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 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-rt-users (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• DORMANTno replies [ANNOUNCE] 6.6.129-rt70
  2026-03-06 · Clark Williams <hidden>
• STALE904d [ANNOUNCE] 5.10.204-rt100
  2023-12-22 · Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <hidden>
• STALE1009d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH RT 08/12] mm/page_alloc: Use write_seqlock_irqsave() instead write_seqlock() + local_irq_save().
  2023-10-18 · Joseph Salisbury <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [ANNOUNCE] v6.4-rt6
  2023-06-26 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• DORMANTno replies [ANNOUNCE] 5.10.180-rt89
  2023-06-18 · Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <hidden>
• STALE1130d [PATCH RT 2/3] Revert "mm/page_alloc: fix potential deadlock on zonelist_update_seqseqlock"
  2023-06-09 · Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <hidden>
• STALE1144d [ANNOUNCE] 5.10.180-rt88
  2023-05-30 · Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <hidden>
• STALE1379d [ANNOUNCE] 4.9.312-rt193
  2022-05-10 · Mark Gross <markgross@kernel.org>
• STALE1576d Re: [PATCH 0/2] mm/page_alloc: Remote per-cpu lists drain support
  2022-03-10 · Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
• STALE1576d Re: [PATCH 0/2] mm/page_alloc: Remote per-cpu lists drain support
  2022-02-09 · Nicolas Saenz Julienne <hidden>
• STALE1576d [PATCH 1/2] mm/page_alloc: Access lists in 'struct per_cpu_pages' indirectly
  2022-02-08 · Nicolas Saenz Julienne <hidden>
• STALE1576d [PATCH 2/2] mm/page_alloc: Add remote draining support to per-cpu lists
  2022-02-08 · Nicolas Saenz Julienne <hidden>
• STALE1683d Re: [mm/page_alloc] 5541e53659: BUG:spinlock_bad_magic_on_CPU
  2021-11-04 · Nicolas Saenz Julienne <hidden>
• STALE1683d [PATCH v2 3/3] mm/page_alloc: Remotely drain per-cpu lists
  2021-11-03 · Nicolas Saenz Julienne <hidden>
• STALE1683d [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/page_alloc: Convert per-cpu lists' local locks to per-cpu spin locks
  2021-11-03 · Nicolas Saenz Julienne <hidden>
• STALE1683d [PATCH v2 1/3] mm/page_alloc: Don't pass pfn to free_unref_page_commit()
  2021-11-03 · Nicolas Saenz Julienne <hidden>
• STALE1737d [RFC 3/3] mm/page_alloc: Add remote draining support to per-cpu lists
  2021-10-08 · Nicolas Saenz Julienne <hidden>
• STALE1737d [RFC 2/3] mm/page_alloc: Access lists in 'struct per_cpu_pages' indirectly
  2021-10-08 · Nicolas Saenz Julienne <hidden>
• STALE1737d [RFC 1/3] mm/page_alloc: Simplify __rmqueue_pcplist()'s arguments
  2021-10-08 · Nicolas Saenz Julienne <hidden>
• STALE1761d [PATCH 5/6] mm/page_alloc: Allow remote per-cpu page list draining
  2021-09-21 · Nicolas Saenz Julienne <hidden>
• STALE1761d [PATCH 4/6] mm/page_alloc: Introduce alternative per-cpu list locking
  2021-09-21 · Nicolas Saenz Julienne <hidden>
• STALE1899d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 9/9] mm/page_alloc: Update PGFREE outside the zone lock in __free_pages_ok
  2021-05-12 · Mel Gorman <hidden>
• STALE1899d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 8/9] mm/page_alloc: Avoid conflating IRQs disabled with zone->lock
  2021-05-12 · Mel Gorman <hidden>
• STALE1899d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 7/9] mm/page_alloc: Explicitly acquire the zone lock in __free_pages_ok
  2021-05-12 · Mel Gorman <hidden>
• STALE1899d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6/9] mm/page_alloc: Reduce duration that IRQs are disabled for VM counters
  2021-05-12 · Mel Gorman <hidden>
• STALE1899d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 5/9] mm/page_alloc: Batch the accounting updates in the bulk allocator
  2021-05-12 · Mel Gorman <hidden>
• STALE1899d [PATCH 3/9] mm/vmstat: Convert NUMA statistics to basic NUMA counters
  2021-05-12 · Mel Gorman <hidden>
• STALE1899d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 2/9] mm/page_alloc: Convert per-cpu list protection to local_lock
  2021-05-12 · Mel Gorman <hidden>
• STALE1899d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 1/9] mm/page_alloc: Split per cpu page lists and zone stats
  2021-05-12 · Mel Gorman <hidden>
• STALE1918d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 9/9] mm/page_alloc: Update PGFREE outside the zone lock in __free_pages_ok
  2021-04-22 · Mel Gorman <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.

• DORMANTno replies [ANNOUNCE] 6.6.129-rt70
  2026-03-06 · Clark Williams <hidden>