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Latest 30 postings or standalone patches (up to 30), newest first. Counts below cover matching patches in linux-alpha touching this subsystem.

• proc: drop the __user methods (Part 7/7) v2 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RESEND v2 5/6] proc: drop the _buf suffix from the new methods 2026-11-04
  • [PATCH RESEND v2 6/6] proc: drop the poll_table from ->proc_poll() 2026-11-04
  2026-11-04 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• proc: convert the fs, kernel and mm entries (Part 5/7) v2 · 4 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 4 of 30 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RESEND v2 25/30] alloc_tag: let procfs own the seq_file of /proc/allocinfo 2026-11-04
  • [PATCH RESEND v2 26/30] alloc_tag: let procfs copy the ioctl arguments of /proc/allocinfo 2026-11-04
  • [PATCH RESEND v2 27/30] mm/swapfile: let procfs own the seq_file of /proc/swaps 2026-11-04
  • [PATCH RESEND v2 28/30] mm/swapfile: let procfs own the wait queue of /proc/swaps 2026-11-04
  2026-11-04 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• proc: let procfs own the data path (Part 2/7) v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RESEND v2 10/23] treewide: let procfs own the seq_file of simple proc entries 2026-11-04
  2026-11-04 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• proc: fix a few old bugs in /proc handlers (Part 1/7) v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: PENDING · 3 of 51 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 01/51] alloc_tag: don't remove /proc/allocinfo under the codetag module lock 2026-11-04
  2026-11-04 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• proc: drop the __user methods rfc · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RFC 5/5] proc: drop the _buf suffix from the new methods 2026-11-02
  2026-11-02 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• proc: convert the fs, kernel and mm entries rfc · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RFC 23/27] alloc_tag: let procfs own the seq_file of /proc/allocinfo 2026-11-02
  • [PATCH RFC 24/27] alloc_tag: let procfs copy the ioctl arguments of /proc/allocinfo 2026-11-02
  • [PATCH RFC 25/27] mm/swapfile: let procfs own the seq_file of /proc/swaps 2026-11-02
  2026-11-02 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• proc: let procfs own the data path rfc · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RFC 07/16] treewide: let procfs own the seq_file of simple proc entries 2026-11-02
  2026-11-02 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• mm: make userland page table freeing RCU-safe v5 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: LANDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v5 01/12] mm/khugepaged: deposit a newly allocated page table on collapse 2026-09-25
  • [PATCH v5 11/12] mm: userland pgtable freeing is RCU-safe now, remove leftover bits 2026-09-25
  • [PATCH v5 12/12] mm: change the contract for free_pgtables(), update docs 2026-09-25
  2026-09-25 · Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
• mm: make userland page table freeing RCU-safe v4 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v4 01/12] mm/khugepaged: deposit a newly allocated page table on collapse 2026-09-22
  • [PATCH v4 11/12] mm: make userland page table freeing RCU-safe 2026-09-22
  • [PATCH v4 12/12] mm: change the contract for free_pgtables(), update docs 2026-09-22
  2026-09-22 · Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
• file: handle files on syscall exit rfc · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RFC POC 25/50] file: reimplement FD_PREPARE() on the deferred fd_prepare() path 2026-09-15
  2026-09-15 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• mm: make userland page table freeing RCU-safe v3 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 01/12] mm/huge_memory: zap deposited page tables after an RCU grace period 2026-09-11
  • [PATCH v3 11/12] mm: make userland page table freeing RCU-safe 2026-09-11
  • [PATCH v3 12/12] mm: change the contract for free_pgtables(), update docs 2026-09-11
  2026-09-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
• mm: make userland page table freeing RCU-safe v2 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 01/12] mm/huge_memory: zap deposited page tables after an RCU grace period 2026-09-08
  • [PATCH v2 11/12] mm: make userland page table freeing RCU-safe 2026-09-08
  • [PATCH v2 12/12] mm: change the contract for free_pgtables(), update docs 2026-09-08
  2026-09-08 · Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
• mm: make userland page table freeing RCU-safe v1 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 01/12] mm/huge_memory: zap deposited page tables after an RCU grace period 2026-09-01
  • [PATCH 11/12] mm: make userland page table freeing RCU-safe 2026-09-01
  • [PATCH 12/12] mm: change the contract for free_pgtables(), update docs 2026-09-01
  2026-09-01 · Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
• mm: Drop pxd_ERROR() v1 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: LANDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 1/8] mm: Make ptval_to_str() generally available 2026-08-31
  • [PATCH 2/8] mm: Stop using pxd_ERROR() 2026-08-31
  2026-08-31 · Anshuman Khandual <hidden>
• mm: Drop pxd_ERROR() v3 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 3 of 8 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC V3 1/8] mm: Make ptrval_to_str() generally available 2026-08-18
  • [RFC V3 2/8] mm: Stop using pxd_ERROR() 2026-08-18
  2026-08-18 · Anshuman Khandual <hidden>
• mm: Drop pxd_ERROR() v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC V2 6/6] mm: Drop pxd_ERROR() 2026-08-11
  2026-08-11 · Anshuman Khandual <hidden>
• uaccess: Convert small fixed size copy_{to/from}_user() to scoped user access v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC PATCH v1 5/9] uaccess: Switch to copy_{to/from}_user_partial() when relevant 2026-04-27
  2026-04-27 · Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@kernel.org>
• treewide: Cleanup LATCH, CLOCK_TICK_RATE and get_cycles() [ab]use v1 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 3 of 38 landed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [patch 14/38] slub: Use prandom instead of get_cycles() 2026-04-10
  • [patch 20/38] kasan: sw_tags: Replace get_cycles() by random_get_entropy() 2026-04-10
  2026-04-10 · Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
• arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page v3 · 4 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 2 of 4 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 1/4] mm: don't special case !MMU for is_zero_pfn() and my_zero_pfn() 2026-02-11
  • [PATCH v3 2/4] mm: rename my_zero_pfn() to zero_pfn() 2026-02-11
  • [PATCH v3 3/4] arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page 2026-02-11
  • [PATCH v3 4/4] mm: cache struct page for empty_zero_page and return it from ZERO_PAGE() 2026-02-11
  2026-02-11 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page v2 · 4 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: don't special case !MMU for is_zero_pfn() and my_zero_pfn() 2026-02-09
  • [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: rename my_zero_pfn() to zero_pfn() 2026-02-09
  • [PATCH v2 3/4] arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page 2026-02-09
  • [PATCH v2 4/4] mm: cache struct page for empty_zero_page and return it from ZERO_PAGE() 2026-02-09
  2026-02-09 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• enable PT_RECLAIM on more 64-bit architectures v4 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 2 of 8 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v4 1/8] mm: change mm/pt_reclaim.c to use asm/tlb.h instead of asm-generic/tlb.h 2026-01-27
  • [PATCH v4 7/8] mm: convert __HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE to CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE config 2026-01-27
  • [PATCH v4 8/8] mm: make PT_RECLAIM depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE 2026-01-27
  2026-01-27 · Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
• [PATCH mm-unstable] arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page 2026-01-24 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• arch, mm: consolidate hugetlb early reservation v3 · 5 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 8 of 29 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 23/29] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of nodes, zones and memory map 2026-01-11
  • [PATCH v3 24/29] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model 2026-01-11
  • [PATCH v3 27/29] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation 2026-01-11
  • [PATCH v3 28/29] mm/hugetlb: drop hugetlb_cma_check() 2026-01-11
  • [PATCH v3 29/29] Revert "mm/hugetlb: deal with multiple calls to hugetlb_bootmem_alloc" 2026-01-11
  2026-01-11 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• [PATCH] mm/pgtable: convert pgtable_t to ptdesc pointer 2026-01-07 · alexs@kernel.org
• arch, mm: consolidate hugetlb early reservation v2 · 5 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 22/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of nodes, zones and memory map 2026-01-02
  • [PATCH v2 23/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model 2026-01-02
  • [PATCH v2 26/28] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation 2026-01-02
  • [PATCH v2 27/28] mm/hugetlb: drop hugetlb_cma_check() 2026-01-02
  • [PATCH v2 28/28] Revert "mm/hugetlb: deal with multiple calls to hugetlb_bootmem_alloc" 2026-01-02
  2026-01-02 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• arch, mm: consolidate hugetlb early reservation v1 · 5 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 22/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of nodes, zones and memory map 2025-12-28
  • [PATCH 23/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model 2025-12-28
  • [PATCH 26/28] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation 2025-12-28
  • [PATCH 27/28] mm/hugetlb: drop hugetlb_cma_check() 2025-12-28
  • [PATCH 28/28] Revert "mm/hugetlb: deal with multiple calls to hugetlb_bootmem_alloc" 2025-12-28
  2025-12-28 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• enable PT_RECLAIM on all 64-bit architectures v3 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 1 of 7 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 1/7] mm: change mm/pt_reclaim.c to use asm/tlb.h instead of asm-generic/tlb.h 2025-12-17
  • [PATCH v3 7/7] mm: make PT_RECLAIM depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE 2025-12-17
  2025-12-17 · Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
• enable PT_RECLAIM on all 64-bit architectures v2 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 1/7] mm: change mm/pt_reclaim.c to use asm/tlb.h instead of asm-generic/tlb.h 2025-11-19
  • [PATCH v2 7/7] mm: enable PT_RECLAIM on all 64-bit architectures 2025-11-19
  2025-11-19 · Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
• enable PT_RECLAIM on all 64-bit architectures v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 7/7] mm: make PT_RECLAIM depend on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE && 64BIT 2025-11-14
  2025-11-14 · Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
• [PATCH v6] mm/percpu: Conditionally define _shared_alloc_tag via CONFIG_ARCH_MODULE_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU 2025-06-18 · Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>