[PATCH RFC] mm: use per_vma lock for MADV_DONTNEED (Barry Song) https://lore.kernel.org/20250527044145.13153-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Barry posted an RFC to make MADV_DONTNEED madvise() calls to use per-vma lock when the region is in a signle vma.
[PATCH v4] tools/mm: Add script to display page state for a given PID and VADDR (Ye Liu) https://lore.kernel.org/20250528091543.355386-1-ye.liu@linux.dev
Ye posted fourth version of a patch for drgn script that shows detailed information of page for a given virtual address.
DAMON talk for Kernel Recipes 2025 has been scheduled. The title of the talk is “Overcoming Observer Effects in Memory Management with DAMON”. It will introduce DAMON at whole for wider audience.
[RFC PATCH v2 0/5] mm, bpf: BPF based THP adjustment (Yafang Shao) https://lore.kernel.org/20250520060504.20251-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Yafang posted the second version of BPF-based THP policy adjustment patch series.
[RFC PATCH 0/5] add process_madvise() flags to modify behaviour (Lorenzo Stoakes) https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1747686021.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Lorenzo posted an RFC series for extending process_madvise() behavior using its flags option.
[RFC v2 PATCH 0/9] Intel RAR TLB invalidation (Rik van Riel) https://lore.kernel.org/20250520010350.1740223-1-riel@surriel.com
Rik posted the second version of his RFC patch series for Intel’s h/w-based tlb invalidation optimization.
Linux 6.15-rc7 (Linus Torvalds) https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=whtwpdL9e_5j1oq8C=1EZud_cXerZeHqe5L8y7wG+34EA@mail.gmail.com
Linus Torvalds released the seventh candidate version for Linux 6.15. Linus mentions last week was having some exciting events including CPU bug mitigations, Xe fixes and sched_ext fixes. Which is not what Linus wanted. But still he beleives those were reasonable and solid in whole. Still he aims to release 6.15 next week, unless something strange happens.
[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.
DAMON talk for OSSummit North America 2025 has been accepted and scheduled. The title of the talk is “Self-Driving DAMON/S: Controlled and Automated Access-aware Efficient Systems”. It will present DAMON’s two auto-tuning features for access monitoring and access-aware system operations.