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[PATCH v2] mm: anonymous shared memory naming (Pasha Tatashin) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221107184715.3950621-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Second version of the patch for allowing shared anonymous memory mapping naming has posted. Deprecating and removing SLOB (Vlastimil Babka) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b35c3f82-f67b-2103-7d82-7a7ba7521439@suse.cz Vlastimil is describing his proposal for removing SLOB, mainly for the code maintenance overhead, and trying to continue discussions for that. [PATCH 1/4] mm: introduce ’encoded’ page pointers with embedded extra bits (Linus Torvalds) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221109203051.1835763-1-torvalds@linux-foundation.org Linus Torvalds has posted a patchset for a new type called struct encoded_page, which is for struct page pointers having extra flags in it....

[PATCH -next] mm/page_reporting: change page_reporting_param_ops to static (Yang Yingliang) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221101070022.1930028-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com This patch makes page_reporting_param_ops static, as it’s used in only the c file. [RFC PATCH] mm: introduce accounting of page_owner via backtrace (Zhoyang Huang) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1667390781-17515-1-git-send-email-zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com This RFC patchset accounts and sorts page_owner output via its backtrace for simplifying it. [PATCH v6 0/5] THP Shrinker (Alexander Zhu) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1667454613.git.alexlzhu@fb.com The patchset for THP shrinking, which aims to reduce memory waste due to the THP underutilization, has revised again to the sixth version....

[PATCH] swap: add a limit for readahead page-cluster value (Kairu Song) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221023162533.81561-1-ryncsn@gmail.com /proc/sys/vm/page-cluster could overflow because it has no upper limit. This patch set its upper-limit as 2**31, so that at most 2**31 pages could be read in at once. [PATCH 0/1] Dead stores in maple-tree (Lukas Bulwahn) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221026120029.12555-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com This patch fixes some dead stores of maple tree that reported by clang analyzer. [PATCH v6 00/21] TDX host kernel support (Kai Huang) https://lkml....

[RFC PATCH] mm: Introduce new MADV_NOMOVABLE behavior (Baolin Wang) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/bc27af32b0418ed1138a1c3a41e46f54559025a5.1665991453.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com This RFC patch introduces a new madvise() hint called MADV_NOMOVABLE for long-term pinning of memory. [PATCH 0/4] Add MADV_COLLAPSE documentation (Zach O’Keefe) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221017175523.2048887-1-zokeefe@google.com This patchset adds documentation of MADV_COLLAPSE, which is a new madvise() hint that merged in v6.1. [PATCH v4 0/3] THP Shrinker (Alexander Zhu) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1666150565.git.alexlzhu@fb.com Alexander posted the fourth version of THP shrinker, which aims to reduce the THP memory inefficiency due to the THP internal fragmentation....

Today is the 10th anniversary of my Linux kernel contribution. Including the tiny and trivial patch, I made 381 patches merged in the mainline during the 10 years. $ git log --author SeongJae --reverse commit cf174b0ef52ad8184779e1da4132e2d9d17247e5 Author: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Date: Tue Oct 16 16:47:50 2012 +0900 staging: csr: csr_framework_ext_types.h: fix coding style Fix coding style of csr_framework_ext_types.h Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> [...] $ git log --author SeongJae --oneline | wc -l 381 I’m looking forward to the next 10 years....