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LKML News v6.16-rc1

[PATCH RFC] mm: use per_vma lock for MADV_DONTNEED (Barry Song) https://lore.kernel.org/20250527044145.13153-1-21cnbao@gmail.com Barry posted an RFC to make MADV_DONTNEED madvise() calls to use per-vma lock when the region is in a signle vma. [PATCH v4] tools/mm: Add script to display page state for a given PID and VADDR (Ye Liu) https://lore.kernel.org/20250528091543.355386-1-ye.liu@linux.dev Ye posted fourth version of a patch for drgn script that shows detailed information of page for a given virtual address.

LKML News v6.15

[RFC PATCH v2 0/5] mm, bpf: BPF based THP adjustment (Yafang Shao) https://lore.kernel.org/20250520060504.20251-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com Yafang posted the second version of BPF-based THP policy adjustment patch series. [RFC PATCH 0/5] add process_madvise() flags to modify behaviour (Lorenzo Stoakes) https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1747686021.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Lorenzo posted an RFC series for extending process_madvise() behavior using its flags option. [RFC v2 PATCH 0/9] Intel RAR TLB invalidation (Rik van Riel) https://lore.kernel.org/20250520010350.1740223-1-riel@surriel.com Rik posted the second version of his RFC patch series for Intel’s h/w-based tlb invalidation optimization.

LKML News v6.15-rc7

Linux 6.15-rc7 (Linus Torvalds) https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=whtwpdL9e_5j1oq8C=1EZud_cXerZeHqe5L8y7wG+34EA@mail.gmail.com Linus Torvalds released the seventh candidate version for Linux 6.15. Linus mentions last week was having some exciting events including CPU bug mitigations, Xe fixes and sched_ext fixes. Which is not what Linus wanted. But still he beleives those were reasonable and solid in whole. Still he aims to release 6.15 next week, unless something strange happens.

LKML News v6.15-rc6

[PATCH v3] mm: Add CONFIG_PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER to select page block order (Juan Yescas) https://lore.kernel.org/20250506002319.513795-1-jyescas@google.com As a followup of the LSFMMBPF discussion, Juan posted a patch for the CMA alignment requirements issue on large page size configuration. [RFC PATCH 0/9] Intel RAR TLB invalidation (Rik van Riel) https://lore.kernel.org/20250506003811.92405-1-riel@surriel.com Rick posted an RFC patch series for reducing IPI for TLB invaludations on Intel machines using its RAR feature. [PATCH 0/1] prctl: allow overriding system THP policy to always (Usama Arif) https://lore.

LKML News v6.15-rc5

Linux 6.15-rc5 (Linus Torvalds) https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wgjwfsyPf3SfjrPhAMJqN6brBpajQ3F9qp_TatwOs56YQ@mail.gmail.com Linus released the fifth candidate for Linux 6.15. It is larger than the usual, but still in normal range. The big size was mainly due to selftest changes.

LKML News v6.15-rc4

[PATCH V4 0/4] add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen (Zhongkun He) https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1745225696.git.hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com Zhongkun posted a patch series for fine tuning memory.reclaim and lru_gen for reclaiminig only anonymous pages. [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add core mm section (Lorenzo Stoakes) https://lore.kernel.org/20250423123042.59082-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Lorenzo posted a patch for splitting MM section on MAINTAINER further, for the core part. [PATCH v3] tools/mm: Add script to display page state for a given PID and VADDR (Ye Liu) https://lore.

LKML News v6.15-rc3

[PATCH] tools/drgn: Add script to display page state for a given PID and VADDR (Ye Liu) https://lore.kernel.org/20250415075024.248232-1-ye.liu@linux.dev Ye Liu introduces a drgn script for showing page information for specific virtual address range. [RFC PATCH v4 0/6] Promotion of Unmapped Page Cache Folios. (Gregory Price) https://lore.kernel.org/20250411221111.493193-1-gourry@gourry.net Gregory continues his unmapped page cache folios promotion work and sent the fourth version. [PATCH v2 0/2] separate out mmap_lock/VMA locking and update MAINTAINERS (Lorenzo Stoakes) https://lore.

LKML News v6.15-rc2

[PATCH v2 0/3] Implement numa node notifier (Oscar Salvador) https://lore.kernel.org/20250408084153.255762-1-osalvador@suse.de Oscar found 5/10 memory notifier users are actually interested in only NUMA level change, and proposes numa node notifier. [RFC PATCH v2] Introduce Hierarchical Per-CPU Counters (Mathiew Desnoyers) https://lore.kernel.org/20250408160508.991738-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Mathiew proposes a hierarchical per-cpu counter that can provide better scalability on multi CPU machines. [RFC PATCH 00/14] Virtual Swap Space (Nhat Pham) https://lore.kernel.org/20250407234223.1059191-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Nhat proposes virtual swap space, which was also presented at LSFMMBPF a few weeks ago.

LKML News v6.15-rc1

[GIT PULL] MM updates for 6.15-rc1 (Andrew Morton) https://lore.kernel.org/20250330165732.f4c1493615375623f67e38eb@linux-foundation.org Andrew Morton sent MM pull requests for 6.15-rc1 to Linus Torvalds. mm.git grew a branch (Andrew Morton) https://lore.kernel.org/20250401030418.6b9e3b048eacc05d1cdeeffd@linux-foundation.org Andrew announces a new branch on mm.git, called mm-new. He explains what it will be, and asks Stephen to continue adding mm-unstable to next while not adding mm-new. [PATCH 0/2] Implement numa node notifier (Oscar Salvador) https://lore.kernel.org/20250401092716.537512-1-osalvador@suse.de Oscar posted a patchset for extending memory notifier for only NUMA state changes.

LKML News v6.14

[RFC v1 0/3] Live Update Orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin) https://lore.kernel.org/20250320024011.2995837-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Pasha posted an RFC patch series for Linux kernel live update that uses kexec hand over as a way to preserve memory state from old kernel. [GIT PULL] slab updates for 6.15 (Vlastimil Babka) https://lore.kernel.org/2f7985a8-0460-42de-9af0-4f966b937695@suse.cz Vlastimil posted Slab pull request for Linux v6.15 to Linus. [PATCH v5 00/16] kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO) (Changyuan Lyu) https://lore.kernel.org/20250320015551.2157511-1-changyuanl@google.com Changyuan posted the fifth version of kexec handover patch series.