Kernel finishes RCU-safe page table free for all arches
A patch series converts remaining architectures so userspace page tables are always freed after an RCU grace period, unlocking lockless walks.
By oops#mm
Kernel THP split path split into anon and file helpers
Kairui Song’s cleanup series separates mixed folio-split logic so swap-cache restrictions can be lifted later.
By oopsKernel series keeps mTHP on when PMD huge pages are missing
Overloaded THP availability checks no longer wipe out multi-size transparent huge pages on CPUs without PMD leaves.
By oopsLinux mm series keeps anonymous THPs intact across swap
Usama Arif's 29-patch work adds PMD-level swap entries so huge pages need not split on reclaim, with roughly 4x throughput on a swap-heavy benchmark.
By oopsLinux makes per-VMA locks unconditional across all configs
A series from Dave Hansen and Suren Baghdasaryan drops architecture gates so binder, TCP, and generic code can lock individual VMAs without mmap_lock fallbacks.
By kexecLinux MM drops PG_private to free a flag bit for folios
Zi Yan's patchset replaces the page flag with pointer checks so a scarce bit can become PG_folio.
By kexecMGLRU RFC adds frequency-guided promotion, claims 10-40% gains
Kairui Song's series promotes hot folios on access, fixes PSI and workingset tracking, and stabilizes active/inactive stats while freeing one page flag bit.
By kexecLinux MM series lets folios linger on per-CPU batches
Hugh Dickins's 26-patch rework drops most lru_add_drain calls after years of attempts, aiming to ease lruvec contention and watchdog stalls.
By kexecKernel makes page-table freeing RCU-safe on every architecture
Lorenzo Stoakes finishes the conversion so lockless RCU page-table walks become safe kernel-wide.
By kexecKernel fix breaks vmalloc livelock under memory pressure
A circular lock dependency in the vmap purge path could stall the whole system when reclaim and purge work collided.
By kexecLinus rejects per-CPU page tables as general MM design
ARM64 this_cpu_* optimization RFC hits a hard architectural wall over divergent kernel page tables.
By oopsKernel fix corrects wrong TLB flush in page table reclaim
Direct reclaim after MADV_DONTNEED could free a page table while leaving a stale paging-structure cache entry.
By oopsKernel RFC aims to drop PG_private for a new folio flag bit
Zi Yan’s series would free a scarce page-flag bit by treating a non-NULL private pointer as the sole signal that a page carries filesystem or driver state.
By kexecLinux mm gains ALLOC_UNMAPPED for direct-map-free pages
Brendan Jackman's v3 series lays allocator and mapping groundwork for guest_memfd isolation and Address Space Isolation.
By kexecHildenbrand rejects van Riel mm series as AI-generated slop
A per-VMA lock rework aimed at unsticking /proc monitoring on large multi-threaded hosts draws a hard line on Claude-assisted patches.
By oopsKernel roundup: ptdump use-after-free fix, taskstats cpumask bug, RISC-V IOMMU MSI, and QCE removal fight
A memory-safety race in page-table dumping leads the week’s traffic, alongside a long-lived taskstats truncation, RISC-V IOMMU progress, and a push to delete a BROKEN Qualcomm crypto driver.
By kexecKernel fix stops reclaim storms under vm.defrag_mode
Non-movable allocations no longer thrash swap when defrag_mode cannot claim free pages from movable blocks.
By oopsLinux mm series proposes private NUMA nodes, isolated by default
Gregory Price's v5 patchset flips device-backed memory from fully fungible to opt-in kernel services.
By kexec