LKML News v6.1-rc5

[PATCH v2] mm: anonymous shared memory naming (Pasha Tatashin)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221107184715.3950621-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com

Second version of the patch for allowing shared anonymous memory mapping naming has posted.

Deprecating and removing SLOB (Vlastimil Babka)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b35c3f82-f67b-2103-7d82-7a7ba7521439@suse.cz

Vlastimil is describing his proposal for removing SLOB, mainly for the code maintenance overhead, and trying to continue discussions for that.

[PATCH 1/4] mm: introduce ‘encoded’ page pointers with embedded extra bits (Linus Torvalds)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221109203051.1835763-1-torvalds@linux-foundation.org

Linus Torvalds has posted a patchset for a new type called struct encoded_page, which is for struct page pointers having extra flags in it.

[GIT PULL] slab fixes for 6.1-rc4 (Vlastimil Babka)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87a751bc-34be-b96e-f157-9c841d153f52@suse.cz

Vlastimil sent a pull request for slab fixes to Linus Torvalds.

[GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.1-rc5 (Andrew Morton)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221111171202.b8b7ff671c97cb9782ad8e78@linux-foundation.org

Andrew sent a pull request for hotfixes. A DAMON fix for a syzbox-found bug is also included.

Linux 6.1-rc5 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wicGu7PD25w7BCdvxRcs6Yvo-BPwCkzSYjM2CYtDjz2kg@mail.gmail.com

Unlike Linus’ expectation, 6.1-rc5 didn’t shrink but had commits as many as 6.1-rc4. No real strange things stands out, but if it doesn’t shrink down now, Linux says he would have the extra week for 6.1.

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 2020-11-14 | ~/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.