LKML News v6.5-rc5

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add maple tree mailing list (Liam R. Howlett)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230731175542.1653200-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com

Maple tree has its own development mailing list at infradead.org. This patch adds it on the MAINTAINERS file.

Maple Tree Work 2023/08 (Laim R. Howlett)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230801194820.alch3ot7pvrgig5v@revolver

Liam shares monthlee update of maple tree work progress and todo for avoid conflict.

[RFC PATCH 0/2] vmrd: dynamic guest VM memory resizing daemon (Sudarshan Rajagopalan)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1690836010.git.quic_sudaraja@quicinc.com

Sudarshan posted an RFC for dynamic guest VM memory resizing based on the guest’s memory demand.

[PATCHSET 0/3] xfs: maintainer transition for 6.6 (Darrick J. Wong)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/169091989589.112530.11294854598557805230.stgit@frogsfrogsfrogs/

XFS maintainer, Darrick, steps down from XFS maintainer. He summarizes the reason of the decision, document details about XFS maintainership, and nominates next maintainer for the filesystem.

[PATCH v6 00/38] New page table range API (Matthew Wilcox)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802151406.3735276-1-willy@infradead.org

This patchset changes the page table entries setup APIs, namely set_ptes(), update_mmu_cache_range(), flush_dcache_folio(), and flush_icache_pages().

[PATCH v3 0/6] make vma locking more obvious (Suren Baghdasaryan)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230803172652.2849981-1-surenb@google.com

Suren found vma locking improvements with Linus and Jann during the recnet vma locking patch, and sent a patch.

Linux 6.5-rc5 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=whaG-mWjWphLJ6C-fGU9gRHLpMrTt2caCcjX4nDpQA6vg@mail.gmail.com

The fifth release candidate for Linux v6.5 continues looking pretty normal. Other than data race annotation in networking and a couple of network drivers, most patches are small enough.

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 2021-08-07 | ~/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 -rc5 releases in the last two years.