LKML News v5.7-rc4

[PATCH 0/7] Record the mm_struct in the page table pages (Matthew Wilcox)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200428194449.22615-1-willy@infradead.org

Literally, this patchset adds the mm_struct pointer to struct page if it is used for page tables. This will be useful for several cases usch as uncorrectable errors handling and task-page table relation checking, etc.

[PATCH v4] mm: Proactive compaction (Nitin Gupta)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200428221055.598-1-nigupta@nvidia.com

This patchset makes the compaction to be more proactively done for better THP allocation success and makes user to be able to control the proactiveness using a sysfs file, /sys/kernel/mm/compaction/proactiveness.

The main changes from the v3 of this patchset is add of documentations.

[PATCH v3 00/25] Large pages in the page cache (Matthew Wilcox)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200429133657.22632-1-willy@infradead.org

This patchset is for use of huge pages in the page cache. This will reduce many of overheads. However, this patchset doesn’t pass the xfs test.

Linux 5.7-rc4 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjRQPn6zQnR2R2M6rupXq8OZTk7z9xJsUbgEADpZFX+NA@mail.gmail.com

The release candidate release of this week is a bit smaller than usual. It’s smallest rc4 since the tiny one we had over the Christmas week. Torvalds think this is due to a timing issue and because there was no pull request from network. That said, he also says things are calm.