memory management · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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• F mm/
• F tools/mm/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 00/40] mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL
  2026-09-17 16:43 · 27 replies in 7d · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
  4 attestations (4 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-17
• Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-17
• Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-17

Recent patches

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

• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 40/40] mm/vma: introduce and use vma[_flags]_can_gup()
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 39/40] mm/huge_memory: remove vma_is_special_huge()
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 36/40] mm: avoid use of VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS in migrate_vma_setup()
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 35/40] mm: eliminate VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS check in lru_gen_look_around()
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 34/40] mm: eliminate VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS usage when hugetlb explicitly tested
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 33/40] mm/madvise: use predicates for madvise(..., MADV_DOFORK)
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 32/40] mm/uffd: use predicates for userfaultfd checks
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 31/40] mm/vma: introduce vma[_flags]_is_persistent()
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 30/40] mm/madvise: update is_valid_guard_vma() to use vma_can_merge()
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 29/40] mm: drop some redundant checks around hugetlb VMAs
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT: 11 (11M) [PATCH v3 28/40] mm: rename is_vm_hugetlb_page() to vma_is_hugetlb()
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 27/40] mm: remove hugetlb_inline.h
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 26/40] mm: remove VMA_IO_BIT check in vma[_flags]_is_kernel_owned()
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 25/40] mm/vma: enforce that only kernel-owned mappings may set VMA_IO_BIT
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 24/40] mm/mlock: eliminate weird VMA_IO_BIT abuse and simplify
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 23/40] mm/mlock: clear VMA_LOCKED_MASK over mmap callback
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 21/40] mm/gup: error out early on !VMA_MAYREAD_BIT VMAs
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 17/40] mm/vma: add and use vma_[flags]_is_fixed_mapping
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 16/40] mm/vma: only allow mmap to clear VMA_MAYWRITE_BIT if kernel-owned
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 08/40] mm: add mmap action for discontiguous kernel page mapping
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 07/40] mm/vma: tidy up map kernel pages enum values
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 06/40] mm: make map_kernel_pages_[prepare,complete] internal and unexported
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 05/40] mm/vma: ensure mmap_prepare doesn't set actions on a mergeable vma
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 04/40] mm: consistently validate VMA state after mmap[_prepare] hooks
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 03/40] mm/vma: introduce and use vma_[flags_]can_merge()
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 02/40] mm/vma: predicate setting mmap_prepare VMA fields on new vma alloc
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 01/40] mm/vma: fix mmap_prepare file handling, remove file_doesnt_need_get
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH v2 40/40] mm/vma: introduce and use vma[_flags]_can_gup()
  2026-09-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH v2 39/40] mm/huge_memory: remove vma_is_special_huge()
  2026-09-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH v2 36/40] mm: avoid use of VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS in migrate_vma_setup()
  2026-09-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>