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

• arm64: Set kernel stack size from cmdline rfc · 1 matching patch

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

  • [RFC PATCH 10/15] mm/vmalloc: Add a get_vm_area_node() 2026-09-28
  2026-09-28 · Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@google.com>
• Direct Map Removal Support for guest_memfd v12 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: PENDING · 9 of 16 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v12 01/16] set_memory: set_direct_map_* to take address 2026-04-10
  2026-04-10 · Kalyazin, Nikita <hidden>
• Direct Map Removal Support for guest_memfd v11 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v11 01/16] set_memory: set_direct_map_* to take address 2026-03-17
  2026-03-17 · Kalyazin, Nikita <hidden>
• Direct Map Removal Support for guest_memfd v10 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v10 01/15] set_memory: set_direct_map_* to take address 2026-01-26
  2026-01-26 · Kalyazin, Nikita <hidden>
• kasan: x86: arm64: KASAN tag-based mode for x86 v6 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v6 01/18] kasan: Unpoison pcpu chunks with base address tag 2025-10-29
  • [PATCH v6 09/18] mm/execmem: Untag addresses in EXECMEM_ROX related pointer arithmetic 2025-10-29
  2025-10-29 · Maciej Wieczor-Retman <hidden>
• expand mmap_prepare functionality, port more users v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 15/16] fs/proc: update vmcore to use .proc_mmap_prepare 2025-09-10
  2025-09-10 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• expand mmap_prepare functionality, port more users v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 15/16] fs/proc: update vmcore to use .proc_mmap_[prepare, complete] 2025-09-08
  2025-09-08 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• kasan: x86: arm64: KASAN tag-based mode for x86 v5 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 1 of 19 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v5 07/19] mm: x86: Untag addresses in EXECMEM_ROX related pointer arithmetic 2025-08-25
  • [PATCH v5 17/19] mm: Unpoison pcpu chunks with base address tag 2025-08-25
  2025-08-25 · Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com>
• kasan: x86: arm64: KASAN tag-based mode for x86 v4 · 2 matching patches

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

  • [PATCH v4 07/18] mm: x86: Untag addresses in EXECMEM_ROX related pointer arithmetic 2025-08-12
  • [PATCH v4 16/18] mm: Unpoison pcpu chunks with base address tag 2025-08-12
  2025-08-12 · Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com>
• kasan: x86: arm64: KASAN tag-based mode for x86 v3 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v3 13/14] mm: Unpoison pcpu chunks with base address tag 2025-04-04
  2025-04-04 · Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com>
• context_tracking,x86: Defer some IPIs until a user->kernel transition v3 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [RFC PATCH v3 14/15] x86/mm, mm/vmalloc: Defer flush_tlb_kernel_range() targeting NOHZ_FULL CPUs 2024-11-19
  2024-11-19 · Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
• page allocation tag compression v4 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v4 4/6] alloc_tag: populate memory for module tags as needed 2024-10-23
  2024-10-23 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• page allocation tag compression v3 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v3 3/5] alloc_tag: populate memory for module tags as needed 2024-10-14
  2024-10-14 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• REVIEWED · 1 review, 0 by maintainers [PATCH v5] vmalloc: Modify the alloc_vmap_area() error message for better diagnostics 2024-06-11 · Shubhang Kaushik OS <hidden>
• LANDED · 1 review, 0 by maintainers [PATCH v4] vmalloc: Modify the alloc_vmap_area() error message for better diagnostics 2024-06-10 · Shubhang Kaushik OS <hidden>
• REVIEWED · 1 review, 0 by maintainers [PATCH v3] vmalloc: Modify the alloc_vmap_area() error message for better diagnostics 2024-06-07 · Shubhang Kaushik <hidden>
• Documentation fixes for memory allocation profiling v1 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH 4/6] Documentation: mm: vmalloc: undo _noprof additions in the documentation 2024-03-26
  2024-03-26 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• Memory allocation profiling v6 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v6 30/37] mm: vmalloc: Enable memory allocation profiling 2024-03-21
  2024-03-21 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• Memory allocation profiling v5 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v5 30/37] mm: vmalloc: Enable memory allocation profiling 2024-03-06
  2024-03-06 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• PoC: convert AppArmor parser to SandBox Mode rfc · 1 matching patch

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

  • [RFC 4/5] sbm: fix up calls to dynamic memory allocators 2024-02-22
  2024-02-22 · Petr Tesarik <hidden>
• Memory allocation profiling v4 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v4 29/36] mm: vmalloc: Enable memory allocation profiling 2024-02-21
  2024-02-21 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• Memory allocation profiling v3 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v3 29/35] mm: vmalloc: Enable memory allocation profiling 2024-02-12
  2024-02-12 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• Memory allocation profiling v2 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [PATCH v2 33/39] mm: vmalloc: Enable memory allocation profiling 2023-10-24
  2023-10-24 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• context_tracking,x86: Defer some IPIs until a user->kernel transition v2 · 1 matching patch

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

  • [RFC PATCH v2 20/20] x86/mm, mm/vmalloc: Defer flush_tlb_kernel_range() targeting NOHZ_FULL CPUs 2023-07-20
  2023-07-20 · Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
• context_tracking,x86: Defer some IPIs until a user->kernel transition rfc · 1 matching patch

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

  • [RFC PATCH 14/14] x86/mm, mm/vmalloc: Defer flush_tlb_kernel_range() targeting NOHZ_FULL CPUs 2023-07-05
  2023-07-05 · Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
• treewide cleanup of random integer usage v6 · 2 matching patches

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

  • [PATCH v6 2/7] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 2 2022-10-10
  • [PATCH v6 4/7] treewide: use get_random_{u8,u16}() when possible, part 2 2022-10-10
  2022-10-10 · Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• treewide cleanup of random integer usage v5 · 2 matching patches

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

  • [PATCH v5 2/7] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 2 2022-10-08
  • [PATCH v5 4/7] treewide: use get_random_{u8,u16}() when possible, part 2 2022-10-08
  2022-10-08 · Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• treewide cleanup of random integer usage v4 · 2 matching patches

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

  • [PATCH v4 2/6] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible 2022-10-07
  • [PATCH v4 3/6] treewide: use get_random_{u8,u16}() when possible 2022-10-07
  2022-10-07 · Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• treewide cleanup of random integer usage v3 · 2 matching patches

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

  • [PATCH v3 1/5] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible 2022-10-06
  • [PATCH v3 2/5] treewide: use get_random_{u8,u16}() when possible 2022-10-06
  2022-10-06 · Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• treewide cleanup of random integer usage v2 · 2 matching patches

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

  • [PATCH v2 1/5] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible 2022-10-06
  • [PATCH v2 2/5] treewide: use get_random_{u8,u16}() when possible 2022-10-06
  2022-10-06 · Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>