[Invitation] bi-weekly guest_memfd upstream call on 2024-10-17 (David Hildenbrand)
https://lore.kernel.org/df619e65-e65e-4856-b4ca-9938e8e08f18@redhat.com
David starts a bi-weekly call series for discussing guest_memfd. The first
instance will be held on 2024-10-17 9am PT.
[Invitation] Linux MM Alignment Session on IOMMU(fd) persistence and Kexec Hand Over (KHO) on Wednesday (David Rientjes)
https://lore.kernel.org/c85a45fb-7b21-4f9f-568a-e86debbd001a@google.com
David invites people to next MM alignment session. The topic will be Amazon’s kexec hand-over for making iommu persistent during live update of kernel.
[PATCH v3 0/5] page allocation tag compression (Suren Baghdasaryan)
https://lore.kernel.org/20241014203646.1952505-1-surenb@google.com
Suren posted the third version of the patch series for reducing page allocation profiling’s memory overhead.
[RFC 0/2] rwsem: introduce upgrade_read interface (Li Zhe)
https://lore.kernel.org/20241016043600.35139-1-lizhe.67@bytedance.com
Li sent an RFC patch for introducing new reader-writer semaphore feature for upgrading it from read lock to write lock. He mentions khugepaged as an example that can get benefit from the new feature. There are some questions about the fundamental problem of the semantic though.
Pmemfs/guestmemfs discussion recap and open questions (David Rientjes)
https://lore.kernel.org/f44f317a-2dcb-cfe2-013c-7508907ce3df@google.com
David shares a summary of yesterday’s MM alignment session for live hypervisor kernel upgrade using KHO, with open questions that not got aligned answers yesterdasy.
[PATCH 0/1] memcg/hugetlb: Adding hugeTLB counters to memory controller (Joshua Hahn)
https://lore.kernel.org/20241017160438.3893293-1-joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com
Joshua posted a patch for adding hugetlb usage counter to memcg.
[RFC 0/4] mm: zswap: add support for zswapin of large folios (Usama Arif)
https://lore.kernel.org/20241018105026.2521366-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Usama posted an RFC patch series for supporting large folios swapin to zswap.
Linux 6.12-rc4 (Linus Torvalds)
https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wi4OfH8kHmsss97bRvUo=GUEcRSGTYFwqNUL-8x_h-ROA@mail.gmail.com
Linus released the fourth candidate for Linux v6.12. It is the biggest rc4 of 6.x era, and Linus is not happy about the size. He shows no real problematic changes and guess it maybe due to just random timing, though.