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 22 patches in this subsystem on linux-crypto, ordered by date desc.

• COLD48d [PATCH 1/2] mm/slab: Add kvfree_atomic() helper
  2026-04-28 · "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
• STALE581d [PATCH v2 06/19] crypto: rsassa-pkcs1 - Migrate to sig_alg backend
  2024-09-10 · Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
• STALE797d [PATCH v2 1/1] mm: change inlined allocation helpers to account at the call site
  2024-04-15 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE808d [PATCH 1/1] mm: change inlined allocation helpers to account at the call site
  2024-04-04 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE892d [PATCH 3/3] treewide: Update LLVM Bugzilla links
  2024-01-09 · Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
• STALE1119d Re: [PATCH v3 08/11] slub: Replace cmpxchg_double()
  2023-05-24 · Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
• STALE1230d Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] percpu: Wire up cmpxchg128
  2023-02-06 · Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
• STALE1312d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v3 1/3] treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  2022-11-17 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1312d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v2 1/3] treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  2022-11-14 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1314d [PATCH v1 1/5] treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  2022-10-22 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1344d REVIEWED: 28 (27M) [PATCH v6 1/7] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1
  2022-10-10 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1352d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v5 1/7] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1
  2022-10-08 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1352d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v4 1/6] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, mechanically
  2022-10-07 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1352d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v3 1/5] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE2197d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v5 1/2] mm/slab: Use memzero_explicit() in kzfree()
  2020-06-16 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE2197d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v5 2/2] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()
  2020-06-16 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE2195d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v4 2/3] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()
  2020-06-16 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE2195d [PATCH v4 1/3] mm/slab: Use memzero_explicit() in kzfree()
  2020-06-16 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE2198d [PATCH 1/2] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()
  2020-04-13 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE4115d [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck
  2015-03-11 · Sasha Levin <hidden>
• STALE5877d [PATCH 3/4] mm: Move ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN and ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to <linux/slub_def.h>
  2010-05-19 · David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
• STALE6334d [PATCH] Export symbol ksize()
  2009-02-10 · Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>