LKML News v6.10-rc3
[PATCH v2 0/8] mm: workingset reporting (Yuanchu Xie)
https://lore.kernel.org/20240604020549.1017540-1-yuanchu@google.com
Yuanchu posted second version of the MGLRU-based workingset reporting patchset.
[PATCH 0/2] mm/pstore: Reserve named unspecified memory across boots (Steven Rostedt)
https://lore.kernel.org/20240603233330.801075898@goodmis.org
Steven posted a patch for reserving part of memory for pstore, which is
currently being reserved via firmware, via a new kernel command line parameter,
reserve_mem
.
[PATCH v4 00/11] riscv: Memory Hot(Un)Plug support (Björn Töpel)
https://lore.kernel.org/20240605114100.315918-1-bjorn@kernel.org
Björn posted the fourth version of the patchset for supporting memory
hot-[un]plugging and ZONE_DEVICE
support on RISC-V
.
[RFC] ML infrastructure in Linux kernel (Viacheslav Dubeyko)
https://lore.kernel.org/20240605110219.7356-1-slava@dubeyko.com
Viacheslav initiates a discussion about unified infrastructure for ML workloads and user-space drivers.
[PATCH] mm: introduce pmd|pte_need_soft_dirty_wp helpers for softdirty write-protect (Barry Song)
https://lore.kernel.org/20240606034016.82559-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Barry posted a patch for improving the code readability of soft-dirty pages by
introducing two helpers for determining if write protection is needed, namely
p{te,md}_need_soft_dirty_wp
.
[PATCH v13] mm: report per-page metadata information (Sourav Panda)
https://lore.kernel.org/20240605222751.1406125-1-souravpanda@google.com
Sourav posted the 13th version of the patch for reporting per-page metadata infomration.
[PATCH 6.6.y] mm: ratelimit stat flush from workingset shrinker (Jesper Dangaard Brouer)
https://lore.kernel.org/171776806121.384105.7980809581420394573.stgit@firesoul
Jesper is asking this Shakeel’s patch to be merged in 6.6.y to resolve a regression from Linux v6.6.
Unifying page table walkers (Matthew Wilcox)
https://lore.kernel.org/ZmIAAjiO4AEd8-Jb@casper.infradead.org
Matthew shares his idea on unifying page table walkers for THP and hugetlb and asking more opinions.
[PATCH] x86: add ‘runtime constant’ infrastructure (Linus Torvalds)
https://lore.kernel.org/20240608193504.429644-2-torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Linus Torvalds posted a patch for implementing runtime constant infrastructure on x86.
Linus 6.10-rc3 (Linus Torvalds)
https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wiK75SY+r3W5hx+Tt_bjhcSKPLdji-Zf_8HjikRPbn9wg@mail.gmail.com
After the week of 6.10-rc2, Linus Torvalds released the third release candidate of Linux v6.10. He says the last week was normal and the water is warm, and asks people to test.