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[RFC][PATCH 0/4] slab: Allow for type introspection during allocation (Kees Cook)

https://lore.kernel.org/20240708190924.work.846-kees@kernel.org

Kees posted this RFC patch, which allows kmalloc() be able to know the type of the object that it is requested to allocate memory for. It is done by letting kmalloc() optionally receives the pointer instead of the size.

[Invitation] Linux MM Alignment Session on guest_memfd() mapping, hugepages, and page pinning on Wednesday

https://lore.kernel.org/197a2f19-c71c-fbde-a62a-213dede1f4fd@google.com

David invites MM community to another instance of the MM alignment. It will address guest_memfd() mapping, hugepages, and page pinning and led by Elliot Berman and Fuad Tabba.

[MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Device Passthrough Considered Harmful? (Dan Williams)

https://lore.kernel.org/

Dan proposes yet another maintainers summit topic.

[PATCH] mm/cma: export total and free number of pages for CMA areas (Frank van der Linden)

https://lore.kernel.org/20240709163053.2514760-1-fvdl@google.com

Frank posted a patch for exporting the total and free number of CMA pages per area via new CMA sysfs files, namely total_pages and available_pages.

[PATCH v1 0/2] mTHP allocation stats for file-backed memory (Ryan Roberts)

https://lore.kernel.org/20240711072929.3590000-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com

Ryan posted a patchset for exposing file-backed memory’s mTHP allocation stats. He also mentions he is planning to build folio size restriction.

Linux 6.10 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wjV_O2g_K19McjGKrxFxMFDqex+fyGcKc3uac1ft_O2gg@mail.gmail.com

After the seventh week from the close of the merge window, Linus Torvalds released Linux v6.10. He says the last week was not quiet as much as the proceeding ones but not that much to deserve an extra rc week.