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Commit eb07c4f3 authored by Vlastimil Babka's avatar Vlastimil Babka
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mm/slab: rename CONFIG_SLAB to CONFIG_SLAB_DEPRECATED

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: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarHyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc
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