Merge tag 'slab-for-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab

Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:

 - SLUB: delayed freezing of CPU partial slabs (Chengming Zhou)

   Freezing is an operation involving double_cmpxchg() that makes a slab
   exclusive for a particular CPU. Chengming noticed that we use it also
   in situations where we are not yet installing the slab as the CPU
   slab, because freezing also indicates that the slab is not on the
   shared list. This results in redundant freeze/unfreeze operation and
   can be avoided by marking separately the shared list presence by
   reusing the PG_workingset flag.

   This approach neatly avoids the issues described in 9b1ea29bc0d7
   ("Revert "mm, slub: consider rest of partial list if acquire_slab()
   fails"") as we can now grab a slab from the shared list in a quick
   and guaranteed way without the cmpxchg_double() operation that
   amplifies the lock contention and can fail.

   As a result, lkp has reported 34.2% improvement of
   stress-ng.rawudp.ops_per_sec

 - SLAB removal and SLUB cleanups (Vlastimil Babka)

   The SLAB allocator has been deprecated since 6.5 and nobody has
   objected so far. We agreed at LSF/MM to wait until the next LTS,
   which is 6.6, so we should be good to go now.

   This doesn't yet erase all traces of SLAB outside of mm/ so some dead
   code, comments or documentation remain, and will be cleaned up
   gradually (some series are already in the works).

   Removing the choice of allocators has already allowed to simplify and
   optimize the code wiring up the kmalloc APIs to the SLUB
   implementation.

* tag 'slab-for-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab: (34 commits)
  mm/slub: free KFENCE objects in slab_free_hook()
  mm/slub: handle bulk and single object freeing separately
  mm/slub: introduce __kmem_cache_free_bulk() without free hooks
  mm/slub: fix bulk alloc and free stats
  mm/slub: optimize free fast path code layout
  mm/slub: optimize alloc fastpath code layout
  mm/slub: remove slab_alloc() and __kmem_cache_alloc_lru() wrappers
  mm/slab: move kmalloc() functions from slab_common.c to slub.c
  mm/slab: move kmalloc_slab() to mm/slab.h
  mm/slab: move kfree() from slab_common.c to slub.c
  mm/slab: move struct kmem_cache_node from slab.h to slub.c
  mm/slab: move memcg related functions from slab.h to slub.c
  mm/slab: move pre/post-alloc hooks from slab.h to slub.c
  mm/slab: consolidate includes in the internal mm/slab.h
  mm/slab: move the rest of slub_def.h to mm/slab.h
  mm/slab: move struct kmem_cache_cpu declaration to slub.c
  mm/slab: remove mm/slab.c and slab_def.h
  mm/mempool/dmapool: remove CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB ifdefs
  mm/slab: remove CONFIG_SLAB code from slab common code
  cpu/hotplug: remove CPUHP_SLAB_PREPARE hooks
  ...

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index d9adc4e489a7..5f67fc1cd335 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -9,10 +9,6 @@
 			Linus
 ----------
 
-N: Matt Mackal
-E: mpm@selenic.com
-D: SLOB slab allocator
-
 N: Matti Aarnio
 E: mea@nic.funet.fi
 D: Alpha systems hacking, IPv6 and other network related stuff
@@ -1572,6 +1568,10 @@ S: Ampferstr. 50 / 4
 S: 6020 Innsbruck
 S: Austria
 
+N: Mark Hemment
+E: markhe@nextd.demon.co.uk
+D: SLAB allocator implementation
+
 N: Richard Henderson
 E: rth@twiddle.net
 E: rth@cygnus.com
@@ -2445,6 +2445,10 @@ D: work on suspend-to-ram/disk, killing duplicates from ioctl32,
 D: Altera SoCFPGA and Nokia N900 support.
 S: Czech Republic
 
+N: Olivia Mackall
+E: olivia@selenic.com
+D: SLOB slab allocator
+
 N: Paul Mackerras
 E: paulus@samba.org
 D: PPP driver