It has simply been an alias for the kernel_arena for many years now.
Enough time has passed to retire it.
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- rGcd836f600418: vm: Retire kmem_arena
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Out-of-tree code can make the same change, no need for a __FreeBSD_version bump I think. stable/11 is the last branch where kmem_arena is a distinct entity.
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I checked drm-515-kmod, drm-61-kmod, and virtualbox-ose-kmod. They don't appear to have any direct references to kmem_arena.