memblock and memory management initialization · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/boot-time-mm.rst
• F include/linux/kho/abi/memblock.h
• F include/linux/memblock.h
• F mm/bootmem_info.c
• F mm/memblock.c
• F mm/memtest.c
• F mm/mm_init.c
• F mm/rodata_test.c
• F tools/testing/memblock/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM3d [PATCH v3 00/26] Introduce meminspect
  2026-07-08 05:36 · 1 reply in 7d · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>

Recent patches

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

• WARM3d [PATCH v3 17/26] mm/mm_init: Annotate static information into meminspect
  2026-07-08 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• STALE106d [PATCH v2 9/9] memblock: warn when freeing reserved memory before memory map is initialized
  2026-03-23 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE106d [PATCH v2 8/9] memblock, treewide: make memblock_free() handle late freeing
  2026-03-23 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE106d [PATCH v2 7/9] memblock: make free_reserved_area() update memblock if ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK=y
  2026-03-23 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE106d [PATCH v2 6/9] memblock: extract page freeing from free_reserved_area() into a helper
  2026-03-23 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE106d [PATCH v2 5/9] memblock: make free_reserved_area() more robust
  2026-03-23 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE106d [PATCH v2 4/9] mm: move free_reserved_area() to mm/memblock.c
  2026-03-23 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE106d [PATCH v2 1/9] memblock: reserve_mem: fix end caclulation in reserve_mem_release_by_name()
  2026-03-23 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 9/8] memblock tests: add stubs required for free_reserved_area()
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE118d [PATCH 8/8] memblock: warn when freeing reserved memory before memory map is initialized
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE118d [PATCH 7/8] memblock, treewide: make memblock_free() handle late freeing
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE118d [PATCH 6/8] memblock: make free_reserved_area() update memblock if ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK=y
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE118d [PATCH 5/8] memblock: extract page freeing from free_reserved_area() into a helper
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE118d [PATCH 4/8] memblock: make free_reserved_area() more robust
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE118d [PATCH 3/8] mm: move free_reserved_area() to mm/memblock.c
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• COLD54d [PATCH v2 16/25] mm/mm_init: Annotate static information into meminspect
  2026-03-10 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• STALE230d Re: [PATCH v8 12/17] x86/e820: temporarily enable KHO scratch for memory below 1M
  2025-11-25 · Usama Arif <hidden>
• STALE173d [PATCH 18/26] mm/memblock: Add MEMBLOCK_INSPECT flag
  2025-11-19 · Eugen Hristev <hidden>
• STALE173d [PATCH 16/26] mm/mm_init: Annotate static information into meminspect
  2025-11-19 · Eugen Hristev <hidden>
• STALE215d [PATCH v8 15/17] memblock: add KHO support for reserve_mem
  2025-05-09 · Changyuan Lyu <hidden>
• STALE215d [PATCH v8 05/17] kexec: add KHO parsing support
  2025-05-09 · Changyuan Lyu <hidden>
• STALE215d [PATCH v8 04/17] kexec: add Kexec HandOver (KHO) generation helpers
  2025-05-09 · Changyuan Lyu <hidden>
• STALE215d [PATCH v8 03/17] memblock: introduce memmap_init_kho_scratch()
  2025-05-09 · Changyuan Lyu <hidden>
• STALE215d [PATCH v8 02/17] memblock: Add support for scratch memory
  2025-05-09 · Changyuan Lyu <hidden>
• STALE215d [PATCH v8 01/17] memblock: add MEMBLOCK_RSRV_KERN flag
  2025-05-09 · Changyuan Lyu <hidden>
• STALE433d [PATCH v7 16/18] memblock: add KHO support for reserve_mem
  2025-05-01 · Changyuan Lyu <hidden>
• STALE433d [PATCH v7 05/18] kexec: add KHO parsing support
  2025-05-01 · Changyuan Lyu <hidden>
• STALE433d [PATCH v7 04/18] kexec: add Kexec HandOver (KHO) generation helpers
  2025-05-01 · Changyuan Lyu <hidden>
• STALE433d [PATCH v7 03/18] memblock: introduce memmap_init_kho_scratch()
  2025-05-01 · Changyuan Lyu <hidden>
• STALE433d [PATCH v7 02/18] memblock: Add support for scratch memory
  2025-05-01 · Changyuan Lyu <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.

• COLD54d [PATCH v2 16/25] mm/mm_init: Annotate static information into meminspect
  2026-03-10 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• STALE118d [PATCH 4/8] memblock: make free_reserved_area() more robust
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE118d [PATCH 5/8] memblock: extract page freeing from free_reserved_area() into a helper
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE118d [PATCH 6/8] memblock: make free_reserved_area() update memblock if ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK=y
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE118d [PATCH 7/8] memblock, treewide: make memblock_free() handle late freeing
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE118d [PATCH 8/8] memblock: warn when freeing reserved memory before memory map is initialized
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 9/8] memblock tests: add stubs required for free_reserved_area()
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE106d [PATCH v2 1/9] memblock: reserve_mem: fix end caclulation in reserve_mem_release_by_name()
  2026-03-23 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE106d [PATCH v2 5/9] memblock: make free_reserved_area() more robust
  2026-03-23 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE106d [PATCH v2 6/9] memblock: extract page freeing from free_reserved_area() into a helper
  2026-03-23 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>