LKML News v5.8-rc5

[PATCH 0/2] KUnit-Kmemleak Integration (Uriel Guajardo)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200706210327.3313498-1-urielguajardojr@gmail.com

This patchset makes kunit to use kmemleak to catch memory leak in the test code.

[PATCH] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology (Dan Williams)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159389297140.2210796.13590142254668787525.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com

This patch adds a new document for inclusive term usage in the kernel tree. It suggests to stop using the terms, ‘slave’ and ‘blacklist’ anymore. This patch was revised two times and the third revision is merged in Torvalds’ tree by the Friday.

[PATCH V3] mm/vmstat: Add events for THP migration without split (Anshuman Khandual)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1594080415-27924-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com

This patch adds three new vmstat events for THP migration without split validation. The events are THP_MIGRATION_(SUCCESS|FAILURE|SPLIT).

Linux kernel in-tree Rust support (Nick Desaulniers)

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAKwvOdmuYc8rW_H4aQG4DsJzho=F+djd68fp7mzmBp3-wY--Uw@mail.gmail.com/

Nick is trying to put LLVM micro conference in the Linux Plumbers Conference. In the micro-conference, he wants to have a session for the kernel in-tree Rust support. For this, this mail asks people whether have interest in the topic.

Linux 5.8-rc5 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgX5+Q_trdMPaaQZmko0Og_eqAYoyMa_8S3ie+1Us6rkw@mail.gmail.com

rc4 was smaller than usual, and Torvalds says rc5 is bigger than usual, though not enormous. Nonetheless, its mainly due to the networking fixes that didn’t come in rc4, and Torvalds doesn’t hear something really scary sound from real people.

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 2018-07-13 | ~/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 -rc5 releases in the last two years.