LKML News v5.19-rc6

[PATCH v9 0/9] x86: Show in sysfs if a memory node is able to do encryption (Martin Fernandez)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220704135833.1496303-1-martin.fernandez@eclypsium.com

This patchset makes each memory descriptor node to show if it has the EFI_MEMORY_CPU_CRYPRO attribute.

[PATCH v3] arm64: enable THP_SWAP for arm64 (Barry Song)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220706072707.114376-1-21cnbao@gmail.com

THP_SWAP, which dealys the split of THP for swap, includes swap throughput and architecture independent, but enabled on x86_64 only. This patch enables it on arm64.

[PATCH v13 00/14] Multi-Gen LRU Framework (Yu Zhao)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220706220022.968789-1-yuzhao@google.com

Thirteenth version of Multi-gen LRU has posted. This version fixes an issue in v12 that reported by Qi Zheng.

[PATCH v8 00/15] Add MEMORY_DEVICE_COHERENT for coherent device memory mapping (Alex Sierra)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220707190349.9778-1-alex.sierra@amd.com

This patchset introduces a type of memory owned by a device that can be mapped into CPU page tables like MEMORY_DEVICE_GENERIC, called MEMORY_DEVICE_COHERENT.

[PATCH v3 00/21] Update Documentation/ cross references and fix issues (Mauro Carvalho Chehab)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1657360984.git.mchehab@kernel.org

This patchset fixes html docs build issues.

Linux 5.19-rc6 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgTmGaToVFdSdoFqT2sNkk7jg2rSWasUYv-tASUZ2j_0Q@mail.gmail.com

The sixth release candidate for Linux 5.19 has released. This release is just fairly normal and has nothing really stands out.

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 2020-07-11 | ~/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.