Re: [PATCH v6 01/17] mm/slab: Decouple ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN from ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
  2023-06-09 · Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
• STALE1119d [PATCH v6 16/17] mm: slab: Reduce the kmalloc() minimum alignment if DMA bouncing possible
  2023-05-31 · Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
• STALE1119d [PATCH v6 04/17] mm/slab: Limit kmalloc() minimum alignment to dma_get_cache_alignment()
  2023-05-31 · Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
• STALE1119d [PATCH v6 03/17] mm/slab: Simplify create_kmalloc_cache() args and make it static
  2023-05-31 · Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
• STALE1119d [PATCH v6 01/17] mm/slab: Decouple ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN from ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
  2023-05-31 · Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
• STALE1134d [PATCH v5 14/15] mm: slab: Reduce the kmalloc() minimum alignment if DMA bouncing possible
  2023-05-24 · Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
• STALE1134d [PATCH v5 04/15] mm/slab: Limit kmalloc() minimum alignment to dma_get_cache_alignment()
  2023-05-24 · Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
• STALE1134d [PATCH v5 03/15] mm/slab: Simplify create_kmalloc_cache() args and make it static
  2023-05-24 · Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
• STALE1134d [PATCH v5 01/15] mm/slab: Decouple ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN from ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
  2023-05-24 · Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
• STALE1141d Re: [PATCH v4 01/15] mm/slab: Decouple ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN from ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
  2023-05-19 · Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
• STALE1141d Re: [PATCH v4 14/15] mm: slab: Reduce the kmalloc() minimum alignment if DMA bouncing possible
  2023-05-19 · Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>