LKML News v6.14-rc6

[PATCH v15 0/9] Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap (Alice Ryhl) https://lore.kernel.org/20250304-vma-v15-0-5c641b31980a@google.com Alice Ryhl posted the fiftennth version of Rust binding for major mm API. [RFC PATCH 0/4] Kernel daemon for detecting and promoting hot pages (Bharata B Rao) https://lore.kernel.org/20250306054532.221138-1-bharata@amd.com Bharata posted an RFC patch set for igniting discussion about one source that provides page access information with an example. The patch uses AMD IBS driver as the source....

March 4, 2025 · 1 min · 128 words · Me

LKML News v6.14-rc5

[RFC PATCH 0/3] sched/numa: Introduce per cgroup numa balance control (Chen Yu) https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1740483690.git.yu.c.chen@intel.com Chen posted an RFC for cgroup based numa balancing control, following recent approach from Kaiyang Zhao. [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] SLUB allocator, mainly the sheaves caching layer (Vlastimil Babka) https://lore.kernel.org/14422cf1-4a63-4115-87cb-92685e7dd91b@suse.cz Vlastimil proposes an LSFMMBPF topic for his SLUB sheaves patch series. [RFC PATCH 0/2] SKSM: Synchronous Kernel Samepage Merging (Mathieu Desnoyers) https://lore.kernel.org/20250228023043.83726-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Matthieu proposes a variant of KSM that works in synchronous manner, unlike KSM....

February 25, 2025 · 1 min · 93 words · Me

LKML News v6.14-rc4

[Hypervisor Live Update] Notes from February 10, 2025 (David Rientjes) https://lore.kernel.org/dc1ee0c3-d3e7-4284-6329-346b8cea68b5@google.com David shares hypervisor live update meeting summary. [GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.14-rc4 (Andrew Morton) https://lore.kernel.org/20250219175311.7a5b47084de5ad0258526be2@linux-foundation.org Andrew posted mm hotfixes for 6.14-rc4 to Linus Torvalds. Rust kernel policy (Miguel Ojeda) https://lore.kernel.org/CANiq72m-R0tOakf=j7BZ78jDHdy=9-fvZbAT8j91Je2Bxy0sFg@mail.gmail.com Miguel posted a mail about his blog post for the policy around Rust for Linux kernel. Long discussion is following. [PATCH 0/2] Add a command line option that enables control of how many threads per NUMA node should be used to allocate huge pages....

February 19, 2025 · 1 min · 154 words · Me

LKML News v6.14-rc3

[PATCH v10 00/12] AMD broadcast TLB invalidation (Rik van Riel) https://lore.kernel.org/20250211210823.242681-1-riel@surriel.com Rik posted the tenth versin of the TLB invalication broadcasting patch series for AMD. [PATCH v14 0/8] Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap (Alice Ryhl) https://lore.kernel.org/20250213-vma-v14-0-b29c47ab21f5@google.com Alice posted 14th version of the patch series for adding Rust support to mm_struct, vm_rea_struct and mmap. [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Rust in FS, Storage, MM (Andreas Mindborg) https://lore.kernel.org/87ldu9uiyo.fsf@kernel.org Andreas proposes an LSFMMBPF topic for discussing status and experience of Rust adoption for the subsystems....

February 11, 2025 · 1 min · 109 words · Me

LKML News v6.14-rc2

[LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Integrate Swap Cache, Swap Maps with Swap Allocator (Kairui Song) https://lore.kernel.org/CAMgjq7BvQ0ZXvyLGp2YP96+i+6COCBBJCYmjXHGBnfisCAb8VA@mail.gmail.com Kairui proposes yet another LSFMMBPF topic for redesigning and integrating multiple swap data into the swap allocator. [PATCH v4 00/14] kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO) (Mike Rapoport) https://lore.kernel.org/20250206132754.2596694-1-rppt@kernel.org Mike posted the fourth version of the kexec handover patch series. Linux 6.14-rc2 (Linus Torvalds) https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wiGR6aB2oE7VsDkpnSbHaUnxVqtMvcEB0JzdvS-YmT_Lg@mail.gmail.com Linus Torvalds released the second candidate of Linux 6.14. It is a small rc2 following the small rc1 pattern....

February 4, 2025 · 1 min · 76 words · Me