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Today is the 10th anniversary of my Linux kernel contribution. Including the tiny and trivial patch, I made 381 patches merged in the mainline during the 10 years. $ git log --author SeongJae --reverse commit cf174b0ef52ad8184779e1da4132e2d9d17247e5 Author: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Date: Tue Oct 16 16:47:50 2012 +0900 staging: csr: csr_framework_ext_types.h: fix coding style Fix coding style of csr_framework_ext_types.h Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> [...] $ git log --author SeongJae --oneline | wc -l 381 I’m looking forward to the next 10 years....

[RFC UKL 00/10] Unikernel Linux (UKL) (Ali Raza) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221003222133.20948-1-aliraza@bu.edu This RFC patchset introduces a research project called Unikernel Linux which integrates application specific optimization to the Linux kernel. It links an application directly with kernel and runs it in the supervisor mode. [PATCH v6] mm: add zblock - new allocator for use via zpool API (Ananda) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221005053302.30387-1-a.badmaev@clicknet.pro This patchset introduces a new allocator for zpool API. The author says it is better than zsmalloc in terms of worst execution time and therefore good at real-time usage....

[GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.0[-rc8] (Andrew Morton) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220926123721.2a1edc734b4fc516a9a350b8@linux-foundation.org Andrew’s mm hotfix patches pull request for Linux v6.0, or v6.0-rc8 has posted. [RFC PATCH] mm: sort kmemleak object via backtrace (Zhaoyang Huang) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1664264570-3716-1-git-send-email-zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com This RFC patch introduces a set of method to sort objects in kmemleak output by backtrace to make the report more easy to read. [PATCH 0/3] THP Shrinker (Alexander Zhu) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1664347167.git.alexlzhu@fb.com This patchset introduces a sysfs files for measuring THP utilization and a shrinker for splitting the under-utilized THPs....

[RFC PATCH] mm: track bad page via kmemleak (Zhaoyang Huang) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1663679468-16757-1-git-send-email-zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com This RFC patch makes bad pages to be tracked via kmemleak. [PATCH v1 0/3] coding-style.rst: document BUG() and WARN() rules (David Hildenbrand) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220920122302.99195-1-david@redhat.com There was a recent discussion on when to use BUG() and WARN() and the variants. This patch tries to make it clearly described in coding-style doc and checkpatch script. [RFC 0/6] migrate_pages(): batch TLB flushing (Huang Ying) https://lkml....

[PATCH mm-unstable v15 00/14] Multi-Gen LRU Framework (Yu Zhao) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-1-yuzhao@google.com A new version of MGLRU patchset has posted. Among the changes in this new version, fix of long-tailed direct reclaim latency looks interesting. Linux 6.0-rc6 (Linus Torvalds) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wi=gtuSO8Yz8LDubkMk7TiMsZxpypt9S10jeZRkyaBFnA@mail.gmail.com The sixth release candidate for Linux v6.0 has out. Maybe due to the LPC/OSS EU/Maintainers summit which all were held in last week, this release is quite small. Torvalds says it might mean that seventh release will be bigger than usual and therefore it might need one more week for v6....