LKML News v6.13-rc4

[RFC PATCH 00/12] khugepaged: Asynchronous mTHP collapse (Dev Jain)

https://lore.kernel.org/20241216165105.56185-1-dev.jain@arm.com

Dev Jain posted an RFC patch series that makes khugepaged collapses multi-sized THP.

[PATCH] mm/page_idle: Constify ‘struct bin_attribute’ (Thomas Weißschuh)

https://lore.kernel.org/20241216-sysfs-const-bin_attr-page_idle-v1-1-cc01ecc55196@weissschuh.net

Thomas marks struct bin_attribute objects that used in page_idle to be marked as const, since it is now supported.

Slow-tier Page Promotion discussion recap and open questions (David Rientjes)

https://lore.kernel.org/6d582bb6-3ba5-1768-92f2-6025340a3cd4@google.com

David shares his summary of the discussions around asynchronous page promotion approach from AMD that was held on last MM alignment session.

Linux 6.13-rc4 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wh+aZScT9-7ON58kfvuZiMdcvGRAWqM=J9BWfYDEOA99w@mail.gmail.com

Linus Torvalds released the fourth candidaste of Linux 6.13, which is bit smaller than usual. Torvalds thinks it is due to the holidays, and the tendency will continue to rc5.