vmalloc · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
• M Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/vmalloc.h
• F mm/vmalloc.c
• F mm/vmalloc.h
• F lib/test_vmalloc.c

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• COOLING4d [PATCH v2 0/8] mm: distinguish PTE table storage from PTE values
  2026-09-03 10:31 · 1 reply in 7d · Muhammad Usama Anjum <hidden>

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on intel-gfx (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COOLING4d [PATCH v2 3/8] mm: use hw_pte_t for generic PTE table storage
  2026-09-03 · Muhammad Usama Anjum <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH 4/9] mm: use hw_pte_t for generic PTE table storage
  2026-08-06 · Muhammad Usama Anjum <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH 2/9] mm: make hw_pte_t visible to generic PTE interfaces
  2026-08-06 · Muhammad Usama Anjum <hidden>
• COLD37d [PATCH RFC 04/11] mm: use hw_pte_t for generic PTE table storage
  2026-07-27 · Muhammad Usama Anjum <hidden>
• COLD37d [PATCH RFC 02/11] mm: make hw_pte_t visible to generic PTE interfaces
  2026-07-27 · Muhammad Usama Anjum <hidden>
• STALE1312d [PATCH v2 3/6] mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls
  2023-01-25 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE2166d [PATCH 02/11] mm: add a VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES flag for vmap
  2020-10-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2166d [PATCH 11/11] mm: remove alloc_vm_area
  2020-10-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2166d [PATCH 01/11] mm: update the documentation for vfree
  2020-10-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2166d [PATCH 03/11] mm: add a vmap_pfn function
  2020-10-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2167d [PATCH 02/10] mm: add a VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES flag for vmap
  2020-09-30 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2167d [PATCH 01/10] mm: update the documentation for vfree
  2020-09-30 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2167d [PATCH 03/10] mm: add a vmap_pfn function
  2020-09-30 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2167d [PATCH 10/10] mm: remove alloc_vm_area
  2020-09-30 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2167d [PATCH 01/11] mm: update the documentation for vfree
  2020-09-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2167d [PATCH 11/11] mm: remove alloc_vm_area
  2020-09-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2167d [PATCH 02/11] mm: add a VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES flag for vmap
  2020-09-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2167d [PATCH 03/11] mm: add a vmap_pfn function
  2020-09-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2173d Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86/xen: open code alloc_vm_area in arch_gnttab_valloc
  2020-09-22 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2173d [PATCH 6/6] x86/xen: open code alloc_vm_area in arch_gnttab_valloc
  2020-09-18 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2173d [PATCH 2/6] mm: add a vmap_pfn function
  2020-09-18 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2208d [PATCH 1/4] mm: Export flush_vm_area() to sync the PTEs upon construction
  2020-08-21 · Chris Wilson <hidden>
• STALE2683d [PATCH] mm/pgtable: Drop pgtable_t variable from pte_fn_t functions
  2019-05-02 · Anshuman Khandual <hidden>
• STALE3148d [PATCH v6 68/99] vmalloc: Convert to XArray
  2018-01-17 · Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE3184d [PATCH v2] mm/vmalloc: Replace opencoded 4-level page walkers
  2017-12-19 · Chris Wilson <hidden>
• STALE3610d [PATCH v2] mm/vmalloc: Replace opencoded 4-level page walkers
  2016-10-18 · Chris Wilson <hidden>
• STALE3610d [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: Replace opencoded 4-level page walkers
  2016-10-15 · Chris Wilson <hidden>
• STALE3789d [PATCH v2] mm/vmalloc: Keep a separate lazy-free list
  2016-04-15 · Chris Wilson <hidden>
• STALE3789d [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: Keep a separate lazy-free list
  2016-04-12 · Chris Wilson <hidden>
• STALE3807d [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/vmap: Add a notifier for when we run out of vmap address space
  2016-04-04 · Chris Wilson <hidden>

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• COLD37d [PATCH RFC 02/11] mm: make hw_pte_t visible to generic PTE interfaces
  2026-07-27 · Muhammad Usama Anjum <hidden>
• COLD37d [PATCH RFC 04/11] mm: use hw_pte_t for generic PTE table storage
  2026-07-27 · Muhammad Usama Anjum <hidden>