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[PATCH v5 0/7] Add support for memmap on memory feature on ppc64 (Aneesh Kumar K.V) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230725100212.531277-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Aneesh continues adding support of memmap_on_memory for more architectures. [PATCH mm-unstable v7 00/31] Split ptdesc from struct page (Vishal Moola) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230725042051.36691-1-vishal.moola@gmail.com The seventh revision of the patchset for splitting page table tracking information out of struct page for making it smaller. [PATCH v3 00/49] use refcount+RCU method to implement lockless slab shrink (Qi Zheng) https://lkml....

[PATCH v4 0/6] Add support for memmap on memory feature on ppc64 (Aneesh Kumar K.V) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230718024409.95742-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com The fourth version of the patchset for support of memmap on memory on ppc64 has posted. [GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.5-rc2 (Andrew Morton) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230718123131.5ec065527c2127a568e5754c@linux-foundation.org Andrew sent mm subsystem hotfixes for 6.5 rc2 to Linus. [PATCH v2 0/5] Invalidate secondary IOMMU TLB on permission upgrade (Alistair Popple) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.de78568883814904b78add6317c263bf5bc20234.1689768831.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com This patch moves secondary TLB invcalidation mmu notifier callbacks to architecture specific TLB flushing functions....

[Invitation] Linux MM Alignment Session on mshare on Wednesday (David Rientjes) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAE-26VAZZ+buEX0wbqHTz0k1hshYzYP3KzMmXT6jc6=NucPa0Q@mail.gmail.com David from Google is hosting yet another Linux MM Alignment session on Wednesday. The topic of this week is the process page table sharing, which could be a clear efficiency win for situations where huge number of processes sharing same pages. [PATCH v3 0/7] Add support for memmap on memory feature on ppc64 (Aneesh Kumar K.V) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230711044834.72809-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com This makes the memmap on memory feature more useful for ppc64-like architectures having alignment rules that different with 64K page size....

[GIT PULL] MM updates for 6.5-rc1 (Andrew Morton) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230626085035.e66992e96b4c6d37dad54bd9@linux-foundation.org Andrew Morton sent the memory management subsystem pull request for v6.5-rc1. Among the change, cachestata() syscall and Mel Gorman’s compaction optimization looks interesting to me. [GIT PULL] slab updates for 6.5 (Vlastimil Babka) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1c39c9b0-ec37-f910-2b09-cedf7acf6e91@suse.cz Vlastimil sent the slab pull request for v6.5 to Linus Torvalds. This contains the SLAB config deprecation renaming (s/CONFIG_SLAB/CONFIG_SLAB_DEPRECATED/). [PATCH v1 0/5] mm/memory_hotplug: make offline_and_remove_memory() timeout instead of failing on fatal signals (David Hildenbrand) https://lkml....

[PATCH] mm/memory_hotplug.c: don’t fail hot unplug quite so eagerly (John Hubbard) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230620011719.155379-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com Some device drivers add and remove memory to the system via memory hot [un]plog. Nevertheless, the ungplugging could fail easily, especially for the pending signal on the process. This patch simply remove the signal check error. [PATCH v2] mm/min_free_kbytes: modify min_free_kbytes calculation rules (liuq) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230621073912.21747-1-liuq131@chinatelecom.cn This patch adjusts min_free_kbytes calculation so that ZONE_NORMAL is unnecessarily be too small when ZONE_MOVABLE exists....