LKML News v6.12

[PATCH 0/4] move per-vma lock into vm_area_struct (Suren Baghdasaryan)

https://lore.kernel.org/20241111205506.3404479-1-surenb@google.com

Suren posted a patch moving vm_lock back into vm_area_struct after confirming the performance regression found before happens only on limited cases (old Broadwell microarchitecture).

[PATCH] lib/alloc_tag: Remove the sysctl configuration to prevent users from disabling it at runtime (Hao Ge)

https://lore.kernel.org/20241108075004.131911-1-hao.ge@linux.dev

Hao tries to remove runtime memory allocation profiling on/off knob, since he believes it is only making users confused.

[GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.12 (Andrew Morton)

https://lore.kernel.org/20241112164128.20f96b224ec3e2be9403fee2@linux-foundation.org

Andrew posted the hotfixes pull request for Linux v6.12 to Linus Torvalds.

[PATCH RFC 0/6] SLUB percpu sheaves (Vlastimil Babka)

https://lore.kernel.org/20241112-slub-percpu-caches-v1-0-ddc0bdc27e05@suse.cz

Vlastimil posted an RFC for adding per-cpu array based caching layer to SLUB, which can be opted-in by the users.

[GIT PULL] slab updates for 6.13 (Vlastimil Babka)

https://lore.kernel.org/03ec75a9-aade-4457-ac21-5649116afa98@suse.cz

Vlastimil posted the slab pull request for v6.13.

Linux 6.12 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wgtGkHshfvaAe_O2ntnFBH3EprNk1juieLmjcF2HBwBgQ@mail.gmail.com

After the normal seven weekly candidates, Linus Torvalds released Linux v6.12.