memory management - page allocator · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
• M Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
• R Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• R Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
• R Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
• R Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
• R Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/compaction.h
• F include/linux/gfp.h
• F include/linux/page-isolation.h
• F include/linux/pageblock-flags.h
• F mm/compaction.c
• F mm/debug_page_alloc.c
• F mm/debug_page_ref.c
• F mm/fail_page_alloc.c
• F mm/page_alloc.c
• F mm/page_ext.c
• F mm/page_frag_cache.c
• F mm/page_isolation.c
• F mm/page_owner.c
• F mm/page_poison.c
• F mm/page_reporting.c
• F mm/page_reporting.h
• F mm/show_mem.c
• F mm/shuffle.c
• F mm/shuffle.h

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 29 patches in this subsystem on linux-devicetree, ordered by date desc.

• COOLING12d [PATCH v3 10/26] mm/show_mem: Annotate static information into meminspect
  2026-07-08 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH v3 09/26] mm/page_alloc: Annotate static information into meminspect
  2026-07-08 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• STALE115d [PATCH v2 9/9] memblock: warn when freeing reserved memory before memory map is initialized
  2026-03-23 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE115d [PATCH v2 4/9] mm: move free_reserved_area() to mm/memblock.c
  2026-03-23 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE126d [PATCH 8/8] memblock: warn when freeing reserved memory before memory map is initialized
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE126d [PATCH 3/8] mm: move free_reserved_area() to mm/memblock.c
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE63d [PATCH v2 09/25] mm/show_mem: Annotate static information into meminspect
  2026-03-10 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• STALE63d [PATCH v2 08/25] mm/page_alloc: Annotate static information into meminspect
  2026-03-10 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• STALE182d [PATCH 09/26] mm/show_mem: Annotate static information into meminspect
  2025-11-19 · Eugen Hristev <hidden>
• STALE182d [PATCH 08/26] mm/page_alloc: Annotate static information into meminspect
  2025-11-19 · Eugen Hristev <hidden>
• STALE1379d Re: [PATCH 01/21] mm/page_isolation: protect cma from isolate_single_pageblock
  2022-09-14 · Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
• STALE1379d [PATCH 18/21] mm/cma: support CMA in Designated Movable Blocks
  2022-09-13 · Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
• STALE1379d [PATCH 15/21] mm/page_alloc: allow base for movablecore
  2022-09-13 · Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
• STALE1379d [PATCH 14/21] mm/page_alloc: make alloc_contig_pages DMB aware
  2022-09-13 · Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
• STALE1379d [PATCH 13/21] mm/dmb: Introduce Designated Movable Blocks
  2022-09-13 · Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
• STALE1379d [PATCH 11/21] mm/page_alloc: introduce init_reserved_pageblock()
  2022-09-13 · Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
• STALE1379d [PATCH 10/21] mm/page_alloc.c: allow oversized movablecore
  2022-09-13 · Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
• STALE1379d [PATCH 09/21] mm/page_alloc: calculate node_spanned_pages from pfns
  2022-09-13 · Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
• STALE1379d [PATCH 05/21] mm/hugetlb: allow migrated hugepage to dissolve when freed
  2022-09-13 · Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
• STALE1379d [PATCH 01/21] mm/page_isolation: protect cma from isolate_single_pageblock
  2022-09-13 · Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
• STALE1618d [PATCH v1 2/2] mm: enforce pageblock_order < MAX_ORDER
  2022-02-14 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE1993d [PATCH v4 2/4] mm: failfast mode with __GFP_NORETRY in alloc_contig_range
  2021-01-21 · Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
• STALE2009d [PATCH v3 2/4] mm: failfast mode with __GFP_NORETRY in alloc_contig_range
  2021-01-13 · Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
• STALE2058d [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: introduce alloc_contig_mode
  2020-12-01 · Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
• STALE2058d [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: introduce cma_alloc_bulk API
  2020-12-01 · Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
• STALE2050d [PATCH 1/4] mm: introduce cma_alloc_bulk API
  2020-11-17 · Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
• STALE2516d [PATCH v2 01/11] asm-generic: add dma_zone_size
  2019-08-20 · Nicolas Saenz Julienne <hidden>
• STALE2484d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v2 21/21] memblock: drop memblock_alloc_*_nopanic() variants
  2019-01-21 · Mike Rapoport <hidden>
• STALE2743d [PATCH 21/21] memblock: drop memblock_alloc_*_nopanic() variants
  2019-01-16 · Mike Rapoport <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.

• STALE63d [PATCH v2 08/25] mm/page_alloc: Annotate static information into meminspect
  2026-03-10 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• STALE63d [PATCH v2 09/25] mm/show_mem: Annotate static information into meminspect
  2026-03-10 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• STALE126d [PATCH 8/8] memblock: warn when freeing reserved memory before memory map is initialized
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>