LKML News v6.17-rc5

[GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.17-rc5 (Andrew Morton)

https://lore.kernel.org/20250901172234.3a74524a97b595a5a81d1697@linux-foundation.org

Andrew posted MM hotfixes pull request for 6.17-rc5 to Linus Torvalds.

[PATCH v2 RFC 0/7] KFuzzTest: a new kernel fuzzing framework (Ethan Graham)

https://lore.kernel.org/20250901164212.460229-1-ethan.w.s.graham@gmail.com

Ethan posted second RFC version patch series for kernel internal fuzzing test framework.

[v4 00/15] mm: support device-private THP (Balbir Singh)

https://lore.kernel.org/20250903011900.3657435-1-balbirs@nvidia.com

Balbir posted the fourth version of the patch series for supporting THP on device-private memory.

Where to put page->memdesc initially (Matthew Wilcox)

https://lore.kernel.org/aLc_nckaDc2ePRv7@casper.infradead.org

As folio project proceeds, Matthew starts a discussion for where to put memdesc initially.

[PATCH v2 00/15] mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I) (Kairui Song)

https://lore.kernel.org/20250905191357.78298-1-ryncsn@gmail.com

Kairui posted the second version of his swap table intro patch series.

[PATCH] tools/mm: Add madvise tool (Kiryl Shutemov)

https://lore.kernel.org/20250904175729.1029735-1-kirill@shutemov.name

Kiryl posted a patch for adding a new tool for madvise control. Michal Hocko raises a question of why this really need in tree, though.

Linux 6.17-rc5 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wh5AyuvEhNY9a57v-vwyr7EkPVRUKMPwj92yF_K0dJHVg@mail.gmail.com

Linus releases the fifth candidate for Linux v6.17. He claims everythings look normal, though there is a 2K lines insertion due to re-introduction of a module. Notably Linus also asks people to stop using Link: tags mindlessly, but only for useful case such as a bug reports or discussions around the commit. He argues most reporters doesn’t report bugs or start discussion around a commit on the original patch submission thread, and hence the link is not really useful.