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 lib/test_vmalloc.c

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-07-09

Recent patches

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

• COOLING12d IN LINUX-NEXT: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 3/3] mm: split out vmalloc declarations from internal.h
  2026-07-09 · "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
• COOLING10d [PATCH 3/3] mm: split out vmalloc declarations from internal.h
  2026-07-09 · "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE307d [PATCH v2 15/16] fs/proc: update vmcore to use .proc_mmap_prepare
  2025-09-10 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE316d [PATCH 15/16] fs/proc: update vmcore to use .proc_mmap_[prepare, complete]
  2025-09-08 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE1041d Re: [PATCH v2 4/9] mm: vmalloc: Remove global vmap_area_root rb-tree
  2023-09-08 · Baoquan He <hidden>
• STALE1041d Re: [PATCH v2 4/9] mm: vmalloc: Remove global vmap_area_root rb-tree
  2023-09-08 · Baoquan He <hidden>
• STALE1266d [PATCH v2 3/6] mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls
  2023-01-25 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1561d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v3] mm/vmalloc: fix spinning drain_vmap_work after reading from /proc/vmcore
  2022-04-13 · Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
• STALE1561d [PATCH v2] mm/vmalloc: fix spinning drain_vmap_work after reading from /proc/vmcore
  2022-04-06 · Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
• STALE1568d [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: fix spinning drain_vmap_work after reading from /proc/vmcore
  2022-04-05 · Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
• STALE2799d [PATCH] mm: convert totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and managed_pages to atomic.
  2018-10-23 · Arun KS <hidden>
• STALE4769d [PATCH v8 5/9] vmalloc: introduce remap_vmalloc_range_partial
  2013-05-23 · HATAYAMA Daisuke <hidden>
• STALE4769d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v8 4/9] vmalloc: make find_vm_area check in range
  2013-05-23 · HATAYAMA Daisuke <hidden>
• STALE4809d [PATCH v7 5/8] vmalloc: introduce remap_vmalloc_range_partial
  2013-05-22 · HATAYAMA Daisuke <hidden>
• STALE4809d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 4/8] vmalloc: make find_vm_area check in range
  2013-05-22 · HATAYAMA Daisuke <hidden>
• STALE4815d [PATCH v6 5/8] vmalloc: introduce remap_vmalloc_range_partial
  2013-05-15 · HATAYAMA Daisuke <hidden>
• STALE4815d [PATCH v6 4/8] vmalloc: make find_vm_area check in range
  2013-05-15 · HATAYAMA Daisuke <hidden>
• STALE4817d [PATCH v5 4/8] vmalloc: introduce remap_vmalloc_range_partial
  2013-05-14 · HATAYAMA Daisuke <hidden>
• STALE4817d [PATCH v5 3/8] vmalloc: make find_vm_area check in range
  2013-05-14 · HATAYAMA Daisuke <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] mm, vmalloc: export vmap_area_list, instead of vmlist
  2013-03-15 · Atsushi Kumagai <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 2/8] mm, vmalloc: move get_vmalloc_info() to vmalloc.c
  2013-03-13 · Joonsoo Kim <hidden>
• STALE4880d [PATCH v2 6/8] mm, vmalloc: iterate vmap_area_list, instead of vmlist, in vmallocinfo()
  2013-03-13 · Joonsoo Kim <hidden>
• STALE4880d [PATCH v2 8/8] mm, vmalloc: remove list management of vmlist after initializing vmalloc
  2013-03-13 · Joonsoo Kim <hidden>
• STALE4880d [PATCH v2 7/8] mm, vmalloc: export vmap_area_list, instead of vmlist
  2013-03-13 · Joonsoo Kim <hidden>
• STALE4880d [PATCH v2 3/8] mm, vmalloc: protect va->vm by vmap_area_lock
  2013-03-13 · Joonsoo Kim <hidden>
• STALE4880d [PATCH v2 4/8] mm, vmalloc: iterate vmap_area_list, instead of vmlist in vread/vwrite()
  2013-03-13 · Joonsoo Kim <hidden>
• STALE4880d [PATCH v2 5/8] mm, vmalloc: iterate vmap_area_list in get_vmalloc_info()
  2013-03-13 · Joonsoo Kim <hidden>
• STALE4927d [RFC PATCH 3/8] mm, vmalloc: protect va->vm by vmap_area_lock
  2012-12-06 · Joonsoo Kim <hidden>
• STALE4927d [RFC PATCH 4/8] mm, vmalloc: iterate vmap_area_list, instead of vmlist in vread/vwrite()
  2012-12-06 · Joonsoo Kim <hidden>
• STALE4927d [RFC PATCH 6/8] mm, vmalloc: iterate vmap_area_list, instead of vmlist, in vmallocinfo()
  2012-12-06 · Joonsoo Kim <hidden>