memory management - core · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
• M David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
• R Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• R Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
• R Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
• R Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• R Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• R Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/folio_batch.h
• F include/linux/gfp.h
• F include/linux/gfp_types.h
• F include/linux/highmem.h
• F include/linux/leafops.h
• F include/linux/memory.h
• F include/linux/mm.h
• F include/linux/mm_*.h
• F include/linux/mmzone.h
• F include/linux/mmdebug.h
• F include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
• F include/linux/pagewalk.h
• F include/linux/pgalloc.h
• F include/linux/pgtable.h
• F include/linux/ptdump.h
• F include/linux/vmpressure.h
• F include/linux/vmstat.h
• F fs/proc/meminfo.c
• F kernel/fork.c
• F mm/Kconfig
• F mm/debug.c
• F mm/folio-compat.c
• F mm/highmem.c
• F mm/init-mm.c
• F mm/internal.h
• F mm/maccess.c
• F mm/memory.c
• F mm/mmu_notifier.c
• F mm/mmzone.c
• F mm/pagewalk.c
• F mm/pgtable-generic.c
• F mm/ptdump.c
• F mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
• F mm/sparse.c
• F mm/util.c
• F mm/vmpressure.c
• F mm/vmstat.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• [RFC PATCH v1 5/9] uaccess: Switch to copy_{to/from}_user_partial() when relevant
  2026-04-27 · "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v18 27/42] dept: assign dept map to mmu notifier invalidation synchronization
  2025-12-05 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• [PATCH v18 01/42] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2025-12-05 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• [PATCH 1/2] mm: call back alloc_pages_bulk_list since it is useful
  2025-10-14 · zhaoyang.huang <hidden>
• [PATCH v17 31/47] dept: assign dept map to mmu notifier invalidation synchronization
  2025-10-02 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• [PATCH v17 02/47] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2025-10-02 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• [RFC PATCH V3 34/43] rv64ilp32_abi: mm: Adapt vm_flags_t struct
  2025-03-25 · guoren@kernel.org
• [RFC PATCH V3 32/43] rv64ilp32_abi: mm: Remove _folio_nr_pages
  2025-03-25 · guoren@kernel.org
• [PATCH 2/2] mm: dmabuf_direct_io: Fix memory statistics error for dmabuf allocated memory with direct_io support
  2024-07-10 · Lei Liu <hidden>
• [PATCH v6 5/6] mm/gup: remove vmas parameter from pin_user_pages()
  2023-05-17 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• [PATCH v5 5/6] mm/gup: remove vmas parameter from pin_user_pages()
  2023-05-14 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• [PATCH v4 5/6] mm/gup: remove vmas parameter from pin_user_pages()
  2023-04-18 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• [PATCH v3 6/7] mm/gup: remove vmas parameter from pin_user_pages()
  2023-04-15 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• [PATCH v2 6/7] mm/gup: remove vmas parameter from pin_user_pages()
  2023-04-15 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• [PATCH 6/7] mm/gup: remove vmas parameter from pin_user_pages()
  2023-04-14 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• [PATCH v2 5/6] mm: introduce mod_vm_flags_nolock and use it in untrack_pfn
  2023-01-25 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• [PATCH v2 6/6] mm: export dump_mm()
  2023-01-25 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• [PATCH v2 2/6] mm: replace VM_LOCKED_CLEAR_MASK with VM_LOCKED_MASK
  2023-01-25 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• [PATCH v2 1/6] mm: introduce vma->vm_flags modifier functions
  2023-01-25 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• [PATCH v2 3/6] mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls
  2023-01-25 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• [PATCH mm-unstable v1 20/20] mm: rename FOLL_FORCE to FOLL_PTRACE
  2022-11-16 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• [PATCH mm-unstable v1 09/20] mm/gup: reliable R/O long-term pinning in COW mappings
  2022-11-16 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• [PATCH mm-unstable v1 08/20] mm: extend FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE support to anything in a COW mapping
  2022-11-16 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• [PATCH mm-unstable v1 07/20] mm: don't call vm_ops->huge_fault() in wp_huge_pmd()/wp_huge_pud() for private mappings
  2022-11-16 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• [PATCH mm-unstable v1 06/20] mm: rework handling in do_wp_page() based on private vs. shared mappings
  2022-11-16 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• [PATCH mm-unstable v1 05/20] mm: add early FAULT_FLAG_WRITE consistency checks
  2022-11-16 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• [PATCH mm-unstable v1 04/20] mm: add early FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE consistency checks
  2022-11-16 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• [PATCH RFC 09/19] mm/gup: reliable R/O long-term pinning in COW mappings
  2022-11-07 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• [PATCH RFC 08/19] mm: extend FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE support to anything in a COW mapping
  2022-11-07 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• [PATCH RFC 07/19] mm: don't call vm_ops->huge_fault() in wp_huge_pmd()/wp_huge_pud() for private mappings
  2022-11-07 · David Hildenbrand <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.

• [PATCH v18 27/42] dept: assign dept map to mmu notifier invalidation synchronization
  2025-12-05 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>