LKML News v6.5-rc3
[PATCH v4 0/6] Add support for memmap on memory feature on ppc64 (Aneesh Kumar K.V)
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230718024409.95742-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
The fourth version of the patchset for support of memmap on memory
on ppc64
has posted.
[GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.5-rc2 (Andrew Morton)
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230718123131.5ec065527c2127a568e5754c@linux-foundation.org
Andrew sent mm subsystem hotfixes for 6.5 rc2 to Linus.
[PATCH v2 0/5] Invalidate secondary IOMMU TLB on permission upgrade (Alistair Popple)
This patch moves secondary TLB invcalidation mmu notifier callbacks to architecture specific TLB flushing functions. The first version of the patch make build failures, so v2 has posted.
[PATCH v3 0/5] Invalidate secondary IOMMU TLB on permission upgrade (Alistair Popple)
The second version of this patchset caused NULL dereference issue. This version fixes it.
[PATCH] mm/hotplug: Enable runtime update of memmap_on_memory parameter (Aneesh Kumar K.V)
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230721131951.306706-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
This makes memmap_on_memory
modue parameter permission from read only to
read-write, so that it can be updated at runtime.
[RFC PATCH] Documentation/page_tables: MMU, TLB, and Page Faults (Fabio M. De Francesco)
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230722004451.7730-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com
This patch extends page_tables.rst
by adding asection for MMU, TLB, and page
faults.
Linux 6.5-rc3 (Linus Torvalds)
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wi4Yau-3Bsv2rXYmtXMTLaj3=Wyf4cdM6d89czFvkVsRQ@mail.gmail.com
Like last week, things continue to look pretty normal without anything stands out, according to Linus Torvalds. As a result, the third v6.5 release candidate is available.
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 2021-07-24 | ~/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 -rc2 releases in the last two years.