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[PATCH v1 0/2] mm/damon: Add damos_stat support for vaddr PanJason https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1753794408.git.pyyjason@gmail.com Pan posted a patch series letting virtual address space monitoring operations of DAMON to support DAMOS_STAT with hugepage_size filter. [RFC PATCH v4 0/4] mm, bpf: BPF based THP order selection (Yafang Shao) https://lore.kernel.org/20250729091807.84310-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com Yafang posted the fourth veersion of bpf-based THP order selection patch series. [Linux Memory Hotness and Promotion] Notes from July 17, 2025 (David Rientjes) https://lore.kernel.org/c2f5a8d7-061b-7649-2b9d-03e6314d1102@google.com David shares a note from the last Linux Memory Hotness and Promotion call.

[PATCH POC] prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to optionally exclude VM_HUGEPAGE (David Hildenbrand) https://lore.kernel.org/20250721090942.274650-1-david@redhat.com David posted a patch for extending prctl() for more fine-tuned control of THP behaviors per processes with their childs. [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE (Lorenzo Stoakes) https://lore.kernel.org/20250723095823.21940-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Lorenzo posted a patch for further making MM sections on MAINTAINERS file be well organized. [RFC][PATCH v2 00/29] introduce kmemdump (Eugen Hristev) https://lore.

[PATCH v9 00/14] khugepaged: mTHP support (Nico Pache) https://lore.kernel.org/20250714003207.113275-1-npache@redhat.com Nico posted ninth version of the patch series for adding mTHP support on khugepaged. [PATCH v7 0/7] use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads (Suren Baghadasaryan) https://lore.kernel.org/20250716030557.1547501-1-surenb@google.com Suren posted the seventh version of the patch series making reading of /proc/pid/maps with only per-vma locks. [PATCH v5 00/15] kunit: Introduce UAPI testing framework (Thomas Weißschuh) https://lore.kernel.org/20250717-kunit-kselftests-v5-0-442b711cde2e@linutronix.de Thomas posted fifth version of his patch series for unifying kunit and kselftest.

Linux 6.16-rc6 (Linus Torvalds) https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wgMZkz3O5d3aHvbw3uN9JyF1Lt1xrpTYdEuZmU7aUYJ3w@mail.gmail.com Linus released the sixth candidate of Linux v6.16. Linus mentions there was an issue that made him scared, but it turned out it was a simple issue. Release of v6.16 is back on the track.

[PATCH v1 00/29] mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1) (David Hildenbrand) David prepares the future that struct page and struct folio be decoupled and hence movable_ops page became no folio. [PATCH v8 00/15] khugepaged: mTHP support (Nico Pache) https://lore.kernel.org/20250702055742.102808-1-npache@redhat.com Nico Pache sent the eighth versin of his patch series for mTHP support on khugepaged. [RFC PATCH v3 00/13] mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in migrate_{hot,cold} actions (Bijan Tabatabai) https://lore.kernel.org/20250702201337.5780-1-bijan311@gmail.com Bijan posted third RFC version of DAMOS-based memory interleaving patch series.

[PATCH 0/3] mm: introduce snapshot_page() (Luiz Capitulino) https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1750961812.git.luizcap@redhat.com Luiz introduces a helper functions for creating a snapshot of a page and its folio. [PATCH v4 0/2] fix MADV_COLLAPSE issue if THP settings are disabled (Baolin Wang) https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1750815384.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Baolin posted a patch series for making THP never means never. Linux 6.16-rc4 (Linus Torvalds) https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wjqJeFHs_CsO2MeFLi-qceFM7_dVfKBMH4B7oVJaH6tHQ@mail.gmail.com Linus released the fourth candidate for Linux 6.16. Linus mentions things look fairly normal despite of the large merge window.

[RFC 0/3] mm: introduce snapshot_page() (Luiz Capitulino) https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1750170418.git.luizcap@redhat.com Luiz posted an RFC patch series for introducing a helper function for showing consistent view of a folio, and using it from kpagecount and stable_page_flags(). [RFC PATCH v1 0/4] Kernel thread based async batch migration (Bharata B Rao) https://lore.kernel.org/20250616133931.206626-1-bharata@amd.com Bharata posted an RFC patch series for doing pages migration in an asynchronous and batched way. [Linux Memory Hotness and Promotion] Notes from June 5, 2025 (David Rientjes) https://lore.

[PATCH RFC] mm: madvise: use per_vma lock for MADV_FREE (Barry Song) https://lore.kernel.org/20250610055920.21323-1-21cnbao@gmail.com Barry posted ano ther RFC for using per-vma lock for MADV_FREE. [Invitation] Linux MM Alignment Session on SLUB Sheaves counters on Wednesday (David Rientjes) https://lore.kernel.org/7e833009-9eb7-cfbd-ee94-590035da84c0@google.com David announces next Linux MM alignment session for SLUB sheaves, which will be led by Vlastimil Babka. [RFC PATCH 0/4] mm/damon: Add DAMOS action to interleave data across nodes (Bijan Tabatabai) https://lore.kernel.org/20250612181330.31236-1-bijan311@gmail.com Bijan posted a patch series for utilizing DAMON to do dynamic memory interleaving.

[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.

[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.