LKML News v6.11-rc7

[PATCH 00/15] timers: Cleanup delay/sleep related mess (Anna-Maria Behnsen)

https://lore.kernel.org/20240904-devel-anna-maria-b4-timers-flseep-v1-0-e98760256370@linutronix.de

A discussion started from a question about acpi_os_sleep() concluded the documentation is outdated, and same for some code for the same reason. This patchset tries to update the documents and code.

[PATCH 0/2 v2] remove PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM (Michal Hocko)

https://lore.kernel.org/20240902095203.1559361-1-mhocko@kernel.org

Michal sent the second revision of PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM removal patchset with Reviewed-by: tags in a more formal version.

[GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.11-rc7 (Andrew Morton)

https://lore.kernel.org/20240903202651.f258324d271b4813dfa8de7a@linux-foundation.org

Andrew sent hotfixes for 6.11-rc7 to Linus Torvalds.

[PATCH v2 0/6] page allocation tag compression (Suren Baghdasaryan)

https://lore.kernel.org/20240902044128.664075-1-surenb@google.com

Suren posted several improvements for page allocation tagging including page allocation references storing memory overhead reduction.

[PATCH -next] mm: introduce per-node proactive reclaim interface (Davidlohr Bueso)

https://lore.kernel.org/20240904162740.1043168-1-dave@stgolabs.net

Davidlohr reposted the per-node proactive reclaim interface patch saying he now believes the semantics and expectations became clearer.

[PATCH 0/2] uprobes,mm: speculative lockless VMA-to-uprobe lookup (Andrii Nakryiko)

https://lore.kernel.org/20240906051205.530219-1-andrii@kernel.org

Andrii sent a patch series for doing vm_area to inode to uprobe while bypassing read-acquiring mmap_lock if possible.

[PATCH] mm: move mm flags to mm_types.h (Nanyong Sun)

https://lore.kernel.org/20240905152622.1205046-1-sunnanyong@huawei.com

Nanyong posted a patch moving mm flags from linux/sched/coredump.h to linux/mm_types.h, since the flags are not only for the core dump related features anymore.

Linux 6.11-rc7 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=whHwbceFq8XCK2uLCK9_aGywqmgMq3Udp5OJwFvLixpEA@mail.gmail.com

Linus Torvalds did the seventh Linux v6.11 candidate release on the usual Sunday time after returning to his regular timezone. Linus says the size of the rc7 is not really what he wanted. It is bigger than not only usual rc7 but even more than rc6 and rc5 were. Also if he does the usual release of the usual timeline, the next merge window will open during the maintainers summit week. Both the big size of the candidate and the conflict with travel are possible reasons for delaying the release. But he also says those are not necessarily the reason since he shows no scary changes, and maintainers could finish works before the maintianers summit travel. So, we’ll see how it will go next Sunday.