LKML News v5.15-rc7

incoming (Andrew Morton)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211018151438.f2246e2656c041b6753a8bdd@linux-foundation.org

19 mm subsystem fix patches have sent to Linus Torvalds.

[PATCH v11 1/3] mm: rearrange madvise code to allow for reuse (Suren Baghdasaryan)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211019215511.3771969-1-surenb@google.com

This commit refactor some madvise code for vma updates so that those can be reused by prctl.

mmotm 2021-10-20-20-40 uploaded (Andrew Morton)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211021034104.F6VxKBQcG%akpm@linux-foundation.org

Andrew updated mmotm. It’s based on 5.15-rc6, adds 74 new patches modifies 29 existing patches, and drops 22 patches. In total, 366 patches in the queue.

Linux 5.15-rc7 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wi1+boAQyckdiYXuBkybN4H_7OT569MwgyetWAfTExeEA@mail.gmail.com

This time, the release has been delayed about one day, not because of any kernel trouble, but Linus’ travel. Rather than that, the rc7 is quite normal, and it turned out that the big rc6 was just due to a timing issue.

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 2019-10-26 | ~/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 -rc6 releases in the last two years.