[PATCH RFC] mm: use per_vma lock for MADV_DONTNEED (Barry Song)
https://lore.kernel.org/20250527044145.13153-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Barry posted an RFC to make MADV_DONTNEED
madvise()
calls to use per-vma
lock when the region is in a signle vma.
[PATCH v4] tools/mm: Add script to display page state for a given PID and VADDR (Ye Liu)
https://lore.kernel.org/20250528091543.355386-1-ye.liu@linux.dev
Ye posted fourth version of a patch for drgn script that shows detailed information of page for a given virtual address.
[DISCUSSION] proposed mctl() API (Lorenzo Stoakes)
https://lore.kernel.org/85778a76-7dc8-4ea8-8827-acb45f74ee05@lucifer.local
Lorenzo started a discussion thread for a new syscall, mctl(), which is for
making mm_struct
level behavior control.
How should we RCU-free folios? (Matthew Wilcox)
https://lore.kernel.org/aDh3INMq0_j7pgwU@casper.infradead.org
Matthew shares his thought about RCU-free-ing folios for a world that folios become no more head pages.
[GIT PULL] MM updates for 6.16-rc1 (Andrew Morton)
https://lore.kernel.org/20250531145342.383090aa5ed5bcefee0740d5@linux-foundation.org
Andrew posted MM pull request for 6.16-rc1.
[GIT PULL] Additional MM updates for 6.16-rc1 (Andrew Morton)
https://lore.kernel.org/20250601151222.60ead71e7d8492a18c711a05@linux-foundation.org
Two days after the first PR, Andrew posted additional MM updates for 6.16-rc1.
[RFC PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add mm swap section (Lorenzo Stoakes)
https://lore.kernel.org/20250602152015.54366-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Lorenzo posted yet another MAINTAINERS improvement patch for MM subsystem.
[Linux Memory Hotness and Promotion] Notes from May 22, 2025 (David Rientjes)
https://lore.kernel.org/00b77c99-b2d1-15e6-bcd0-b363f7571d6f@google.com
David posted a summary of last Linux memory hotness and promotion meeting discussion.
Linux 6.16-rc1 (Linus Torvalds)
https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wiiqYoM_Qdr3L15BqJUyRi6JjR02HSovwwz+BXy7DdVeA@mail.gmail.com
Linus closed the merge window for Linux 6.16, and released the first release candidate. Linus says it felt fairly normal merge widnow, with under 13k non-merge commits, about one thousand merges and 1783 unique authors.