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

Recent patches

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

• COOLING7d [PATCH v3 17/26] mm/mm_init: Annotate static information into meminspect
  2026-07-08 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v19 36/40] dept: track PG_writeback with dept
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v19 22/40] dept: track PG_locked with dept
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• COOLING9d [RFC v2 PATCH] reserve_mem: add support for static memory
  2026-06-19 · Shyam Saini <hidden>
• COLD23d [RFC PATCH] reserve_mem: add support for static memory
  2026-06-18 · Shyam Saini <hidden>
• STALE81d [RFC 5/7] mm/page_alloc: integrate page consistency hooks
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD58d [PATCH v2 16/25] mm/mm_init: Annotate static information into meminspect
  2026-03-10 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• STALE79d REVIEWED: 22 (21M) [PATCHv7 02/18] mm: Change the interface of prep_compound_tail()
  2026-02-27 · "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org>
• STALE79d REVIEWED: 22 (21M) [PATCHv7 02/18] mm: Change the interface of prep_compound_tail()
  2026-02-27 · "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org>
• STALE79d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCHv6 02/17] mm: Change the interface of prep_compound_tail()
  2026-02-02 · Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
• STALE170d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCHv5 02/17] mm: Change the interface of prep_compound_tail()
  2026-01-28 · Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
• STALE170d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCHv4 02/14] mm: Change the interface of prep_compound_tail()
  2026-01-21 · Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH 6/6] kho/abi: add memblock ABI header
  2026-01-20 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE159d [RFC PATCH -next 7/7] mm/mglru: remove memcg lru
  2026-01-20 · Chen Ridong <hidden>
• STALE179d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCHv3 03/15] mm: Change the interface of prep_compound_tail()
  2026-01-15 · Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
• STALE130d [PATCH v3 27/29] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation
  2026-01-11 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE130d [PATCH v3 24/29] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model
  2026-01-11 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE130d [PATCH v3 23/29] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of nodes, zones and memory map
  2026-01-11 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE177d [PATCH 6/6] kho/abi: add memblock ABI header
  2026-01-05 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE148d [PATCH v2 26/28] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation
  2026-01-02 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE148d [PATCH v2 23/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model
  2026-01-02 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE148d [PATCH v2 22/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of nodes, zones and memory map
  2026-01-02 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE197d [PATCH 26/28] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation
  2025-12-28 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE197d [PATCH 23/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model
  2025-12-28 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE197d [PATCH 22/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of nodes, zones and memory map
  2025-12-28 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE194d REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH -next v2 2/7] mm/mglru: remove memcg lru
  2025-12-24 · Chen Ridong <hidden>
• STALE186d [PATCHv2 03/14] mm: Change the interface of prep_compound_tail()
  2025-12-18 · Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
• STALE207d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH -next 2/5] mm/mglru: remove memcg lru
  2025-12-09 · Chen Ridong <hidden>
• STALE207d [RFC PATCH 03/10] liveupdate: do early initialization before hugepages are allocated
  2025-12-06 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
• STALE207d [RFC PATCH 02/10] kho: disable scratch-only earlier in boot
  2025-12-06 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• STALE179d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCHv3 03/15] mm: Change the interface of prep_compound_tail()
  2026-01-15 · Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE170d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCHv4 02/14] mm: Change the interface of prep_compound_tail()
  2026-01-21 · Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE170d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCHv5 02/17] mm: Change the interface of prep_compound_tail()
  2026-01-28 · Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE79d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCHv6 02/17] mm: Change the interface of prep_compound_tail()
  2026-02-02 · Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by

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.

• STALE197d [PATCH 22/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of nodes, zones and memory map
  2025-12-28 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE197d [PATCH 23/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model
  2025-12-28 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE197d [PATCH 26/28] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation
  2025-12-28 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE148d [PATCH v2 23/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model
  2026-01-02 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE148d [PATCH v2 26/28] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation
  2026-01-02 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE130d [PATCH v3 27/29] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation
  2026-01-11 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE159d [RFC PATCH -next 7/7] mm/mglru: remove memcg lru
  2026-01-20 · Chen Ridong <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH 6/6] kho/abi: add memblock ABI header
  2026-01-20 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• COLD58d [PATCH v2 16/25] mm/mm_init: Annotate static information into meminspect
  2026-03-10 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• STALE81d [RFC 5/7] mm/page_alloc: integrate page consistency hooks
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>