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 21 patches in this subsystem on linux-btrfs, ordered by date desc.

• STALE1359d [PATCH v2 16/16] slab: Restore __alloc_size attribute to __kmalloc_track_caller
  2022-09-23 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1359d [PATCH v2 15/16] mm: Make ksize() a reporting-only function
  2022-09-23 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1359d [PATCH v2 13/16] mempool: Use kmalloc_size_roundup() to match ksize() usage
  2022-09-23 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1359d [PATCH v2 02/16] slab: Introduce kmalloc_size_roundup()
  2022-09-23 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1359d [PATCH v2 01/16] slab: Remove __malloc attribute from realloc functions
  2022-09-23 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1367d [PATCH 12/12] slab: Restore __alloc_size attribute to __kmalloc_track_caller
  2022-09-22 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1367d [PATCH 11/12] slab: Remove __malloc attribute from realloc functions
  2022-09-22 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1367d [PATCH 01/12] slab: Introduce kmalloc_size_roundup()
  2022-09-22 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1924d [PATCH] [PATCH] mm, slub: enable slub_debug static key when creating cache with explicit debug flags
  2021-03-15 · Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
• STALE2194d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v4 2/3] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()
  2020-06-16 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE2194d [PATCH v4 1/3] mm/slab: Use memzero_explicit() in kzfree()
  2020-06-16 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE2197d [PATCH 1/2] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()
  2020-04-13 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE2456d [PATCH v2 2/2] mm, sl[aou]b: guarantee natural alignment for kmalloc(power-of-two)
  2019-08-26 · Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
• STALE2456d [PATCH v2 1/2] mm, sl[ou]b: improve memory accounting
  2019-08-26 · Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
• STALE3394d [DEBUG PATCH 1/2] mm, debug: report when GFP_NO{FS,IO} is used explicitly from memalloc_no{fs,io}_{save,restore} context
  2017-01-06 · Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
• STALE3468d [DEBUG PATCH 1/2] mm, debug: report when GFP_NO{FS,IO} is used explicitly from memalloc_no{fs,io}_{save,restore} context
  2016-12-16 · Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
• STALE4239d [PATCH] mm: check memory reclaim bugs caused fs reentrance
  2014-11-11 · Dmitry Monakhov <hidden>
• STALE4902d [PATCH V2] mm/slab: add a leak decoder callback
  2013-01-16 · Liu Bo <hidden>
• STALE4901d [PATCH] mm/slab: add a leak decoder callback
  2013-01-14 · Liu Bo <hidden>
• STALE5767d [patch v2 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc
  2010-09-02 · David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
• STALE5767d [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc
  2010-08-24 · David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>