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[PATCH RFC] mm: madvise: use per_vma lock for MADV_FREE (Barry Song) https://lore.kernel.org/20250610055920.21323-1-21cnbao@gmail.com Barry posted ano ther RFC for using per-vma lock for MADV_FREE. [Invitation] Linux MM Alignment Session on SLUB Sheaves counters on Wednesday (David Rientjes) https://lore.kernel.org/7e833009-9eb7-cfbd-ee94-590035da84c0@google.com David announces next Linux MM alignment session for SLUB sheaves, which will be led by Vlastimil Babka. [RFC PATCH 0/4] mm/damon: Add DAMOS action to interleave data across nodes (Bijan Tabatabai) https://lore.kernel.org/20250612181330.31236-1-bijan311@gmail.com Bijan posted a patch series for utilizing DAMON to do dynamic memory interleaving....

[PATCH RFC] mm: use per_vma lock for MADV_DONTNEED (Barry Song) https://lore.kernel.org/20250527044145.13153-1-21cnbao@gmail.com Barry posted an RFC to make MADV_DONTNEED madvise() calls to use per-vma lock when the region is in a signle vma. [PATCH v4] tools/mm: Add script to display page state for a given PID and VADDR (Ye Liu) https://lore.kernel.org/20250528091543.355386-1-ye.liu@linux.dev Ye posted fourth version of a patch for drgn script that shows detailed information of page for a given virtual address....

DAMON talk for Kernel Recipes 2025 has been scheduled. The title of the talk is “Overcoming Observer Effects in Memory Management with DAMON”. It will introduce DAMON at whole for wider audience.

[RFC PATCH v2 0/5] mm, bpf: BPF based THP adjustment (Yafang Shao) https://lore.kernel.org/20250520060504.20251-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com Yafang posted the second version of BPF-based THP policy adjustment patch series. [RFC PATCH 0/5] add process_madvise() flags to modify behaviour (Lorenzo Stoakes) https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1747686021.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Lorenzo posted an RFC series for extending process_madvise() behavior using its flags option. [RFC v2 PATCH 0/9] Intel RAR TLB invalidation (Rik van Riel) https://lore.kernel.org/20250520010350.1740223-1-riel@surriel.com Rik posted the second version of his RFC patch series for Intel’s h/w-based tlb invalidation optimization....

Linux 6.15-rc7 (Linus Torvalds) https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=whtwpdL9e_5j1oq8C=1EZud_cXerZeHqe5L8y7wG+34EA@mail.gmail.com Linus Torvalds released the seventh candidate version for Linux 6.15. Linus mentions last week was having some exciting events including CPU bug mitigations, Xe fixes and sched_ext fixes. Which is not what Linus wanted. But still he beleives those were reasonable and solid in whole. Still he aims to release 6.15 next week, unless something strange happens.