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

LKML News v6.16-rc6

Linux 6.16-rc6 (Linus Torvalds) https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wgMZkz3O5d3aHvbw3uN9JyF1Lt1xrpTYdEuZmU7aUYJ3w@mail.gmail.com Linus released the sixth candidate of Linux v6.16. Linus mentions there was an issue that made him scared, but it turned out it was a simple issue. Release of v6.16 is back on the track.

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 40 words · Me

LKML News v6.16-rc5

[PATCH v1 00/29] mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1) (David Hildenbrand) David prepares the future that struct page and struct folio be decoupled and hence movable_ops page became no folio. [PATCH v8 00/15] khugepaged: mTHP support (Nico Pache) https://lore.kernel.org/20250702055742.102808-1-npache@redhat.com Nico Pache sent the eighth versin of his patch series for mTHP support on khugepaged. [RFC PATCH v3 00/13] mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in migrate_{hot,cold} actions (Bijan Tabatabai) https://lore.kernel.org/20250702201337.5780-1-bijan311@gmail.com Bijan posted third RFC version of DAMOS-based memory interleaving patch series....

July 1, 2025 · 1 min · 99 words · Me

LKML News v6.16-rc4

[PATCH 0/3] mm: introduce snapshot_page() (Luiz Capitulino) https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1750961812.git.luizcap@redhat.com Luiz introduces a helper functions for creating a snapshot of a page and its folio. [PATCH v4 0/2] fix MADV_COLLAPSE issue if THP settings are disabled (Baolin Wang) https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1750815384.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Baolin posted a patch series for making THP never means never. Linux 6.16-rc4 (Linus Torvalds) https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wjqJeFHs_CsO2MeFLi-qceFM7_dVfKBMH4B7oVJaH6tHQ@mail.gmail.com Linus released the fourth candidate for Linux 6.16. Linus mentions things look fairly normal despite of the large merge window....

June 27, 2025 · 1 min · 73 words · Me

LKML News v6.16-rc3

[RFC 0/3] mm: introduce snapshot_page() (Luiz Capitulino) https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1750170418.git.luizcap@redhat.com Luiz posted an RFC patch series for introducing a helper function for showing consistent view of a folio, and using it from kpagecount and stable_page_flags(). [RFC PATCH v1 0/4] Kernel thread based async batch migration (Bharata B Rao) https://lore.kernel.org/20250616133931.206626-1-bharata@amd.com Bharata posted an RFC patch series for doing pages migration in an asynchronous and batched way. [Linux Memory Hotness and Promotion] Notes from June 5, 2025 (David Rientjes) https://lore....

June 17, 2025 · 1 min · 145 words · Me