LKML News v6.4-rc6

As of 2023-06-06, for some reason https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm seems stopped being updated since 2023-05-31. On the day of 2023-06-06, the update has resumed.

[PATCH v3 0/5] riscv: Introduce KASLR (Alexandre Ghiti)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230606123242.20804-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com

This patchset introduces KASLR, which allows kernel mapping randomization, for riscv.

Question about oom-killer (Gou Hao)

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/A31B3EA06AF77F13+c7278bd0-2695-4cc0-5a56-531a06ac2389@uniontech.com/

A question about oom-killer behavior that suspected to be a kernel bug.

[PATCH v3] Documentation/mm: Initial page table documentation (Linus Walleij)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230608125501.3960093-1-linus.walleij@linaro.org

Linus Walleij wrote down the documentation for page table, based on an earlier blog post at people.kernel.org.

[PATCH v2 0/6] Per-vma lock support for swap and userfaults (Suren Baghdasaryan)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230609005158.2421285-1-surenb@google.com

The per-vma lock patchset skipped swap and userfaults cases. This patchset further implement logics for supporting those with per-vma lock and add the support.

Linux 6.4-rc6 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgmbjQu3bVSa5JJhEymeQhkr7N3cjg-CoNLVituUnfW8w@mail.gmail.com

The sixth release candidate of Linux v6.4 has released. No hugely interesting happened last week, according to Linus Torvalds’ opinion.

Below is the diffstat of the releases in the last two years.

Note that the y-axis is in logarithm. I draw it using https://github.com/sjp38/relstat and https://github.com/sjp38/lazybox using below command:

$ relstat.py --since 2021-06-12 | ~/lazybox/gnuplot/plot.py \
    --data_fmt table --type labeled-lines --xtics_rotate -90 \
    --font "Times New Roman, 5pt" --ylog --pointsize 0.3

And, below is the diffstat of the -rc7 releases in the last two years.