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[GIT PULL] slab updates for 6.11 (Vlastimil Babka) https://lore.kernel.org/8d6c5d10-5750-4472-858c-eadc105453be@suse.cz Vlastimil sent the slab pull request for Linux 6.12-rc1. Apparently the title is a typo. [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add hazard pointers to kernel (Boqun Feng) https://lore.kernel.org/20240917143402.930114-1-boqun.feng@gmail.com Boqun posted a patch series for introducing hazard pointers for kernel space, which is “a scalable reference counting mechanism with RCU-like API”. [GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.12-rc1 (Andrew Morton) https://lore.kernel.org/20240919003557.1777673c0f759f9e4ebaa328@linux-foundation.org Andrew sent a hotfixes pull request for 6....

[RFC PATCH -next 0/3] fs: Introduce the scope-based resource management for folio_lock/unlock (Li Zetao) https://lore.kernel.org/20240826071036.2445717-1-lizetao1@huawei.com Li proposes scope-based resource management for folio locking. [PATCH 0/2] get rid of PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM (Michal Hocko) https://lore.kernel.org/20240826085347.1152675-1-mhocko@kernel.org Michal argues PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM has merged even though MM people pushed it back, and attempts to get rid of it by updating its users to use explicit GFP_NOWAIT allocation context. [PATCH] bcachefs: Switch to memalloc_flags_do() for vmalloc allocations (Kent Overstreet) https://lore....

[PATCH v4 0/6] mm: split underused THPs (Usama Arif) https://lore.kernel.org/20240819023145.2415299-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com Yusama posted the fourth version of the patch series for splitting underutilized THPs for keeping THP performance gain while reducing the huge page internal fragmentation-cuased memory usage bloat. [PATCH 0/5] page allocation tag compression (Suren Baghdasaryan) https://lore.kernel.org/20240819151512.2363698-1-surenb@google.com Suren sent a patch series for improving page allocation tagging. [PATCH 0/4] Increase the number of bits available in page_type (Matthew Wilcox) https://lore.kernel.org/20240821173914.2270383-1-willy@infradead.org...

[PATCH v3 0/6] mm: split underutilized THPs (Usama Arif) https://lore.kernel.org/20240813120328.1275952-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com Usama posted the third version of THP split patch series. [PATCH] Reenable NUMA policy support in the slab allocator (Christoph Lameter) https://lore.kernel.org/20240812-numa_policy-v1-1-1732602b976c@gentwo.org Christoph sent a patch that reverts previous commit that disabled the numa policy support in the slab allocator. [RFC PATCH v1 0/4] mm: ZSWAP swap-out of mTHP folios (Kanchan P Sridhar) https://lore.kernel.org/20240814062830.26833-1-kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com Kanchan sent an RFC patch series for enabling zswap_store() storing mTHP folios....

[PATCH 00/10] mm: remove vma_merge() (Lorenzo Stoakes) https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1722849859.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Lorenzo posted a patchset for removing the infamous vma_merge(), which caused too much complexity, and the prior attempt remove it was failed. [RFC PATCH 0/4] mm/arm64: re-enable HVO (Yu Zhao) https://lore.kernel.org/20240806022114.3320543-1-yuzhao@google.com Yu sent an RFC patchset for re-enabling HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization on arm64. [PATCH 00/10] Introduce guestmemfs: persistent in-memory filesystem (James Gowans) https://lore.kernel.org/20240805093245.889357-1-jgowans@amazon.com James Gowans posted a patch series for a new in-memory filesystem that designed for live update....