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[RFC PATCH v10 mm-new 0/9] mm, bpf: BPF-MM, BPF-THP (Yafang Shao) https://lore.kernel.org/20251015141716.887-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com Yafang posted 10th RFC version of BPF-based THP control patch series.

[PATCH v6 00/23] mm/ksw: Introduce real-time KStackWatch debugging tool (Jinchao Wang) https://lore.kernel.org/20250930024402.1043776-1-wangjinchao600@gmail.com Jinchao Wang posted sixth versin of the kernel stack watching tool patchset. [GIT PULL] slab updates for 6.18 (Vlastimil Babka) https://lore.kernel.org/5dc1b53d-29fb-42f6-9fff-d6b42da17a7f@suse.cz Vlastimil posted SLAB subsystem pull request for 6.18 to Linus Torvalds. This includes the SLAB sheves and re-entrant kmalloc_nolock(). [GIT PULL] MM updates for 6.18-rc1 (Andrew Morton) https://lore.kernel.org/20251001190218.f33f695b869696c2df9e841d@linux-foundation.org Andrew posted memory management subsystem pull requests for 6.18-rc1 to Linus Torvalds....

Linux 6.17 (Linus Torvalds) https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wiX38oG6=xFBNLO0pnjqHfxzjd6-1kZ5Nv9HfqNC2PoFA@mail.gmail.com Linus released Linux 6.17, mentioning there were no huge surprises this past week.

[TECH TOPIC] Reaching consensus on CONFIG_HIGHMEM phaseout (Arnd Bergman) https://lore.kernel.org/4ff89b72-03ff-4447-9d21-dd6a5fe1550f@app.fastmail.com Arnd proposes a kernel summit session for discussing removal of CONFIG_HIGHMEM. Linux 6.17-rc6 (Linus Torvalds) https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wganrF=w6xndv5kFeM9v2QwtZW4yzgHY=0=SwnjxxFVaA@mail.gmail.com Linus announced the sixth candiate for Linux 6.17. Linus says apparently this release and calm and nice, maybe because of the vacations in August.

[GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.17-rc5 (Andrew Morton) https://lore.kernel.org/20250901172234.3a74524a97b595a5a81d1697@linux-foundation.org Andrew posted MM hotfixes pull request for 6.17-rc5 to Linus Torvalds. [PATCH v2 RFC 0/7] KFuzzTest: a new kernel fuzzing framework (Ethan Graham) https://lore.kernel.org/20250901164212.460229-1-ethan.w.s.graham@gmail.com Ethan posted second RFC version patch series for kernel internal fuzzing test framework. [v4 00/15] mm: support device-private THP (Balbir Singh) https://lore.kernel.org/20250903011900.3657435-1-balbirs@nvidia.com Balbir posted the fourth version of the patch series for supporting THP on device-private memory. Where to put page->memdesc initially (Matthew Wilcox) https://lore....