LKML News v6.7-rc2

[PATCH v7 00/10] Small-sized THP for anonymous memory (Ryan Roberts)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231115132734.931023-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com

The seventh revision of small-sized anonymout memory THP is posted.

[PATCH v2 00/14] Transparent Contiguous PTEs for User Mappings (Ryan Roberts)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231115163018.1303287-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com

This patchset makes opportunistic and transparent contpte mappings for user memory when it meets the requirement.

[GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.7-rc2 (Andrew Morton)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231117140848.02adcf56c301bb3ab85ae75a@linux-foundation.org

MM subsystem hotfixes for rc2 has sent to Linus Torvalds.

Linux 6.7-rc2 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wj6j3U5r8ixVf_RQXwRYD03DuEqnX2ZsfYwvB-9YxQNLA@mail.gmail.com

Last week was having LPC and maintainers summit, so Linus expected the rc2 be small, but it resulted in slightly larger than the average. Linus says nothing bad or scary though.

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 2021-11-20 | ~/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.