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

• STALE652d Re: [PATCH 00/14] replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple kmem_cache_free callback
  2024-06-17 · Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
• STALE652d 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>
• STALE652d Re: [PATCH 00/14] replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple kmem_cache_free callback
  2024-06-14 · Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
• STALE923d [PATCH 3/3] treewide: Update LLVM Bugzilla links
  2024-01-09 · Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
• STALE1344d 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>
• STALE1344d 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>
• STALE1346d [PATCH v1 1/5] treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  2022-10-22 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1375d 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>
• STALE1383d 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>
• STALE1384d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v4 1/6] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, mechanically
  2022-10-07 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1384d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v3 1/5] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1761d [PATCH] mm: Remove HARDENED_USERCOPY_FALLBACK
  2021-09-21 · Stephen Kitt <hidden>
• STALE2228d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v5 1/2] mm/slab: Use memzero_explicit() in kzfree()
  2020-06-16 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE2228d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v5 2/2] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()
  2020-06-16 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE2227d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v4 2/3] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()
  2020-06-16 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE2227d [PATCH v4 1/3] mm/slab: Use memzero_explicit() in kzfree()
  2020-06-16 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE2288d ppc64 early slub caches have zero random value
  2020-04-17 · Michal Suchánek <hidden>
• STALE2229d [PATCH 1/2] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()
  2020-04-13 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE2311d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 1/2] mm, slub: prevent kmalloc_node crashes and memory leaks
  2020-03-20 · Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
• STALE2316d Re: [RFC 1/2] mm, slub: prevent kmalloc_node crashes and memory leaks
  2020-03-19 · Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
• STALE2316d Re: [RFC 1/2] mm, slub: prevent kmalloc_node crashes and memory leaks
  2020-03-18 · Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
• STALE2316d [RFC 1/2] mm, slub: prevent kmalloc_node crashes and memory leaks
  2020-03-18 · Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
• STALE2317d Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: Check for node_online in node_present_pages
  2020-03-18 · Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
• STALE2317d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 2/4] mm/slub: Use mem_node to allocate a new slab
  2020-03-18 · Srikar Dronamraju <hidden>
• STALE2318d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 2/4] mm/slub: Use mem_node to allocate a new slab
  2020-03-17 · Srikar Dronamraju <hidden>
• STALE2318d Slub: Increased mem consumption on cpu,mem-less node powerpc guest
  2020-03-17 · Bharata B Rao <hidden>
• STALE2318d Re: [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/numa: Set numa_node for all possible cpus
  2020-03-12 · Srikar Dronamraju <hidden>
• STALE2942d Re: Oops in kmem_cache_free() via bioset_exit() (was Re: [next-20180601][nvme][ppc] Kernel Oops is triggered when creating lvm snapshots on nvme disks)
  2018-06-28 · Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
• STALE2942d Oops in kmem_cache_free() via bioset_exit() (was Re: [next-20180601][nvme][ppc] Kernel Oops is triggered when creating lvm snapshots on nvme disks)
  2018-06-28 · Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
• STALE2968d Re: Fwd: [powerpc/Baremetal]Kernel OOPS while executing memory hotplug on Power8 baremetal
  2018-06-07 · Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>