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[RFC PATCH v5 mm-new 0/5] mm, bpf: BPF based THP order selection (Yafang Shao) https://lore.kernel.org/20250818055510.968-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com Yafang posted the fifth RFC patch series for BPF-based THP control. [PATCH v1 00/14] mm: BPF OOM (Roman Guschin) https://lore.kernel.org/20250818170136.209169-1-roman.gushchin@linux.dev Roman posted the first non-RFC patchset for BPF-based out of memory handling. [RFC PATCH mm-next v2 00/12] mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE (Quanmin Yan) https://lore.kernel.org/20250820080623.3799131-1-yanquanmin1@huawei.com Quanmin posted second RFC version of patch series for extending DAMON to support ARM32 with LPAE....

August 19, 2025 · 1 min · 148 words · Me

LKML News v6.17-rc2

[PATCH v3 00/11] mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements (David Hildenbrand) https://lore.kernel.org/20250811112631.759341-1-david@redhat.com David posted third version of the patch series for improving vm_normal_page*(). [RFC PATCH v4 00/28] Cache aware load-balancing (Chen Yu) https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1754712565.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Chen Yu posted a patch series for cache-aware scheduping, which was originally proposed by Pter. [PATCH 00/10] mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches (Lorenzo Stoakes) https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1755012943.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Lorenzo posted a patch series for refactoring mm->flags for arch-indenpendent and safe-to-use type....

August 12, 2025 · 1 min · 178 words · Me

LKML News v6.17-rc1

[PATCH v1 0/2] mm/damon: Add damos_stat support for vaddr PanJason https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1753794408.git.pyyjason@gmail.com Pan posted a patch series letting virtual address space monitoring operations of DAMON to support DAMOS_STAT with hugepage_size filter. [RFC PATCH v4 0/4] mm, bpf: BPF based THP order selection (Yafang Shao) https://lore.kernel.org/20250729091807.84310-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com Yafang posted the fourth veersion of bpf-based THP order selection patch series. [Linux Memory Hotness and Promotion] Notes from July 17, 2025 (David Rientjes) https://lore.kernel.org/c2f5a8d7-061b-7649-2b9d-03e6314d1102@google.com David shares a note from the last Linux Memory Hotness and Promotion call....

July 29, 2025 · 2 min · 312 words · Me

LKML News v6.16

[PATCH POC] prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to optionally exclude VM_HUGEPAGE (David Hildenbrand) https://lore.kernel.org/20250721090942.274650-1-david@redhat.com David posted a patch for extending prctl() for more fine-tuned control of THP behaviors per processes with their childs. [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE (Lorenzo Stoakes) https://lore.kernel.org/20250723095823.21940-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Lorenzo posted a patch for further making MM sections on MAINTAINERS file be well organized. [RFC][PATCH v2 00/29] introduce kmemdump (Eugen Hristev) https://lore....

July 22, 2025 · 1 min · 127 words · Me

LKML News v6.16-rc7

[PATCH v9 00/14] khugepaged: mTHP support (Nico Pache) https://lore.kernel.org/20250714003207.113275-1-npache@redhat.com Nico posted ninth version of the patch series for adding mTHP support on khugepaged. [PATCH v7 0/7] use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads (Suren Baghadasaryan) https://lore.kernel.org/20250716030557.1547501-1-surenb@google.com Suren posted the seventh version of the patch series making reading of /proc/pid/maps with only per-vma locks. [PATCH v5 00/15] kunit: Introduce UAPI testing framework (Thomas Weißschuh) https://lore.kernel.org/20250717-kunit-kselftests-v5-0-442b711cde2e@linutronix.de Thomas posted fifth version of his patch series for unifying kunit and kselftest....

July 15, 2025 · 1 min · 101 words · Me