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

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 16 patches in this subsystem on virtualization, ordered by date desc.

• COOLING5d [PATCH v9 07/37] mm: thread user_addr through page allocator for cache-friendly zeroing
  2026-05-29 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 07/37] mm: thread user_addr through page allocator for cache-friendly zeroing
  2026-05-20 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD22d [PATCH v7 06/31] mm: thread user_addr through page allocator for cache-friendly zeroing
  2026-05-12 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD25d [PATCH resend v6 03/30] mm: thread user_addr through page allocator for cache-friendly zeroing
  2026-05-11 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD26d [PATCH v6 03/30] mm: thread user_addr through page allocator for cache-friendly zeroing
  2026-05-11 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD40d [PATCH RFC v4 03/22] mm: thread user_addr through page allocator for cache-friendly zeroing
  2026-04-26 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD41d [PATCH RFC v3 01/19] mm: thread user_addr through page allocator for cache-friendly zeroing
  2026-04-21 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD51d Re: [PATCH RFC 3/9] mm: add __GFP_PREZEROED flag and folio_test_clear_prezeroed()
  2026-04-13 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE645d REVIEWED: 9 (8M) [PATCH v3 3/4] mm: BUG_ON to avoid NULL deference while __GFP_NOFAIL fails
  2024-08-17 · Barry Song <hidden>
• STALE670d [PATCH v2 3/4] mm: BUG_ON to avoid NULL deference while __GFP_NOFAIL fails
  2024-07-31 · Barry Song <hidden>
• STALE670d [PATCH 3/5] mm: BUG_ON to avoid NULL deference while __GFP_NOFAIL fails
  2024-07-24 · Barry Song <hidden>
• STALE2181d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v5 1/2] mm/slab: Use memzero_explicit() in kzfree()
  2020-06-16 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE2181d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v5 2/2] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()
  2020-06-16 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE2180d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v4 2/3] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()
  2020-06-16 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE2180d [PATCH v4 1/3] mm/slab: Use memzero_explicit() in kzfree()
  2020-06-16 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE2182d [PATCH 1/2] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()
  2020-04-13 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• COLD40d [PATCH RFC v4 03/22] mm: thread user_addr through page allocator for cache-friendly zeroing
  2026-04-26 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>