[Hypervisor Live Update] Notes from February 10, 2025 (David Rientjes) https://lore.kernel.org/dc1ee0c3-d3e7-4284-6329-346b8cea68b5@google.com
David shares hypervisor live update meeting summary.
[GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.14-rc4 (Andrew Morton) https://lore.kernel.org/20250219175311.7a5b47084de5ad0258526be2@linux-foundation.org
Andrew posted mm hotfixes for 6.14-rc4 to Linus Torvalds.
Rust kernel policy (Miguel Ojeda) https://lore.kernel.org/CANiq72m-R0tOakf=j7BZ78jDHdy=9-fvZbAT8j91Je2Bxy0sFg@mail.gmail.com
Miguel posted a mail about his blog post for the policy around Rust for Linux kernel. Long discussion is following.
[PATCH v10 00/12] AMD broadcast TLB invalidation (Rik van Riel) https://lore.kernel.org/20250211210823.242681-1-riel@surriel.com
Rik posted the tenth versin of the TLB invalication broadcasting patch series for AMD.
[PATCH v14 0/8] Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap (Alice Ryhl) https://lore.kernel.org/20250213-vma-v14-0-b29c47ab21f5@google.com
Alice posted 14th version of the patch series for adding Rust support to mm_struct, vm_rea_struct and mmap.
[LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Rust in FS, Storage, MM (Andreas Mindborg) https://lore.kernel.org/87ldu9uiyo.fsf@kernel.org
Andreas proposes an LSFMMBPF topic for discussing status and experience of Rust adoption for the subsystems.
[LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Integrate Swap Cache, Swap Maps with Swap Allocator (Kairui Song) https://lore.kernel.org/CAMgjq7BvQ0ZXvyLGp2YP96+i+6COCBBJCYmjXHGBnfisCAb8VA@mail.gmail.com
Kairui proposes yet another LSFMMBPF topic for redesigning and integrating multiple swap data into the swap allocator.
[PATCH v4 00/14] kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO) (Mike Rapoport) https://lore.kernel.org/20250206132754.2596694-1-rppt@kernel.org
Mike posted the fourth version of the kexec handover patch series.
Linux 6.14-rc2 (Linus Torvalds) https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wiGR6aB2oE7VsDkpnSbHaUnxVqtMvcEB0JzdvS-YmT_Lg@mail.gmail.com
Linus Torvalds released the second candidate of Linux 6.14. It is a small rc2 following the small rc1 pattern.
[PATCH] mm: Optimize TLB flushes during page reclaim (Vinay Banakar) https://lore.kernel.org/CALf+9Yc3WjbG89uRWiDC_qYshJ5z_9WCrbEJe42Vbv+gJjs26g@mail.gmail.com
Vinay optimizes shrink_folio_list() to do TLB flush in batch instead of per page being reclaimed.
[LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Overhauling hot page detection and promotion based on PTE A bit scanning (Raghavendra K T) https://lore.kernel.org/20250123105721.424117-1-raghavendra.kt@amd.com
Raghavendra proposes an LSFMMBPF topic for discussions around multiple ways to find hot pages, and possible future composition of those.
[LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Enhancements to Page Migration with Multi-threading and Batch Offloading to DMA (Shivank Garg) https://lore.
[LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Predictive readahead of dentries (Shyam Prasad N) https://lore.kernel.org/CANT5p=rxLH-D9qSoOWgjYeD87uahmZJMwXp8uNKW66mbv8hmDg@mail.gmail.com
Shyam proposes an LSFMM topic for dentries readahead, like that of filesystems.
[PATCH v9 00/17] reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount (Suren Baghdasaryan) https://lore.kernel.org/20250111042604.3230628-1-surenb@google.com
Suren continues revisioning of his per-vma lock optimization, and posted the ninth version of it, with changed title.
[Feedback Needed] Hypervisor live update biweekly meeting time (David Rientjes) https://lore.kernel.org/2908e4ab-abc4-ddd0-b191-fe820856cfb4@google.com
David announces start of a bi-weekly syncup for hypervisor live update, which was a topic of last year’s MM alignment session, and asking feedback about the time proposal.
[PATCH] tools/mm: Introduce a tool to handle entries in allocinfo (Hao Ge) https://lore.kernel.org/20250106112103.25401-1-hao.ge@linux.dev
Hao posted a patch adding a tool for handling of the kernel’s memory allocation profilier output.
[Invitation] Linux MM Alignment Session on Cgroup-based THP Control on Wednesday (David Rientjes) https://lore.kernel.org/5535fc79-c566-93a0-6134-bfdf1cf5171a@google.com
David invites people for next Linux MM Alignment session. The topic will be cgroup-based THP control, led by Gutierez Asier, who proposed the idea.
Swap Min Odrer (Daniel Gomez) https://lore.
[PATCH v3 00/12] AMD broadcast TLB invalidation (Rik van Riel) https://lore.kernel.org/20241230175550.4046587-1-riel@surriel.com
Rik posted the third version of the patch series for AMD TLB invalidastion broadcasting support.
[PATCH mm-unstable v4 0/7] mm/mglru: performance optimizations (Yu Zhao) https://lore.kernel.org/20241231043538.4075764-1-yuzhao@google.com
Yu posted the fourth version of MGLRU performance optimization, which fixes two more regressions.
[RFC PATCH 0/9 v2] cgroup: separate per-subsystem rstat trees (JP Kobryn) https://lore.kernel.org/20250103015020.78547-1-inwardvessel@gmail.com
JP posted second version of the RFC patch sereis that reduce per-subsystem stat reading overhead by separating the data structure per subsystem.
Linus 6.13-rc5 (Linus Torvalds) https://lore.kernel.org/<CAHk-=wh=sk+uzFj5edCwdSmUuhfe40mH+G04XQXZtzbx_XBnvQ@mail.gmail.com
After yet another calm week of holidays, Linus released the fifth candidate for Linux 6.13. It it again a tiny one, having less than a hundred non-merge commits.
[RFC PATCH 00/12] khugepaged: Asynchronous mTHP collapse (Dev Jain) https://lore.kernel.org/20241216165105.56185-1-dev.jain@arm.com
Dev Jain posted an RFC patch series that makes khugepaged collapses multi-sized THP.
[PATCH] mm/page_idle: Constify ‘struct bin_attribute’ (Thomas Weißschuh) https://lore.kernel.org/20241216-sysfs-const-bin_attr-page_idle-v1-1-cc01ecc55196@weissschuh.net
Thomas marks struct bin_attribute objects that used in page_idle to be marked as const, since it is now supported.
Slow-tier Page Promotion discussion recap and open questions (David Rientjes) https://lore.kernel.org/6d582bb6-3ba5-1768-92f2-6025340a3cd4@google.com
David shares his summary of the discussions around asynchronous page promotion approach from AMD that was held on last MM alignment session.
[Invitation] Linux MM Alignment Session on Slow-tier Page Promotion on Wednesday (David Rientjes) https://lore.kernel.org/52a4867a-f330-4d3f-2da8-0919bc49c6ea@google.com
David Rientjes invites MM people to the next alignment session. The topic is slow-tier page promotion, led by RaghavendraKT from AMD. They have RFC, too: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20241201153818.2633616-1-raghavendra.kt@amd.com/T/#t
[PATCH mm-unstable 00/17] mm: Introduce arch_mmap_hint() (Kalesh Singh) https://lore.kernel.org/20241210024119.2488608-1-kaleshsingh@google.com
Kalesh posted a patch that introducing per-architecture mmap_hint() implementation and fixing the mmap hint being ignored due to THP in some cases.