Re: Deprecating and removing SLOB

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 12:56 PM Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It worked fine on some boards, but on others it had about a 25% chance
> of booting, and 75% chance of hanging at boot. I tried printk-debugging
> it, and was coming to the conclusion that it's memory corruption of
> some sort.
>
> Then I switched to SLUB and all the problems are gone. Same with SLAB.
>
> So while I can't say for sure that SLOB is broken (it might be
> triggering a bug somewhere else), I am highly suspicious that it is.

I have this distinct memory of having seen other reports like this,
but my google-fu is not strong enough to back that up.

There definitely has been recurring noise about SLOB issues. There's a
reason people have wanted to remove it for years and years.

             Linus