LKML News v6.10-rc1
[LSFMM] automating measuring memory fragmentation (Luis Chamberlain)
https://lore.kernel.org/ZkUOXQvVjXP1T6Nk@bombadil.infradead.org
Luis suggested yet another LSFMM session for memory fragmentation measurement aiming to be used to understand how bad the current kernel’s defragmentation approach is, and how much improvement some new proposal is making.
page-flags.rst (Matthew Wilcox)
https://lore.kernel.org/ZkOu4yXP-sGGtwc4@casper.infradead.org
Matthew posted the page-flags documentation that he wrote with LSFMM attendees on his session.
[GIT PULL] MM updates for 6.10-rc1 (Andrew Morton)
https://lore.kernel.org/20240517192239.9285edd85f8ef893bb508a61@linux-foundation.org
Andrew sent the memory management part pull request for 6.10-rc1. Lots of interesting changes are included. Among those, I show below changes interesting.
- Memory allocation profiling
- mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene
- Improve compaction efficiency
- mm: add per-order mTHP alloc and swpout counters
- Improve visibility of writeback
[GIT PULL] non-MM updates for 6.10-rc1 (Andrew Morton)
https://lore.kernel.org/20240519115735.acabb2269a1a91ee0ebdbca5@linux-foundation.org
Andrew further sent the non-mm part pull request for 6.10-rc1.
[RESEND PATCH 00/10] memblock: introduce memsize showing reserved memory (Jaewon Kim)
https://lore.kernel.org/20240521023957.2587005-1-jaewon31.kim@samsung.com
Jaewon posted a patchset introducing a debugfs node that shows reserved memory easily.
[PATCH 0/2] Improve dump_page() output for slab pages (Sukrit Bhatnagar)
https://lore.kernel.org/20240522074629.2420423-1-Sukrit.Bhatnagar@sony.com
Since struct slab
has separated from struct page
, dump_page()
, which
accesses ->mapping
of struct page
gets garbage data. This patchset fixes
it to show valid output from dump_page()
.
[GIT PULL] additional MM updates for 6.10-rc1 (Andrew Morton)
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240522172431.d2aa8775d7a48999afbc29b4@linux-foundation.org
Andrew Morton posted one more memory management subsystem pull request for v6.10-rc1.
[PATCH 0/2] Improve dmesg output for swapfile+hibernation (Sukrit Bhatnagar)
https://lore.kernel.org/20240522074658.2420468-1-Sukrit.Bhatnagar@sony.com
Sukrit found doing hibernation while using swapfile needs some tedious setup
using user space tools such as filefrag
for getting the swapfile offset
value. This patchset allows the value conveniently printed in dmesg output
when doing swapon
.
[PATCH v3 0/5] Enhance soft hwpoison handling and injection (Jane Chu)
https://lore.kernel.org/20240521235429.2368017-1-jane.chu@oracle.com
Jane posted a patchset for improving soft hwpoison to behave more like real error, and more.
[GIT PULL] final MM update for 6.10-rc1 (Andrew Morton)
https://lore.kernel.org/20240524115135.3b6fd971bdb3e538e1873632@linux-foundation.org
Andrew sent memory management subsystem’s final pull request for 6.10-rc1. It
includes the mseal()
system call patchset.
Linux 6.10-rc1 (Linus Torvalds)
https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wjQv_CSPzhjOMoOjGO3FmuHe5hzm6Ds69zZSFPa4PeuCA@mail.gmail.com
After the two weeks, the merge window for Linux 6.10 is closed, and Linus Torvalds announced the first release candidate of v6.10. Torvalds says it is a regular-sized, even slightly smaller side one.