Struct slab comes to 5.17

The ongoing memory folio work has caused ripples through much of the kernel and inspired a few side projects, one of which was the removal of slab-specific fields from struct page. That work has been pulled into the mainline for the 5.17 kernel release; it is thus a good time to catch up with the status of struct slab and why this work is important.

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