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.
[GIT PULL] MM updates for 6.15-rc1 (Andrew Morton) https://lore.kernel.org/20250330165732.f4c1493615375623f67e38eb@linux-foundation.org
Andrew Morton sent MM pull requests for 6.15-rc1 to Linus Torvalds.
mm.git grew a branch (Andrew Morton) https://lore.kernel.org/20250401030418.6b9e3b048eacc05d1cdeeffd@linux-foundation.org
Andrew announces a new branch on mm.git, called mm-new. He explains what it will be, and asks Stephen to continue adding mm-unstable to next while not adding mm-new.
[PATCH 0/2] Implement numa node notifier (Oscar Salvador) https://lore.kernel.org/20250401092716.537512-1-osalvador@suse.de
Oscar posted a patchset for extending memory notifier for only NUMA state changes.
I will present and discuss about the current status and future plans of DAMON, and any requirements to DAMON for more access-aware memory management kernel subsystem of future in Linux Storage/File System/Memory Management/BPF (LSFMM+BPF) 2025. The title of the talks are “DAMON Updates and Plans: Monitoring Parameters Auot-tuning and Memory Tiering” and “DAMON Requirements for Access-aware MM of Future”, respectively.
Detailed schedules can be found from the below Google doc spreadsheet.
[RFC v1 0/3] Live Update Orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin) https://lore.kernel.org/20250320024011.2995837-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Pasha posted an RFC patch series for Linux kernel live update that uses kexec hand over as a way to preserve memory state from old kernel.
[GIT PULL] slab updates for 6.15 (Vlastimil Babka) https://lore.kernel.org/2f7985a8-0460-42de-9af0-4f966b937695@suse.cz
Vlastimil posted Slab pull request for Linux v6.15 to Linus.
[PATCH v5 00/16] kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO) (Changyuan Lyu) https://lore.kernel.org/20250320015551.2157511-1-changyuanl@google.com
Changyuan posted the fifth version of kexec handover patch series.