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[GIT PULL] MM updates for 6.5-rc1 (Andrew Morton) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230626085035.e66992e96b4c6d37dad54bd9@linux-foundation.org Andrew Morton sent the memory management subsystem pull request for v6.5-rc1. Among the change, cachestata() syscall and Mel Gorman’s compaction optimization looks interesting to me. [GIT PULL] slab updates for 6.5 (Vlastimil Babka) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1c39c9b0-ec37-f910-2b09-cedf7acf6e91@suse.cz Vlastimil sent the slab pull request for v6.5 to Linus Torvalds. This contains the SLAB config deprecation renaming (s/CONFIG_SLAB/CONFIG_SLAB_DEPRECATED/). [PATCH v1 0/5] mm/memory_hotplug: make offline_and_remove_memory() timeout instead of failing on fatal signals (David Hildenbrand) https://lkml....

[PATCH] mm/memory_hotplug.c: don’t fail hot unplug quite so eagerly (John Hubbard) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230620011719.155379-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com Some device drivers add and remove memory to the system via memory hot [un]plog. Nevertheless, the ungplugging could fail easily, especially for the pending signal on the process. This patch simply remove the signal check error. [PATCH v2] mm/min_free_kbytes: modify min_free_kbytes calculation rules (liuq) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230621073912.21747-1-liuq131@chinatelecom.cn This patch adjusts min_free_kbytes calculation so that ZONE_NORMAL is unnecessarily be too small when ZONE_MOVABLE exists....

[GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.4-rc7 (Andrew Morton) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612122712.f495e24b80f88f58557ea470@linux-foundation.org Andrew sent hot fixes pull request to Linus Torvalds. The one for DAMON is also contained. [PATCH stable 5.10 0/1] Fix memleak during hotremove memory (Ma Wupeng) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230614061900.3296725-1-mawupeng1@huawei.com Ma found a memory leak in memory hotplugging, and providing a patch. [ANNOUNCE/CFP] CXL Microconference at LPC 2023 (Davidlohr Bueso) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a4c2gx2tnm4ckax7qkx2trnvmqjssfytc45sb2zikuayd2marc@rpsjp4icgsvn Davidlohr announces CXL microconference has accepted for LPC this year, and inviting people in the call for participation....

As of 2023-06-06, for some reason https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm seems stopped being updated since 2023-05-31. On the day of 2023-06-06, the update has resumed. [PATCH v3 0/5] riscv: Introduce KASLR (Alexandre Ghiti) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230606123242.20804-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com This patchset introduces KASLR, which allows kernel mapping randomization, for riscv. Question about oom-killer (Gou Hao) https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/A31B3EA06AF77F13+c7278bd0-2695-4cc0-5a56-531a06ac2389@uniontech.com/ A question about oom-killer behavior that suspected to be a kernel bug. [PATCH v3] Documentation/mm: Initial page table documentation (Linus Walleij) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230608125501.3960093-1-linus.walleij@linaro.org...

[PATCH 00/12] mm: free retracted page table by RCU (Hugh Dickins) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/35e983f5-7ed3-b310-d949-9ae8b130cdab@google.com This patchset aims to reduce mmap_lock contention by freeing retracted page table by RCU, with preceding and succeeding patchsets. This patchset was in Google data center kernel for three years. [PATCH] mm: madvise: fix uneven accounting of psi (Charan Teja Kalla) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1685531374-6091-1-git-send-email-quic_charante@quicinc.com For madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT) is called for folios, PSI for the folio is not always accounted. This patchset makes it be consistent by always not considering PSI for folios that are reclaimed through madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT)....