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[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.

[PATCH v2 00/11] cgroup v1 deprecation messages (Michal Kountny) https://lore.kernel.org/20250311123640.530377-1-mkoutny@suse.com Michal categorizes and wordsmith memcg deprecation warning messages. [RFC 0/5] track memory used by balloon drivers (Nico Pache) https://lore.kernel.org/20250312000700.184573-1-npache@redhat.com Nic posted an RFC patch series that adding a counter to track how many pages are reclaimed by the balloon driver. [PATCH 0/5] mm: reliable huge page allocator (Johannes Weiner) https://lore.kernel.org/20250313210647.1314586-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Johannes posted a patch series for making huge page allocatioin more reliable by making allocator, reclaim, and compaction code try harder to avoid fragmentation.

[PATCH v15 0/9] Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap (Alice Ryhl) https://lore.kernel.org/20250304-vma-v15-0-5c641b31980a@google.com Alice Ryhl posted the fiftennth version of Rust binding for major mm API. [RFC PATCH 0/4] Kernel daemon for detecting and promoting hot pages (Bharata B Rao) https://lore.kernel.org/20250306054532.221138-1-bharata@amd.com Bharata posted an RFC patch set for igniting discussion about one source that provides page access information with an example. The patch uses AMD IBS driver as the source.

[RFC PATCH 0/3] sched/numa: Introduce per cgroup numa balance control (Chen Yu) https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1740483690.git.yu.c.chen@intel.com Chen posted an RFC for cgroup based numa balancing control, following recent approach from Kaiyang Zhao. [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] SLUB allocator, mainly the sheaves caching layer (Vlastimil Babka) https://lore.kernel.org/14422cf1-4a63-4115-87cb-92685e7dd91b@suse.cz Vlastimil proposes an LSFMMBPF topic for his SLUB sheaves patch series. [RFC PATCH 0/2] SKSM: Synchronous Kernel Samepage Merging (Mathieu Desnoyers) https://lore.kernel.org/20250228023043.83726-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Matthieu proposes a variant of KSM that works in synchronous manner, unlike KSM.

[Hypervisor Live Update] Notes from February 10, 2025 (David Rientjes) https://lore.kernel.org/dc1ee0c3-d3e7-4284-6329-346b8cea68b5@google.com David shares hypervisor live update meeting summary. [GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.14-rc4 (Andrew Morton) https://lore.kernel.org/20250219175311.7a5b47084de5ad0258526be2@linux-foundation.org Andrew posted mm hotfixes for 6.14-rc4 to Linus Torvalds. Rust kernel policy (Miguel Ojeda) https://lore.kernel.org/CANiq72m-R0tOakf=j7BZ78jDHdy=9-fvZbAT8j91Je2Bxy0sFg@mail.gmail.com Miguel posted a mail about his blog post for the policy around Rust for Linux kernel. Long discussion is following. [PATCH 0/2] Add a command line option that enables control of how many threads per NUMA node should be used to allocate huge pages.

[PATCH v10 00/12] AMD broadcast TLB invalidation (Rik van Riel) https://lore.kernel.org/20250211210823.242681-1-riel@surriel.com Rik posted the tenth versin of the TLB invalication broadcasting patch series for AMD. [PATCH v14 0/8] Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap (Alice Ryhl) https://lore.kernel.org/20250213-vma-v14-0-b29c47ab21f5@google.com Alice posted 14th version of the patch series for adding Rust support to mm_struct, vm_rea_struct and mmap. [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Rust in FS, Storage, MM (Andreas Mindborg) https://lore.kernel.org/87ldu9uiyo.fsf@kernel.org Andreas proposes an LSFMMBPF topic for discussing status and experience of Rust adoption for the subsystems.

[LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Integrate Swap Cache, Swap Maps with Swap Allocator (Kairui Song) https://lore.kernel.org/CAMgjq7BvQ0ZXvyLGp2YP96+i+6COCBBJCYmjXHGBnfisCAb8VA@mail.gmail.com Kairui proposes yet another LSFMMBPF topic for redesigning and integrating multiple swap data into the swap allocator. [PATCH v4 00/14] kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO) (Mike Rapoport) https://lore.kernel.org/20250206132754.2596694-1-rppt@kernel.org Mike posted the fourth version of the kexec handover patch series. Linux 6.14-rc2 (Linus Torvalds) https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wiGR6aB2oE7VsDkpnSbHaUnxVqtMvcEB0JzdvS-YmT_Lg@mail.gmail.com Linus Torvalds released the second candidate of Linux 6.14. It is a small rc2 following the small rc1 pattern.

[PATCH] mm: Optimize TLB flushes during page reclaim (Vinay Banakar) https://lore.kernel.org/CALf+9Yc3WjbG89uRWiDC_qYshJ5z_9WCrbEJe42Vbv+gJjs26g@mail.gmail.com Vinay optimizes shrink_folio_list() to do TLB flush in batch instead of per page being reclaimed. [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Overhauling hot page detection and promotion based on PTE A bit scanning (Raghavendra K T) https://lore.kernel.org/20250123105721.424117-1-raghavendra.kt@amd.com Raghavendra proposes an LSFMMBPF topic for discussions around multiple ways to find hot pages, and possible future composition of those. [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Enhancements to Page Migration with Multi-threading and Batch Offloading to DMA (Shivank Garg) https://lore.

[LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Predictive readahead of dentries (Shyam Prasad N) https://lore.kernel.org/CANT5p=rxLH-D9qSoOWgjYeD87uahmZJMwXp8uNKW66mbv8hmDg@mail.gmail.com Shyam proposes an LSFMM topic for dentries readahead, like that of filesystems. [PATCH v9 00/17] reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount (Suren Baghdasaryan) https://lore.kernel.org/20250111042604.3230628-1-surenb@google.com Suren continues revisioning of his per-vma lock optimization, and posted the ninth version of it, with changed title. [Feedback Needed] Hypervisor live update biweekly meeting time (David Rientjes) https://lore.kernel.org/2908e4ab-abc4-ddd0-b191-fe820856cfb4@google.com David announces start of a bi-weekly syncup for hypervisor live update, which was a topic of last year’s MM alignment session, and asking feedback about the time proposal.

[PATCH] tools/mm: Introduce a tool to handle entries in allocinfo (Hao Ge) https://lore.kernel.org/20250106112103.25401-1-hao.ge@linux.dev Hao posted a patch adding a tool for handling of the kernel’s memory allocation profilier output. [Invitation] Linux MM Alignment Session on Cgroup-based THP Control on Wednesday (David Rientjes) https://lore.kernel.org/5535fc79-c566-93a0-6134-bfdf1cf5171a@google.com David invites people for next Linux MM Alignment session. The topic will be cgroup-based THP control, led by Gutierez Asier, who proposed the idea. Swap Min Odrer (Daniel Gomez) https://lore.