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-trace-kernel (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COLD48d [PATCH v1 01/11] rcu: Rename struct rcu_gp_oldstate to rcu_gp_seq
  2026-06-24 · Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>
• STALE104d [RFC PATCH v4 03/27] mm/page_alloc: add numa_zone_allowed() and wire it up
  2026-02-22 · Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
• STALE603d REVIEWED: 39 (38M) [PATCH 3/6] lib: Move KUnit tests into tests/ subdirectory
  2024-10-11 · David Gow <hidden>
• STALE758d [PATCH v1 1/2] cleanup.h guard: Rename DEFINE_ prefix to DECLARE_
  2024-08-28 · Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
• STALE723d [PATCH] lib: Move KUnit tests into tests/ subdirectory
  2024-07-20 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE767d [PATCH v5 2/8] cleanup.h guard: Rename DEFINE_ prefix to DECLARE_
  2024-06-27 · Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
• STALE832d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v7 18/38] mm: slub: Disable KMSAN when checking the padding bytes
  2024-06-21 · Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE832d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v7 17/38] mm: slub: Let KMSAN access metadata
  2024-06-21 · Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE832d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v7 13/38] kmsan: Support SLAB_POISON
  2024-06-21 · Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE835d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v6 17/39] mm: slub: Let KMSAN access metadata
  2024-06-21 · Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE835d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 13/39] kmsan: Support SLAB_POISON
  2024-06-21 · Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE835d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 18/39] mm: slub: Disable KMSAN when checking the padding bytes
  2024-06-21 · Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE831d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v2 6/7] mm, slab: add static key for should_failslab()
  2024-06-19 · Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
• STALE836d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v5 16/37] mm: slub: Let KMSAN access metadata
  2024-06-19 · Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE836d [PATCH v5 17/37] mm: slub: Disable KMSAN when checking the padding bytes
  2024-06-19 · Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE836d [PATCH v5 13/37] kmsan: Support SLAB_POISON
  2024-06-19 · Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE725d Re: [PATCH 00/14] replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple kmem_cache_free callback
  2024-06-17 · Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
• STALE725d Re: [PATCH 00/14] replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple kmem_cache_free callback
  2024-06-17 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE725d Re: [PATCH 00/14] replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple kmem_cache_free callback
  2024-06-14 · Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
• STALE837d [PATCH v4 12/35] kmsan: Support SLAB_POISON
  2024-06-13 · Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE837d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 15/35] mm: slub: Let KMSAN access metadata
  2024-06-13 · Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE837d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 16/35] mm: slub: Unpoison the memchr_inv() return value
  2024-06-13 · Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE854d [PATCH RFC 3/4] mm, slab: add static key for should_failslab()
  2024-05-31 · Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
• STALE860d [PATCH 1/2] mm: printk: introduce new format %pGs for slab flags
  2024-05-22 · Sukrit Bhatnagar <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH 7/9] mm: Free up PG_slab
  2024-04-02 · Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE996d [PATCH 3/3] treewide: Update LLVM Bugzilla links
  2024-01-09 · Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
• STALE844d [PATCH v3 12/34] kmsan: Support SLAB_POISON
  2023-12-13 · Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE844d [PATCH v3 15/34] mm: slub: Unpoison the memchr_inv() return value
  2023-12-13 · Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE844d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 14/34] mm: slub: Let KMSAN access metadata
  2023-12-13 · Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE1026d [PATCH v2 16/33] mm: slub: Let KMSAN access metadata
  2023-11-21 · Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>