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[PATCH v5 0/4] mm/ksm: Add ksm advisor (Stefan Roesch) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218231054.1625219-1-shr@devkernel.io Stefan posted the fifth version of the patchset for automatic and efficient tuning of kernel samepage merging. [PATCH -next v4 0/2] Make memory reclamation measurable (Bixuan Cui) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231220012123.2787-1-cuibixuan@vivo.com This patchset adds a new tracer to shrink_active_list(), shrink_inactive_list(), and shrinker->count_objects() to make memory recycling mesaurable with bpf. [RFC PATCH 1/1] mm: mark folio accessed in minor fault (Zhaoyang Huang) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231220102948.1963798-1-zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com Inactive mapped folio is promoted to active only when it is scanned in shrink_inactive_list()....

[Invitation] Linux MM Alignment Session on remap_file_pages on Wednesday (David Rientjes) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/46f97bec-3a48-e714-0a8d-b5206e1704ba@google.com There will be the last Linux MM Alignment Session for re-introducing remap_file_pages(), led by Matthew Wilcox, on 2023-11-13. [PATCH] kernel: Introduce a write lock/unlock wrapper for tasklist_lock (Maria Yu) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231213101745.4526-1-quic_aiquny@quicinc.com There are multiple scenarios for tasklist_lock that could lead to bad responsiveness. To mitigate the situation, this patch introduces a write lock/unlock wrapper for tasklist_lock. [PATCH 0/9] Finish two folio conversions (Matthew Wilcox) https://lkml....

[PATCH] mm/thp: add CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_NEVER option (Dmytro Maluka) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231204163254.2636289-1-dmaluka@chromium.org Khugepaged has its own memory cost, and it increases vm.min_free_kbytes as it needs when it starts. On 4GB RAM, 3 mmzones and pageblock_order == MAX_ORDER, khugepaged increases vm.min_free_kbytes from 8MB to 132MB. This patch introduces a config to disallow khugepaged starts by default. It still allows the userspace to start khugepaged, though. [PATCH v4 0/2] KSM: support smart-scan feature (Stefan Roesch) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231205180952.3843711-1-shr@devkernel.io...

[PATCH v2] prctl: Get private anonymous memory region name (Rong Tao) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/tencent_77E0BC1E8E9A21CA1B9009DD66555C72A90A@qq.com Now prctl() can set the name of anonymous vmas, but there is no option for getting the name. This patch implements the getter feature. [RFC PATCH 0/6] Supporting GMEM (generalized memory management) for external memory devices (Weixi Zhu) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231128125025.4449-1-weixi.zhu@huawei.com Because Linux kernels’ memory management system is mainly for only host DRAM, accelerator driver developers need to invent their own external memory management subsystems that feature similar functionality....

[PATCH v6 0/4] page_owner: print stacks and their counter (Oscar Salvador) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231120084300.4368-1-osalvador@suse.de This patchset introduces a new read-only file page_owner_stacks. This can be useful for getting the relationship between stacks and allocation/free without fiddling with pages. [PATCH v3 0/8] riscv: ASID-related and UP-related TLB flush enhancements (Samuel Holland) https://lkml.kerenl.org/r/20231122010815.3545294-1-samuel.holland@sifive.com A patchset for improving some TLB flush inefficiencies in risc-v. [RFC] mm: Multi-gen LRU: fix use of mm/page_idle/bitmap (Henry Huang) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1700719508.git.henry.hj@antgroup.com...