memory management - core · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
• M David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
• R Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• R Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
• R Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
• R Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• R Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• R Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
• F include/linux/folio_batch.h
• F include/linux/gfp.h
• F include/linux/gfp_types.h
• F include/linux/highmem.h
• F include/linux/leafops.h
• F include/linux/memory.h
• F include/linux/mm.h
• F include/linux/mm_*.h
• F include/linux/mmzone.h
• F include/linux/mmdebug.h
• F include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
• F include/linux/pagewalk.h
• F include/linux/pgalloc.h
• F include/linux/pgtable.h
• F include/linux/ptdump.h
• F include/linux/vmpressure.h
• F include/linux/vmstat.h
• F fs/proc/meminfo.c
• F kernel/fork.c
• F mm/Kconfig
• F mm/debug.c
• F mm/folio-compat.c
• F mm/highmem.c
• F mm/init-mm.c
• F mm/internal.h
• F mm/maccess.c
• F mm/memory.c
• F mm/mmu_notifier.c
• F mm/mmzone.c
• F mm/pagewalk.c
• F mm/pgtable-generic.c
• F mm/ptdump.c
• F mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
• F mm/sparse.c
• F mm/util.c
• F mm/vmpressure.c
• F mm/vmstat.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COLD44d IN MM: 31 (31M) [PATCH v6 05/14] mm: remove READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS Kconfig option
  2026-05-17 · Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
• STALE72d REVIEWED: 27 (27M) [PATCH v5 05/14] mm: remove READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS Kconfig option
  2026-04-29 · Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
• STALE95d REVIEWED: 27 (27M) [PATCH 7.2 v4 05/12] mm: remove READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS Kconfig option
  2026-04-24 · Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
• STALE94d REVIEWED: 27 (27M) [PATCH 7.2 v3 05/12] mm: remove READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS Kconfig option
  2026-04-18 · Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
• STALE104d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH 7.2 v2 04/12] mm: remove READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS Kconfig option
  2026-04-13 · Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
• STALE108d [PATCH v1 01/10] mm: remove READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS Kconfig option
  2026-03-27 · Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
• STALE128d [RFC PATCH 01/11] mm: remove READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS Kconfig option
  2026-03-23 · Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
• STALE146d [PATCH v2 4/4] folio_batch: Rename PAGEVEC_SIZE to FOLIO_BATCH_SIZE
  2026-02-25 · Tal Zussman <hidden>
• STALE146d [PATCH v2 3/4] folio_batch: Rename pagevec.h to folio_batch.h
  2026-02-25 · Tal Zussman <hidden>
• STALE335d REVIEWED: 7 (6M) [PATCH v4 2/3] mm: add vmstat for kernel_file pages
  2025-08-21 · Boris Burkov <hidden>
• STALE343d REVIEWED: 7 (6M) [PATCH v3 2/4] mm: add vmstat for cgroup uncharged pages
  2025-08-19 · Boris Burkov <hidden>
• STALE346d [PATCH v2 2/3] mm: add vmstat for cgroup uncharged pages
  2025-08-15 · Boris Burkov <hidden>
• STALE357d [PATCH 3/3] mm: add vmstat for cgroup uncharged pages
  2025-08-06 · Boris Burkov <hidden>
• STALE363d LANDED [PATCH 01/10] mm: rename call_mmap/mmap_prepare to vfs_mmap/mmap_prepare
  2025-06-16 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE464d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3] mm: alloc_pages_bulk: support both simple and full-featured API
  2025-04-14 · Yunsheng Lin <hidden>
• STALE486d [RFC PATCH V3 34/43] rv64ilp32_abi: mm: Adapt vm_flags_t struct
  2025-03-25 · guoren@kernel.org
• STALE486d [RFC PATCH V3 32/43] rv64ilp32_abi: mm: Remove _folio_nr_pages
  2025-03-25 · guoren@kernel.org
• STALE615d [PATCH 15/19] fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on page fault
  2024-11-21 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE615d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 14/19] mm: don't allow huge faults for files with pre content watches
  2024-11-21 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE542d [PATCH v8 16/19] fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on page fault
  2024-11-15 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• STALE542d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v8 15/19] mm: don't allow huge faults for files with pre content watches
  2024-11-15 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• STALE617d [PATCH v7 15/18] fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on page fault
  2024-11-12 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• STALE617d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v7 14/18] mm: don't allow huge faults for files with pre content watches
  2024-11-12 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• STALE625d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v6 13/17] mm: don't allow huge faults for files with pre content watches
  2024-11-11 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• STALE625d [PATCH v6 14/17] fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on page fault
  2024-11-11 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• STALE644d [PATCH v5 14/18] fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on page fault
  2024-09-04 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• STALE644d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v5 13/18] mm: don't allow huge faults for files with pre content watches
  2024-09-04 · Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
• STALE1072d [PATCH v4 04/48] mm: shrinker: add infrastructure for dynamically allocating shrinker
  2023-08-07 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE1072d [PATCH v4 01/48] mm: move some shrinker-related function declarations to mm/internal.h
  2023-08-07 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE1072d [PATCH v4 02/48] mm: vmscan: move shrinker-related code into a separate file
  2023-08-07 · Qi Zheng <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.

• STALE128d [RFC PATCH 01/11] mm: remove READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS Kconfig option
  2026-03-23 · Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>