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[GIT,PULL] Kbuild updates for v6.15-rc1

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Pull-request

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild.git tags/kbuild-v6.15

Message

Masahiro Yamada April 5, 2025, 10:04 p.m. UTC
Hello Linus,

Please pull Kbuild updates for v6.15-rc1.

You will get a merge conflict in rust/Makefile.
You can find the resolution in linux-next.

Thank you



The following changes since commit 80e54e84911a923c40d7bee33a34c1b4be148d7a:

  Linux 6.14-rc6 (2025-03-09 13:45:25 -1000)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild.git
tags/kbuild-v6.15

for you to fetch changes up to a7c699d090a1f3795c3271c2b399230e182db06e:

  kbuild: rpm-pkg: build a debuginfo RPM (2025-04-06 06:22:01 +0900)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Kbuild updates for v6.15

 - Improve performance in gendwarfksyms

 - Remove deprecated EXTRA_*FLAGS and KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS

 - Support CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL for ARCH=um

 - Use more relative paths to sources files for better reproducibility

 - Support the loong64 Debian architecture

 - Add Kbuild bash completion

 - Introduce intermediate vmlinux.unstripped for architectures that need
   static relocations to be stripped from the final vmlinux

 - Fix versioning in Debian packages for -rc releases

 - Treat missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() as an error

 - Convert Nios2 Makefiles to use the generic rule for built-in DTB

 - Add debuginfo support to the RPM package

----------------------------------------------------------------
Alexandru Gagniuc (1):
      kbuild: deb-pkg: don't set KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION unconditionally

Ard Biesheuvel (4):
      kbuild: link-vmlinux.sh: Make output file name configurable
      kbuild: Introduce Kconfig symbol for linking vmlinux with relocations
      kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with relocations preserved
      x86: Get rid of Makefile.postlink

Daniel Gomez (1):
      kconfig: merge_config: use an empty file as initfile

Jeff Johnson (1):
      modpost: require a MODULE_DESCRIPTION()

Kefan Liu (1):
      Documentation/kbuild: Fix indentation in modules.rst example

Kris Van Hees (1):
      kbuild: exclude .rodata.(cst|str)* when building ranges

Krzysztof Kozlowski (1):
      docs: kconfig: Mention IS_REACHABLE as way for optional dependency

Masahiro Yamada (17):
      kbuild: remove EXTRA_*FLAGS support
      gen_compile_commands.py: remove code for '\#' replacement
      genksyms: factor out APP for the ST_NORMAL state
      kconfig: do not clear SYMBOL_VALID when reading include/config/auto.conf
      kconfig: remove unnecessary cast in sym_get_string()
      modpost: introduce get_basename() helper
      modpost: use strstarts() to clean up parse_source_files()
      kbuild: move -fzero-init-padding-bits=all to the top-level Makefile
      kbuild: remove KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS support
      kbuild: add Kbuild bash completion
      Revert "kheaders: Ignore silly-rename files"
      kbuild: do not generate .tmp_vmlinux*.map when CONFIG_VMLINUX_MAP=y
      kbuild: deb-pkg: fix versioning for -rc releases
      kbuild: deb-pkg: remove "version" variable in mkdebian
      kbuild: deb-pkg: add comment about future removal of KDEB_COMPRESS
      kbuild: pacman-pkg: hardcode module installation path
      nios2: migrate to the generic rule for built-in DTB

Miguel Ojeda (2):
      kbuild: rust: add rustc-min-version support function
      rust: kbuild: skip `--remap-path-prefix` for `rustdoc`

Sami Tolvanen (1):
      gendwarfksyms: Add a separate pass to resolve FQNs

Seyediman Seyedarab (1):
      kbuild: fix argument parsing in scripts/config

Thomas Weißschuh (4):
      kbuild: implement CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL for Usermode Linux
      kbuild, rust: use -fremap-path-prefix to make paths relative
      x86: drop unnecessary prefix map configuration
      kbuild: make all file references relative to source root

Uday Shankar (2):
      scripts: make python shebangs specific about desired version
      kbuild: rpm-pkg: build a debuginfo RPM

WangYuli (1):
      kbuild: deb-pkg: add debarch for ARCH=loongarch64

Xi Ruoyao (1):
      kbuild: add dependency from vmlinux to sorttable

Xin Li (Intel) (1):
      kbuild: Add a help message for "headers"

 .gitignore                                   |   1 +
 Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst       |  18 --
 Documentation/kbuild/bash-completion.rst     |  65 ++++
 Documentation/kbuild/index.rst               |   2 +
 Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst    |  29 +-
 Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst           |  17 +-
 Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst             |   2 +-
 Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst |  17 --
 MAINTAINERS                                  |   1 +
 Makefile                                     |  23 +-
 arch/Kconfig                                 |   7 +
 arch/arm64/Makefile                          |   2 +-
 arch/mips/Kconfig                            |   1 +
 arch/mips/Makefile                           |   4 -
 arch/mips/Makefile.postlink                  |   2 +-
 arch/nios2/Kbuild                            |   2 +-
 arch/nios2/boot/dts/Makefile                 |   4 +-
 arch/nios2/kernel/prom.c                     |   2 +-
 arch/nios2/platform/Kconfig.platform         |  11 +-
 arch/riscv/Kconfig                           |   1 +
 arch/riscv/Makefile                          |   2 +-
 arch/riscv/Makefile.postlink                 |  11 +-
 arch/riscv/boot/Makefile                     |   5 +-
 arch/s390/Kconfig                            |   1 +
 arch/s390/Makefile                           |   2 +-
 arch/s390/Makefile.postlink                  |   4 +-
 arch/x86/Kconfig                             |   1 +
 arch/x86/Makefile                            |   6 -
 arch/x86/Makefile.postlink                   |  40 ---
 arch/x86/boot/Makefile                       |   1 -
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile            |  10 +-
 kernel/gen_kheaders.sh                       |   1 -
 lib/Kconfig.debug                            |   7 +-
 rust/Makefile                                |   8 +-
 scripts/Makefile.build                       |   4 -
 scripts/Makefile.compiler                    |   4 +
 scripts/Makefile.extrawarn                   |   3 -
 scripts/Makefile.lib                         |   8 -
 scripts/Makefile.vmlinux                     |  34 ++-
 scripts/bash-completion/make                 | 451 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 scripts/checkpatch.pl                        |  14 -
 scripts/clang-tools/gen_compile_commands.py  |   8 +-
 scripts/config                               |  26 +-
 scripts/gendwarfksyms/die.c                  |   2 +-
 scripts/gendwarfksyms/dwarf.c                | 154 +++++-----
 scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.h        |   2 +
 scripts/gendwarfksyms/types.c                |   2 +-
 scripts/generate_builtin_ranges.awk          |   5 +
 scripts/genksyms/lex.l                       |   6 +-
 scripts/kconfig/confdata.c                   |  19 +-
 scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh              |   4 +-
 scripts/kconfig/symbol.c                     |   2 +-
 scripts/link-vmlinux.sh                      |  24 +-
 scripts/mod/modpost.c                        |  45 ++-
 scripts/mod/modpost.h                        |   1 +
 scripts/mod/sumversion.c                     |  17 +-
 scripts/package/PKGBUILD                     |   6 +-
 scripts/package/debian/rules                 |  10 +-
 scripts/package/kernel.spec                  |  46 ++-
 scripts/package/mkdebian                     |  23 +-
 scripts/package/mkspec                       |  10 +
 scripts/show_delta                           |   2 +-
 scripts/tracing/draw_functrace.py            |   2 +-
 63 files changed, 892 insertions(+), 352 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/kbuild/bash-completion.rst
 delete mode 100644 arch/x86/Makefile.postlink
 create mode 100644 scripts/bash-completion/make

Comments

pr-tracker-bot@kernel.org April 5, 2025, 10:50 p.m. UTC | #1
The pull request you sent on Sun, 6 Apr 2025 07:04:27 +0900:

> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild.git tags/kbuild-v6.15

has been merged into torvalds/linux.git:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/f4d2ef48250ad057e4f00087967b5ff366da9f39

Thank you!
Damian Tometzki April 6, 2025, 5:43 a.m. UTC | #2
On Sun, 06. Apr 07:04, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hello Linus,
> 
> Please pull Kbuild updates for v6.15-rc1.
> 
> You will get a merge conflict in rust/Makefile.
> You can find the resolution in linux-next.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> 
> 
> The following changes since commit 80e54e84911a923c40d7bee33a34c1b4be148d7a:
> 
>   Linux 6.14-rc6 (2025-03-09 13:45:25 -1000)
> 
> are available in the Git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild.git
> tags/kbuild-v6.15
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to a7c699d090a1f3795c3271c2b399230e182db06e:
> 
>   kbuild: rpm-pkg: build a debuginfo RPM (2025-04-06 06:22:01 +0900)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Kbuild updates for v6.15
> 
>  - Improve performance in gendwarfksyms
> 
>  - Remove deprecated EXTRA_*FLAGS and KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS
> 
>  - Support CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL for ARCH=um
> 
>  - Use more relative paths to sources files for better reproducibility
> 
>  - Support the loong64 Debian architecture
> 
>  - Add Kbuild bash completion
> 
>  - Introduce intermediate vmlinux.unstripped for architectures that need
>    static relocations to be stripped from the final vmlinux
> 
>  - Fix versioning in Debian packages for -rc releases
> 
>  - Treat missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() as an error
> 
>  - Convert Nios2 Makefiles to use the generic rule for built-in DTB
> 
>  - Add debuginfo support to the RPM package
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Alexandru Gagniuc (1):
>       kbuild: deb-pkg: don't set KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION unconditionally
> 
> Ard Biesheuvel (4):
>       kbuild: link-vmlinux.sh: Make output file name configurable
>       kbuild: Introduce Kconfig symbol for linking vmlinux with relocations
>       kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with relocations preserved
>       x86: Get rid of Makefile.postlink
> 
> Daniel Gomez (1):
>       kconfig: merge_config: use an empty file as initfile
> 
> Jeff Johnson (1):
>       modpost: require a MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
> 
> Kefan Liu (1):
>       Documentation/kbuild: Fix indentation in modules.rst example
> 
> Kris Van Hees (1):
>       kbuild: exclude .rodata.(cst|str)* when building ranges
> 
> Krzysztof Kozlowski (1):
>       docs: kconfig: Mention IS_REACHABLE as way for optional dependency
> 
> Masahiro Yamada (17):
>       kbuild: remove EXTRA_*FLAGS support
>       gen_compile_commands.py: remove code for '\#' replacement
>       genksyms: factor out APP for the ST_NORMAL state
>       kconfig: do not clear SYMBOL_VALID when reading include/config/auto.conf
>       kconfig: remove unnecessary cast in sym_get_string()
>       modpost: introduce get_basename() helper
>       modpost: use strstarts() to clean up parse_source_files()
>       kbuild: move -fzero-init-padding-bits=all to the top-level Makefile
>       kbuild: remove KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS support
>       kbuild: add Kbuild bash completion
>       Revert "kheaders: Ignore silly-rename files"
>       kbuild: do not generate .tmp_vmlinux*.map when CONFIG_VMLINUX_MAP=y
>       kbuild: deb-pkg: fix versioning for -rc releases
>       kbuild: deb-pkg: remove "version" variable in mkdebian
>       kbuild: deb-pkg: add comment about future removal of KDEB_COMPRESS
>       kbuild: pacman-pkg: hardcode module installation path
>       nios2: migrate to the generic rule for built-in DTB
> 
> Miguel Ojeda (2):
>       kbuild: rust: add rustc-min-version support function
>       rust: kbuild: skip `--remap-path-prefix` for `rustdoc`
> 
> Sami Tolvanen (1):
>       gendwarfksyms: Add a separate pass to resolve FQNs
> 
> Seyediman Seyedarab (1):
>       kbuild: fix argument parsing in scripts/config
> 
> Thomas Wei�schuh (4):
>       kbuild: implement CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL for Usermode Linux
>       kbuild, rust: use -fremap-path-prefix to make paths relative
>       x86: drop unnecessary prefix map configuration
>       kbuild: make all file references relative to source root
> 
> Uday Shankar (2):
>       scripts: make python shebangs specific about desired version
>       kbuild: rpm-pkg: build a debuginfo RPM
> 
> WangYuli (1):
>       kbuild: deb-pkg: add debarch for ARCH=loongarch64
> 
> Xi Ruoyao (1):
>       kbuild: add dependency from vmlinux to sorttable
> 
> Xin Li (Intel) (1):
>       kbuild: Add a help message for "headers"
> 
>  .gitignore                                   |   1 +
>  Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst       |  18 --
>  Documentation/kbuild/bash-completion.rst     |  65 ++++
>  Documentation/kbuild/index.rst               |   2 +
>  Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst    |  29 +-
>  Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst           |  17 +-
>  Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst             |   2 +-
>  Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst |  17 --
>  MAINTAINERS                                  |   1 +
>  Makefile                                     |  23 +-
>  arch/Kconfig                                 |   7 +
>  arch/arm64/Makefile                          |   2 +-
>  arch/mips/Kconfig                            |   1 +
>  arch/mips/Makefile                           |   4 -
>  arch/mips/Makefile.postlink                  |   2 +-
>  arch/nios2/Kbuild                            |   2 +-
>  arch/nios2/boot/dts/Makefile                 |   4 +-
>  arch/nios2/kernel/prom.c                     |   2 +-
>  arch/nios2/platform/Kconfig.platform         |  11 +-
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig                           |   1 +
>  arch/riscv/Makefile                          |   2 +-
>  arch/riscv/Makefile.postlink                 |  11 +-
>  arch/riscv/boot/Makefile                     |   5 +-
>  arch/s390/Kconfig                            |   1 +
>  arch/s390/Makefile                           |   2 +-
>  arch/s390/Makefile.postlink                  |   4 +-
>  arch/x86/Kconfig                             |   1 +
>  arch/x86/Makefile                            |   6 -
>  arch/x86/Makefile.postlink                   |  40 ---
>  arch/x86/boot/Makefile                       |   1 -
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile            |  10 +-
>  kernel/gen_kheaders.sh                       |   1 -
>  lib/Kconfig.debug                            |   7 +-
>  rust/Makefile                                |   8 +-
>  scripts/Makefile.build                       |   4 -
>  scripts/Makefile.compiler                    |   4 +
>  scripts/Makefile.extrawarn                   |   3 -
>  scripts/Makefile.lib                         |   8 -
>  scripts/Makefile.vmlinux                     |  34 ++-
>  scripts/bash-completion/make                 | 451 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl                        |  14 -
>  scripts/clang-tools/gen_compile_commands.py  |   8 +-
>  scripts/config                               |  26 +-
>  scripts/gendwarfksyms/die.c                  |   2 +-
>  scripts/gendwarfksyms/dwarf.c                | 154 +++++-----
>  scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.h        |   2 +
>  scripts/gendwarfksyms/types.c                |   2 +-
>  scripts/generate_builtin_ranges.awk          |   5 +
>  scripts/genksyms/lex.l                       |   6 +-
>  scripts/kconfig/confdata.c                   |  19 +-
>  scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh              |   4 +-
>  scripts/kconfig/symbol.c                     |   2 +-
>  scripts/link-vmlinux.sh                      |  24 +-
>  scripts/mod/modpost.c                        |  45 ++-
>  scripts/mod/modpost.h                        |   1 +
>  scripts/mod/sumversion.c                     |  17 +-
>  scripts/package/PKGBUILD                     |   6 +-
>  scripts/package/debian/rules                 |  10 +-
>  scripts/package/kernel.spec                  |  46 ++-
>  scripts/package/mkdebian                     |  23 +-
>  scripts/package/mkspec                       |  10 +
>  scripts/show_delta                           |   2 +-
>  scripts/tracing/draw_functrace.py            |   2 +-
>  63 files changed, 892 insertions(+), 352 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/kbuild/bash-completion.rst
>  delete mode 100644 arch/x86/Makefile.postlink
>  create mode 100644 scripts/bash-completion/make
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best Regards
> Masahiro Yamada
Hi together, 

i got the following error after this pull request.

 MODPOST Module.symvers
ERROR: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/tests/slub_kunit.o
make[3]: *** [/home/damian/kernel/linux/scripts/Makefile.modpost:147: Module.symvers] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/home/damian/kernel/linux/Makefile:1956: modpost] Error 2
make[1]: *** [/home/damian/kernel/linux/Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/damian/kernel/build'
make: *** [Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2
Linus Torvalds April 6, 2025, 4:50 p.m. UTC | #3
On Sat, 5 Apr 2025 at 22:43, Damian Tometzki <damian@riscv-rocks.de> wrote:
>
> i got the following error after this pull request.
>
>  MODPOST Module.symvers
> ERROR: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/tests/slub_kunit.o
> make[3]: *** [/home/damian/kernel/linux/scripts/Makefile.modpost:147: Module.symvers] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [/home/damian/kernel/linux/Makefile:1956: modpost] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [/home/damian/kernel/linux/Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/damian/kernel/build'
> make: *** [Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2

Bah. And the reason it doesn't show up in my normal build tests is
that my 'allmodconfig' tests end up picking up SLUB_TINY - which
disables a lot of slub cases, including this test.

And my normal non-allmodconfig tests don't enable SLUB_KUNIT_TEST.

That said, I'm not sure if making it a hard error was a good idea in
the first place. It *used* to be just a warning, and it used to be
enabled only with 'extra_warn'.

So switching it on to always warn was probably a good idea, but then
also making it a hard error may have been a bit excessive.

In related news - I also wonder whether SLUB_TINY should just be
turned off for COMPILE_TEST. It's not a very interesting config option
to test for, and it disables much more code than it enables [*].

Testing this without SLUB_TINY, I see that it *also* triggers this one:

    ERROR: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in mm/kasan/kasan_test.o

so the claim in commit 6c6c1fc09de3 ("modpost: require a
MODULE_DESCRIPTION()") that "all known instances of this issue have
been fixed" is clearly wrong.

For all we know, there are lots of other cases like this that just
never got tested with W=1 at all.

I think I'll downgrade the error() to a warn() again, and make
SLUB_TINY depend on !COMPILE_TEST.

And I'm not even convinced we should require module descriptions for
silly test modules, but whatever.

We'll see if something else pops up, but making the lack of a module
description a fatal error was clearly not right as-is.

              Linus

[*] In fact, I'm not convinced SLUB_TINYT ever makes sense at all, but
that may be too unrelated to this to worry about.
Stephen Rothwell April 6, 2025, 8:41 p.m. UTC | #4
Hi Linus,

On Sun, 6 Apr 2025 09:50:05 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2025 at 22:43, Damian Tometzki <damian@riscv-rocks.de> wrote:
> >
> > i got the following error after this pull request.
> >
> >  MODPOST Module.symvers
> > ERROR: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/tests/slub_kunit.o
> > make[3]: *** [/home/damian/kernel/linux/scripts/Makefile.modpost:147: Module.symvers] Error 1
> > make[2]: *** [/home/damian/kernel/linux/Makefile:1956: modpost] Error 2
> > make[1]: *** [/home/damian/kernel/linux/Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/damian/kernel/build'
> > make: *** [Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2  
> 
> Bah. And the reason it doesn't show up in my normal build tests is
> that my 'allmodconfig' tests end up picking up SLUB_TINY - which
> disables a lot of slub cases, including this test.
> 
> And my normal non-allmodconfig tests don't enable SLUB_KUNIT_TEST.
> 
> That said, I'm not sure if making it a hard error was a good idea in
> the first place. It *used* to be just a warning, and it used to be
> enabled only with 'extra_warn'.
> 
> So switching it on to always warn was probably a good idea, but then
> also making it a hard error may have been a bit excessive.
> 
> In related news - I also wonder whether SLUB_TINY should just be
> turned off for COMPILE_TEST. It's not a very interesting config option
> to test for, and it disables much more code than it enables [*].
> 
> Testing this without SLUB_TINY, I see that it *also* triggers this one:
> 
>     ERROR: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in mm/kasan/kasan_test.o
> 
> so the claim in commit 6c6c1fc09de3 ("modpost: require a
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION()") that "all known instances of this issue have
> been fixed" is clearly wrong.
> 
> For all we know, there are lots of other cases like this that just
> never got tested with W=1 at all.
> 
> I think I'll downgrade the error() to a warn() again, and make
> SLUB_TINY depend on !COMPILE_TEST.
> 
> And I'm not even convinced we should require module descriptions for
> silly test modules, but whatever.
> 
> We'll see if something else pops up, but making the lack of a module
> description a fatal error was clearly not right as-is.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250324103048.3d8230f9@canb.auug.org.au/
Vlastimil Babka April 7, 2025, 8:34 a.m. UTC | #5
On 4/6/25 18:50, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2025 at 22:43, Damian Tometzki <damian@riscv-rocks.de> wrote:
>>
>> i got the following error after this pull request.
>>
>>  MODPOST Module.symvers
>> ERROR: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/tests/slub_kunit.o
>> make[3]: *** [/home/damian/kernel/linux/scripts/Makefile.modpost:147: Module.symvers] Error 1
>> make[2]: *** [/home/damian/kernel/linux/Makefile:1956: modpost] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [/home/damian/kernel/linux/Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/damian/kernel/build'
>> make: *** [Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2
> 
> I think I'll downgrade the error() to a warn() again, and make
> SLUB_TINY depend on !COMPILE_TEST.

Ack, thanks.

> And I'm not even convinced we should require module descriptions for
> silly test modules, but whatever.
> 
> We'll see if something else pops up, but making the lack of a module
> description a fatal error was clearly not right as-is.
> 
>               Linus
> 
> [*] In fact, I'm not convinced SLUB_TINYT ever makes sense at all, but
> that may be too unrelated to this to worry about.

Back when it was introduced, it allowed removing SLAB without breaking some
particular small systems, so I'd say it was worth it :) But since the
savings are mostly coming from not allocating for performance rather than
the disabled code size, we could probably easily turn it to a non-intrusive
boot option and not regress anyone.