LKML News v6.13-rc3

[Invitation] Linux MM Alignment Session on Slow-tier Page Promotion on Wednesday (David Rientjes)

https://lore.kernel.org/52a4867a-f330-4d3f-2da8-0919bc49c6ea@google.com

David Rientjes invites MM people to the next alignment session. The topic is slow-tier page promotion, led by RaghavendraKT from AMD. They have RFC, too: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20241201153818.2633616-1-raghavendra.kt@amd.com/T/#t

[PATCH mm-unstable 00/17] mm: Introduce arch_mmap_hint() (Kalesh Singh)

https://lore.kernel.org/20241210024119.2488608-1-kaleshsingh@google.com

Kalesh posted a patch that introducing per-architecture mmap_hint() implementation and fixing the mmap hint being ignored due to THP in some cases.

[Invitation] bi-weekly guest_memfd upstream call on 2024-12-12 (David Hildenbrand)

https://lore.kernel.org/b9567cbf-8ad7-440a-8768-f4e7dbd2b5f7@redhat.com

David invites people to next bi-weekly guest memfd upstream call, which would be the last one of 2024.

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update MEMORY MAPPING section (Lorenzo Stoakes)

https://lore.kernel.org/20241211105315.21756-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com

After the discussion on adding every vma-related files to VMA section of MAINTAINERS file, Lorenzo posted a patch moving all files to MEMORY MAPPING section and remove VMA section.

LSF/MM/BPF: 2025: Call for Proposals (Michal Hocko)

https://lore.kernel.org/Z1wQcKKw14iei0Va@tiehlicka

Michal posted CFP for LSF/MM/BPF 2025. It will be held March 24-26 at Montreal.

Linux 6.13-rc3 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wh7Wjqo_e1bLeEijGkDaw7XcD3+F5kLZYkJfah8wS=evg@mail.gmail.com

Linus released the third candidate of Linux 6.13. In spite of the holidays season timing, the changelog looks very normal.