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[PATCH v3] mm: Add CONFIG_PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER to select page block order (Juan Yescas) https://lore.kernel.org/20250506002319.513795-1-jyescas@google.com As a followup of the LSFMMBPF discussion, Juan posted a patch for the CMA alignment requirements issue on large page size configuration. [RFC PATCH 0/9] Intel RAR TLB invalidation (Rik van Riel) https://lore.kernel.org/20250506003811.92405-1-riel@surriel.com Rick posted an RFC patch series for reducing IPI for TLB invaludations on Intel machines using its RAR feature. [PATCH 0/1] prctl: allow overriding system THP policy to always (Usama Arif) https://lore....

Linux 6.15-rc5 (Linus Torvalds) https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wgjwfsyPf3SfjrPhAMJqN6brBpajQ3F9qp_TatwOs56YQ@mail.gmail.com Linus released the fifth candidate for Linux 6.15. It is larger than the usual, but still in normal range. The big size was mainly due to selftest changes.

[PATCH V4 0/4] add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen (Zhongkun He) https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1745225696.git.hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com Zhongkun posted a patch series for fine tuning memory.reclaim and lru_gen for reclaiminig only anonymous pages. [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add core mm section (Lorenzo Stoakes) https://lore.kernel.org/20250423123042.59082-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Lorenzo posted a patch for splitting MM section on MAINTAINER further, for the core part. [PATCH v3] tools/mm: Add script to display page state for a given PID and VADDR (Ye Liu) https://lore....

[PATCH] tools/drgn: Add script to display page state for a given PID and VADDR (Ye Liu) https://lore.kernel.org/20250415075024.248232-1-ye.liu@linux.dev Ye Liu introduces a drgn script for showing page information for specific virtual address range. [RFC PATCH v4 0/6] Promotion of Unmapped Page Cache Folios. (Gregory Price) https://lore.kernel.org/20250411221111.493193-1-gourry@gourry.net Gregory continues his unmapped page cache folios promotion work and sent the fourth version. [PATCH v2 0/2] separate out mmap_lock/VMA locking and update MAINTAINERS (Lorenzo Stoakes) https://lore....

[PATCH v2 0/3] Implement numa node notifier (Oscar Salvador) https://lore.kernel.org/20250408084153.255762-1-osalvador@suse.de Oscar found 5/10 memory notifier users are actually interested in only NUMA level change, and proposes numa node notifier. [RFC PATCH v2] Introduce Hierarchical Per-CPU Counters (Mathiew Desnoyers) https://lore.kernel.org/20250408160508.991738-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Mathiew proposes a hierarchical per-cpu counter that can provide better scalability on multi CPU machines. [RFC PATCH 00/14] Virtual Swap Space (Nhat Pham) https://lore.kernel.org/20250407234223.1059191-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Nhat proposes virtual swap space, which was also presented at LSFMMBPF a few weeks ago....