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[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....

[RFC PATCH v3 0/4] sched+mm: Track lazy active mm existence with hazard pointers (Mathew Desnoyers) https://lore.kernel.org/20241008135034.1982519-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Mathiew Desnoyers posted the third version of his hazard pointer patch series for optimizing active_mm tracking following comments from Peter Zijlstra and Paul E. McKenney on the previous versions of the patch series. [RFC PATCH 0/1] Buddy allocator like folio split (Zi Yan) https://lore.kernel.org/20241008223748.555845-1-ziy@nvidia.com Zi Yan posted an RFC patch for making folio split behaves like the Buddy allocator, to reduce total number of folios after splits....

[PATCH v2 1/2] virt: pvmemcontrol: control guest physical memory properties (Yuanchu Xie) https://lore.kernel.org/20241001011328.2806686-1-yuanchu@google.com Yuanchu posted the second version of a patch series for pvmemcontrol, which allows VM guests control their physcial memory properties and enable security features optimizations. [Invitation] Linux MM Alignment Session on shared PTEs across processes on Wednesday (David Rientjes) https://lore.kernel.org/eb2ce2c1-9fbd-215b-9973-7ec515c14015@google.com Dadiv shares next Linux MM alignment session will be held this Wednesday. The topic will be “Add support for shared PTEs across processes”, aka mshare()....

[PATCH hotfix 6.11] minmax: reduce egregious min/max macro expansion (Lorenzo Stoakes) https://lore.kernel.org/20240911153457.1005227-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Lorenzo sent a patch for resolving min()/max() expansions causing kernel build time issue by fixing a few known-bad cases of nested macro usages. [RFC PATCH 0/7] support for mm-local memory allocations and use it (Fares Mehanna) https://lore.kernel.org/20240911143421.85612-1-faresx@amazon.de Fares posted an RFC patch series for mm-local memory allocations for pushing those out of rach for possible speculation based cross-process attacks....

[PATCH 00/15] timers: Cleanup delay/sleep related mess (Anna-Maria Behnsen) https://lore.kernel.org/20240904-devel-anna-maria-b4-timers-flseep-v1-0-e98760256370@linutronix.de A discussion started from a question about acpi_os_sleep() concluded the documentation is outdated, and same for some code for the same reason. This patchset tries to update the documents and code. [PATCH 0/2 v2] remove PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM (Michal Hocko) https://lore.kernel.org/20240902095203.1559361-1-mhocko@kernel.org Michal sent the second revision of PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM removal patchset with Reviewed-by: tags in a more formal version. [GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6....