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

• STALE121d Re: [next-20260216]NULL pointer dereference in drain_obj_stock() (RCU free path)
  2026-02-23 · Harry Yoo <hidden>
• STALE1151d [PATCH v6 3/3] mm: vmscan: refactor updating current->reclaim_state
  2023-04-13 · Yosry Ahmed <hidden>
• STALE1175d [PATCH v5 2/2] mm: vmscan: refactor reclaim_state helpers
  2023-04-05 · Yosry Ahmed <hidden>
• STALE1177d [PATCH v4 2/3] mm: vmscan: refactor updating reclaimed pages in reclaim_state
  2023-04-04 · Yosry Ahmed <hidden>
• STALE1182d [PATCH v3 2/3] mm: vmscan: refactor updating reclaimed pages in reclaim_state
  2023-03-31 · Yosry Ahmed <hidden>
• STALE1190d [PATCH v2 2/3] mm: vmscan: refactor updating reclaimed pages in reclaim_state
  2023-03-09 · Yosry Ahmed <hidden>
• STALE1204d [PATCH v1 1/2] mm: vmscan: refactor updating reclaimed pages in reclaim_state
  2023-02-28 · Yosry Ahmed <hidden>
• STALE1233d [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] mm: vmscan: refactor updating reclaimed pages in reclaim_state
  2023-02-02 · Yosry Ahmed <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies linux-next: manual merge of the akpm-current tree with the xfs tree
  2021-08-11 · Stephen Rothwell <hidden>
• STALE2037d REVIEWED: 15 (14M) [PATCH v4 2/3] mm: Extract might_alloc() debug check
  2020-11-25 · Daniel Vetter <hidden>
• STALE2039d REVIEWED: 9 (8M) [PATCH 2/3] mm: Extract might_alloc() debug check
  2020-11-20 · Daniel Vetter <hidden>
• STALE2017d [PATCH 04/65] mm: Extract might_alloc() debug check
  2020-10-23 · Daniel Vetter <hidden>
• STALE2257d Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 09/38] usercopy: Mark kmalloc caches as usercopy caches
  2020-04-07 · Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
• STALE2257d Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 09/38] usercopy: Mark kmalloc caches as usercopy caches
  2020-01-30 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE2409d [PATCH 14/28] mm: reclaim_state records pages reclaimed, not slabs
  2019-10-31 · Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
• STALE2424d [PATCH 13/26] mm: reclaim_state records pages reclaimed, not slabs
  2019-10-09 · Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
• STALE2460d [PATCH v2 2/2] mm, sl[aou]b: guarantee natural alignment for kmalloc(power-of-two)
  2019-08-26 · Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
• STALE2460d [PATCH v2 1/2] mm, sl[ou]b: improve memory accounting
  2019-08-26 · Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
• STALE2510d [PATCH 06/24] mm: reclaim_state records pages reclaimed, not slabs
  2019-08-01 · Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
• STALE2634d [RFC 2/2] mm, sl[aou]b: test whether kmalloc() alignment works as expected
  2019-03-19 · Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
• STALE2634d [RFC 1/2] mm, sl[aou]b: guarantee natural alignment for kmalloc(power-of-two)
  2019-03-19 · Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
• STALE2257d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 09/38] usercopy: Mark kmalloc caches as usercopy caches
  2018-01-11 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE2257d [PATCH 07/38] usercopy: WARN() on slab cache usercopy region violations
  2018-01-11 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE2257d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 06/38] usercopy: Prepare for usercopy whitelisting
  2018-01-11 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE3078d [PATCH 06/36] usercopy: Mark kmalloc caches as usercopy caches
  2018-01-09 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE3078d [PATCH 05/36] usercopy: WARN() on slab cache usercopy region violations
  2018-01-09 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE3078d [PATCH 04/36] usercopy: Prepare for usercopy whitelisting
  2018-01-09 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE3198d [PATCH v3 03/31] usercopy: Mark kmalloc caches as usercopy caches
  2017-09-20 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE3198d [PATCH v3 02/31] usercopy: Enforce slab cache usercopy region boundaries
  2017-09-20 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE3198d [PATCH v3 01/31] usercopy: Prepare for usercopy whitelisting
  2017-09-20 · Kees Cook <hidden>