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

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH] mempool: optimize mempool resizing
  2026-06-25 19:50 · 0 replies in 7d · Vitaly Wool <hidden>

Recent patches

Most-recent 7 patches in this subsystem on linux-nvme, ordered by date desc.

• HOTtoday [PATCH] mempool: optimize mempool resizing
  2026-06-25 · Vitaly Wool <hidden>
• STALE474d Re: Kernel oops with 6.14 when enabling TLS
  2025-03-03 · Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE488d Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] mm, slab: call kvfree_rcu_barrier() from kmem_cache_destroy()
  2025-02-25 · Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
• STALE1351d 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>
• STALE1359d 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>
• STALE1360d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v4 1/6] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, mechanically
  2022-10-07 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1360d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v3 1/5] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>