As discussed at LSF/MM [1] [2] and with no objections raised there,
deprecate the SLAB allocator. Rename the user-visible option so that
users with CONFIG_SLAB=y get a new prompt with explanation during make
oldconfig, while make olddefconfig will just switch to SLUB.
In all defconfigs with CONFIG_SLAB=y remove the line so those also
switch to SLUB. Regressions due to the switch should be reported to
linux-mm and slab maintainers.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/4b9fc9c6-b48c-198f-5f80-811a44737e5f@suse.cz/
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/932201/
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- hfs and hfsplus kmap API modernization (Fabio Francesco)
- make crash-kexec work properly when invoked from an NMI-time panic
(Valentin Schneider)
- ntfs bugfixes (Hawkins Jiawei)
- improve IPC msg scalability by replacing atomic_t's with percpu
counters (Jiebin Sun)
- nilfs2 cleanups (Minghao Chi)
- lots of other single patches all over the tree!
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (71 commits)
include/linux/entry-common.h: remove has_signal comment of arch_do_signal_or_restart() prototype
proc: test how it holds up with mapping'less process
mailmap: update Frank Rowand email address
ia64: mca: use strscpy() is more robust and safer
init/Kconfig: fix unmet direct dependencies
ia64: update config files
nilfs2: replace WARN_ONs by nilfs_error for checkpoint acquisition failure
fork: remove duplicate included header files
init/main.c: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions
proc: mark more files as permanent
nilfs2: remove the unneeded result variable
nilfs2: delete unnecessary checks before brelse()
checkpatch: warn for non-standard fixes tag style
usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file
ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter
percpu: add percpu_counter_add_local and percpu_counter_sub_local
fs/ocfs2: fix repeated words in comments
relay: use kvcalloc to alloc page array in relay_alloc_page_array
proc: make config PROC_CHILDREN depend on PROC_FS
fs: uninline inode_maybe_inc_iversion()
...
The Octeon usb driver has been in staging for a long time and used in
Ubiquiti routers for a while now.
It's been built and then tested on real hardware with several usb devices
and it is proven to be stable and ready to be moved to its proper place
in the kernel tree.
Move it to drivers/usb/host and adjust its Makefile, Kconfig and defconfig
dependencies.
Many thanks to the developers who made it happen.
Signed-off-by: Artur Bujdoso <artur.bujdoso@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Yo0HBIlSXOBM+//9@crux
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull MIPS updates from Paul Burton:
"Here's the main MIPS pull for Linux 4.21. Core architecture changes
include:
- Syscall tables & definitions for unistd.h are now generated by
scripts, providing greater consistency with other architectures &
making it easier to add new syscalls.
- Support for building kernels with no floating point support, upon
which any userland attempting to use floating point instructions
will receive a SIGILL. Mostly useful to shrink the kernel & as
preparation for nanoMIPS support which does not yet include FP.
- MIPS SIMD Architecture (MSA) vector register context is now exposed
by ptrace via a new NT_MIPS_MSA regset.
- ASIDs are now stored as 64b values even for MIPS32 kernels,
expanding the ASID version field sufficiently that we don't need to
worry about overflow & avoiding rare issues with reused ASIDs that
have been observed in the wild.
- The branch delay slot "emulation" page is now mapped without write
permission for the user, preventing its use as a nice location for
attacks to execute malicious code from.
- Support for ioremap_prot(), primarily to allow gdb or other ptrace
users the ability to view their tracee's memory using the same
cache coherency attribute.
- Optimizations to more cpu_has_* macros, allowing more to be
compile-time constant where possible.
- Enable building the whole kernel with UBSAN instrumentation.
- Enable building the kernel with link-time dead code & data
elimination.
Platform specific changes include:
- The Boston board gains a workaround for DMA prefetching issues with
the EG20T Platform Controller Hub that it uses.
- Cleanups to Cavium Octeon code removing about 20k lines of
redundant code, mostly unused or duplicate register definitions in
headers.
- defconfig updates for the DECstation machines, including new
defconfigs for r4k & 64b machines.
- Further work on Loongson 3 support.
- DMA fixes for SiByte machines"
* tag 'mips_4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux: (95 commits)
MIPS: math-emu: Write-protect delay slot emulation pages
MIPS: Remove struct mm_context_t fp_mode_switching field
mips: generate uapi header and system call table files
mips: add system call table generation support
mips: remove syscall table entries
mips: add +1 to __NR_syscalls in uapi header
mips: rename scall64-64.S to scall64-n64.S
mips: remove unused macros
mips: add __NR_syscalls along with __NR_Linux_syscalls
MIPS: Expand MIPS32 ASIDs to 64 bits
MIPS: OCTEON: delete redundant register definitions
MIPS: OCTEON: cvmx_gmxx_inf_mode: use oldest forward compatible definition
MIPS: OCTEON: cvmx_mio_fus_dat3: use oldest forward compatible definition
MIPS: OCTEON: cvmx_pko_mem_debug8: use oldest forward compatible definition
MIPS: OCTEON: octeon-usb: use common gpio_bit definition
MIPS: OCTEON: enable all OCTEON drivers in defconfig
mips: annotate implicit fall throughs
MIPS: Hardcode cpu_has_mips* where target ISA allows
MIPS: MT: Remove norps command line parameter
MIPS: Only include mmzone.h when CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES=y
...
The driver hasn't been cleaned up and it doesn't look like anyone is
working on it anymore (including the original author). So remove it.
If someone wants to work on cleaning the driver up and moving it out of
staging, this commit can be reverted.
In addition, since this removes the CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SILICOM config
symbol, remove the symbol from all defconfig files that reference it.
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martšenko <kristina.martsenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Cotey <puff65537@bansheeslibrary.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
