LKML News v5.10-rc2

[PATCH 0/9] More THP fixes (Matthew Wilcox)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201026183136.10404-1-willy@infradead.org

Several THP fixes.

[PATCH v5 0/9] KFENCE: A low-overhead sampling-based memory safety error detector (Marco Elver)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201027141606.426816-1-elver@google.com

The fifth version of the KFENCE.

[PATCH -V2 0/2] autonuma: Migrate on fault among multiple bound nodes (Huang Ying)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201028023411.15045-1-ying.huang@intel.com

This patch is for multiple NUMA nodes bounded application’s AutoNUMA balancing.

[PATCH v6 0/9] KFENCE: A low-overhead sampling-based memory safety error detector (Marco Elver)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201029131649.182037-1-elver@google.com

The sixth version of KFENCE patchset came out quite quickly than before. Jann says now there are only minor issues.

Linux 5.10-rc2 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wiGc62spBHh+i1yH9sVLpCqZBznUF8QdO7H5772qO1xqQ@mail.gmail.com

As usual, the rc2 released. It is a little big bigger than usual, and a lot of the diffstat is due to removal of MIC drivers for some hardware and ABI documents formatting for easy parsing. These made Torvalds feels a little bit odd about this release.

Below is the diffstat of the releases in the last two years.

Note that the y-axis is in logarithm. I draw it using https://github.com/sjp38/relstat and https://github.com/sjp38/lazybox using below command:

$ relstat.py --since 2018-11-02 | ~/lazybox/gnuplot/plot.py \
    --data_fmt table --type labeled-lines --xtics_rotate -90 \
    --font "Times New Roman, 5pt" --ylog --pointsize 0.3

And, below is the diffstat of the -rc2 releases in the last two years.