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LKML News v5.10-rc4

[PATCH -V3 0/2] autonuma: Migrate on fault among multiple bound nodes (Huang Ying) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201110055951.85085-1-ying.huang@intel.com This patchset makes AutoNUMA’s cross-socket memory access optimization possible even if the application’s memory is bound to multiple NUMA nodes. [PATCH] kfence: Avoid stalling work queue task without allocations (Marco Elver) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201110135320.3309507-1-elver@google.com This commit makes the toggle allocation gate of kfence to have 1 second timeout, to be prepared for allocation stallings. [RFC PATCH 0/6] Split huge pages to any lower order pages.

LKML News v5.10-rc3

[PATCH v7 0/9] KFENCE: A low-overhead sampling-based memory safety error detector (Marco Elver) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201103175841.3495947-1-elver@google.com The 7th version of KFENCE. Now the authors say they believe this is ready to be included in the mm tree. And, it has now merged in the -mm tree. [PATCH] page_frag: Recover from memory pressure (Matthew Wilcox) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201105042140.5253-1-willy@infradead.org After an extreme memory pressure, some non-essential packets can be dropped because the ‘page_frag’ allocator do the drops to recover from the memory pressure but it doesn’t change back the behavior even after the recovery.

LKML News v5.10-rc2

[PATCH 0/9] More THP fixes (Matthew Wilcox) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201026183136.10404-1-willy@infradead.org Several THP fixes. [PATCH v5 0/9] KFENCE: A low-overhead sampling-based memory safety error detector (Marco Elver) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201027141606.426816-1-elver@google.com The fifth version of the KFENCE. [PATCH -V2 0/2] autonuma: Migrate on fault among multiple bound nodes (Huang Ying) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201028023411.15045-1-ying.huang@intel.com This patch is for multiple NUMA nodes bounded application’s AutoNUMA balancing. [PATCH v6 0/9] KFENCE: A low-overhead sampling-based memory safety error detector (Marco Elver) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201029131649.182037-1-elver@google.com

LKML News v5.10-rc1

[PATCH] mm: Make allocator take care of memoryless numa node (Xianting Tian) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201012082739.15661-1-tian.xianting@h3c.com CPUs in powerpc like architecture could have no local memory. As the kernel code doesn’t care about it, this commit makes it to handle the case. incoming (Andrew Morton) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201013164658.3bfd96cc224d8923e66a9f4e@linux-foundation.org This is the pull request from Andrew Morton, the mm maintainer, for v5.10. [PATCH v4 0/5] Speed up mremap on large regions (Kalesh Singh) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201014005320.2233162-1-kaleshsingh@google.com) Repost fo the patch series.

LKML News v5.9

[PATCH RFC v2] Opportunistic memory reclaim (Andrea Righi) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201005081313.732745-1-andrea.righi@canonical.com This patch introduces new file under memcg, ‘memory.swap.reclaim’ that allow users to incur Reclaim even before the memory pressure happens, to help reducing system memory footprint and speed up hibernation/VM migration time, etc. [PATCH v2 0/2] Add tracepoints around mmap_lock acquisition (Axel Rasmussen) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201007184403.1902111-1-axelrasmussen@google.com This patchset adds tracepoints for mmap_lock to use that for analysis of the contention. [RFC][PATCH 0/9] [v4][RESEND] Migrate Pages in lieu of discard (Dave Hansen) https://lkml.

LKML News v5.9-rc8

[RFC PATCH v2 00/30] 1GB PUD THP support on x86_64 (Zi Yan) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200928175428.4110504-1-zi.yan@sent.com This patch adds support of 1GB THP using PUD. [PATCH v4 00/11] KFENCE: A low-overhead sampling-based memory safety error detector (Marco Elver) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200929133814.2834621-1-elver@google.com The 4th version of the KFENCE patchset. [PATCH 0/5] Speed up mremap on large regions (Kalesh Singh) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200930222130.4175584-1-kaleshsingh@google.com This patchset optimizes mremap() by allowing memory regions to be able to mapped at PMD/PUD. [PATCH] selftests/vm: 10x speedup for hmm-tests https://lkml.

LKML News v5.9-rc7

[PATCH v3 00/10] KFENCE: A low-overhead sampling-based memory safety error detector (Marco Elver) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200921132611.1700350-1-elver@google.com The third version of KFENCE patchset is uploaded. Machine lockups on extreme memory pressure (Shakeel Butt) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CALvZod4FWLsV9byrKQojeus7tMDhHjQHFF5J_JpNsyB0HkaERA@mail.gmail.com Shakeel reports a machine lockup due to extreme memory pressure. It’s locked up on memcg’s vmpressure sr_lock, which is irq-unsafe. And the lockup made in IRQ. He proposes a solution simply changing the lock with irq-safe one, but he also admits it’s not a maintainable solution.

LKML News v5.9-rc6

[PATCH v14 0/5] KASAN-KUnit Integration (David Gow) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200915035828.570483-1-davidgow@google.com The 14th patchset for the KASAN and KUnit integration. From the v13, compile warnings in test_kasan_module fixed. [PATCH v2 00/10] KFENCE: A low-overhead sampling-based memory safety error detector (Marco Elver) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200915132046.3332537-1-elver@google.com The second version of the KFENCE posted. [PATCH 1/2] fs: Add a filesystem flag for THPs (Matthew Wilcox) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200916032717.22917-1-willy@infradead.org This patchset caches whether the backing filesystem support THP or not in an address space flags, so that the page cache can determine if it can send THP to the backing filesystem or not.

LKML News v5.9-rc5

[PATCH RFC 00/10] KFENCE: A low-overhead sampling-based memory safety error detector (Marco Elver) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200907134055.2878499-1-elver@google.com This patchset introduces another kernel use-after-free detection infrastructure, called Kernel Electric-Fence (KFENCE). Unlike KASAN, this trades the performance for precision and as a result it incurs near zero performance overhead so that it can be enabled in the production. [PATCH 00/11] Remove assumptions of THP size (Matthew Wilcox) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200908195539.25896-1-willy@infradead.org Matthew is working for variable sized THP. For start of the work, this patchset changes the assumption that THP will be PMD size by introducing thp_nr_pages() and let the other VM code to use it.

LKML News v5.9-rc4

[PATCH v9 0/3] introduce memory hinting API for external process (Minchan Kim) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200901000633.1920247-1-minchan@kernel.org After the rejection, this patchset posted again. Linus’s opinion about dropping the task_struct to do_madvise and Christian’s comment regarding compat syscall entry has resolved. And, this patchset merged in the ‘-mm’ tree again. Hopefully it will be merged in mainline by 5.10! [PATCH v6 0/3] Anonymous VMA naming patches (Sumit Semwal) https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200901091901.19779-1-sumit.semwal@linaro.org This is reposting of old patchset which Colin Cross sent before.