Linus 6.13-rc5 (Linus Torvalds) https://lore.kernel.org/<CAHk-=wh=sk+uzFj5edCwdSmUuhfe40mH+G04XQXZtzbx_XBnvQ@mail.gmail.com After yet another calm week of holidays, Linus released the fifth candidate for Linux 6.13. It it again a tiny one, having less than a hundred non-merge commits.
[RFC PATCH 00/12] khugepaged: Asynchronous mTHP collapse (Dev Jain) https://lore.kernel.org/20241216165105.56185-1-dev.jain@arm.com Dev Jain posted an RFC patch series that makes khugepaged collapses multi-sized THP. [PATCH] mm/page_idle: Constify ‘struct bin_attribute’ (Thomas Weißschuh) https://lore.kernel.org/20241216-sysfs-const-bin_attr-page_idle-v1-1-cc01ecc55196@weissschuh.net Thomas marks struct bin_attribute objects that used in page_idle to be marked as const, since it is now supported. Slow-tier Page Promotion discussion recap and open questions (David Rientjes) https://lore.kernel.org/6d582bb6-3ba5-1768-92f2-6025340a3cd4@google.com David shares his summary of the discussions around asynchronous page promotion approach from AMD that was held on last MM alignment session....
I will present DAMON in FOSDEM'25. The title of the talk is “DAMON: Kernel Subsystem for Data Access Monitoring and Access-aware System Operations”.
[Invitation] Linux MM Alignment Session on Slow-tier Page Promotion on Wednesday (David Rientjes) https://lore.kernel.org/52a4867a-f330-4d3f-2da8-0919bc49c6ea@google.com David Rientjes invites MM people to the next alignment session. The topic is slow-tier page promotion, led by RaghavendraKT from AMD. They have RFC, too: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20241201153818.2633616-1-raghavendra.kt@amd.com/T/#t [PATCH mm-unstable 00/17] mm: Introduce arch_mmap_hint() (Kalesh Singh) https://lore.kernel.org/20241210024119.2488608-1-kaleshsingh@google.com Kalesh posted a patch that introducing per-architecture mmap_hint() implementation and fixing the mmap hint being ignored due to THP in some cases....
[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: group all VMA-related files into the VMA section (Lorenzo Stoakes) https://lore.kernel.org/20241206191600.45119-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Lorenzo posted a patch adding more source files for VMA section of MAINTAINERS file, to avoid people sending patches without Cc-ing VMA maintainers. Linux 6.13-rc2 (Linus Torvalds) https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wgDe9JfGynY9KQ1exkL0DM-cyLYdeYdOxbCXNHm=qAgSQ@mail.gmail.com Linus released the second candidate of Linux v6.13. Some autoamted cleanup changes made the diff bit noisy, and there are some real fixes for drivers, networking and bpf.