LKML News v6.12-rc3

[RFC PATCH v3 0/4] sched+mm: Track lazy active mm existence with hazard pointers (Mathew Desnoyers)

https://lore.kernel.org/20241008135034.1982519-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com

Mathiew Desnoyers posted the third version of his hazard pointer patch series for optimizing active_mm tracking following comments from Peter Zijlstra and Paul E. McKenney on the previous versions of the patch series.

[RFC PATCH 0/1] Buddy allocator like folio split (Zi Yan)

https://lore.kernel.org/20241008223748.555845-1-ziy@nvidia.com

Zi Yan posted an RFC patch for making folio split behaves like the Buddy allocator, to reduce total number of folios after splits.

Proposal: bi-weekly guest_memfd upstream call (David Hildenbrand)

https://lore.kernel.org/4b49248b-1cf1-44dc-9b50-ee551e1671ac@redhat.com

David Hildenbrand proposes having a bi-weekly meeting for ongoing guest_memfd development, for Thursday 9:00-10:00 PDT.

[GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.12-rc3 (Andrew Morton)

https://lore.kernel.org/20241009155033.485bc6df1a01b6dfca93a9d9@linux-foundation.org

Andre posted the hotfixes for next Linux v6.12 release candidate. It contains Michal’s PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM revert series.

[PATCH] mm, slab: add kerneldocs for common SLAB_ flags (Vlastimil Babka)

Vlastimil posted a patch adding kerneldoc comments for SLAB_ flags.

Linux 6.12-rc3 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wg061j_0+a0wen8E-wxSzKx_TGCkKw-r1tvsp5fLeT0pA@mail.gmail.com

Linus Torvalds released the third candidate of Linux v6.12. He notes the diff looks odd for regenerated UTF table that was made due to an one-liner change. It is ignorable, and no really abnormal things are there.