[GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.12-rc6 (Andrew Morton)

https://lore.kernel.org/20241028203743.3fe4d95463aaafe23a239b51@linux-foundation.org

Andrew posted mm hotfixes for v6.12-rc6.

[PATCH v2 0/4] mm: add more kernel parameters to control mTHP (Maíra Canal)

https://lore.kernel.org/20241029002324.1062723-1-mcanal@igalia.com

Maira posted a patch series for adding kernel parameters to control mTHP for shmem.

[Invitation] Linux MM Alignment Session on Memory Error Detector on Wednesday (David Rientjes)

https://lore.kernel.org/9242f7cc-6b9d-b807-9079-db0ca81f3c6d@google.com

David invites kernel developers to another MM alignment session. The topic is how to make user-space control memory failure recovery.

[PATCH 0/6] futex: The remaining futex2 bits (Peter Zijlstra)

https://lore.kernel.org/20241025090347.244183920@infradead.org

Peter posted a patch series for futex2 including NUMA-aware futex2.

[Invitation] bi-weekly guest_memfd upstream call on 2024-10-31 (David Hildenbrand)

https://lore.kernel.org/ae794891-fe69-411a-b82e-6963b594a62a@redhat.com

David invits developers to the guest_memfd upstream call series.

[RFC PATCH v3 0/6] Direct Map Removal for guest_memfd (Patrick Roy)

https://lore.kernel.org/20241030134912.515725-1-roypat@amazon.co.uk

Patrick posted an RFC removing VM guest memory from the host kernel’s direct map as a mitigation against Spectre-style problems.

[RFC PATCH 0/3] Cgroup-based THP control (Asier Gutierrez)

https://lore.kernel.org/20241030083311.965933-1-gutierrez.asier@huawei-partners.com

Asier posted an RFC patch for making THP controllable per cgroup.

[GIT PULL] slab fixes for 6.12-rc6 (Vlastimil Babka)

https://lore.kernel.org/fcd42c5a-0350-4073-951f-4a8332b7b3de@suse.cz

Vlastimil posted slab fixes pull request for Linux 6.12-rc6.

[RFC PATCH] docs/mm: add VMA locks documentation (Lorenzo Stoakes)

https://lore.kernel.org/20241101185033.131880-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com

Lorenzo posted an RFC for VMA locking documentation.

Linux 6.12-rc6 (Linus Torvalds)

https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=whORbp07SkmAUbXTRtjk7imEgWXReGMaeteMg-gAFU_cA@mail.gmail.com

Linus released the sixth candidate for Linux v6.12 after a week. It is a bit bigger than usual, but in the normal range, and changes are spread among usual subsystems.