memory mapping · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
• M Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
• M Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• R Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
• R Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
• R Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>

Paths

• F include/trace/events/mmap.h
• F fs/proc/task_mmu.c
• F fs/proc/task_nommu.c
• F mm/interval_tree.c
• F mm/mincore.c
• F mm/mlock.c
• F mm/mmap.c
• F mm/mprotect.c
• F mm/mremap.c
• F mm/mseal.c
• F mm/msync.c
• F mm/nommu.c
• F mm/vma.c
• F mm/vma.h
• F mm/vma_exec.c
• F mm/vma_init.c
• F mm/vma_internal.h
• F tools/testing/selftests/mm/merge.c
• F tools/testing/vma/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-s390 (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COLD21d Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] mm: reduce mmap_lock contention and improve page fault performance
  2026-05-17 · Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
• COLD45d [PATCH v2 1/6] mm: Make lazy MMU mode context-aware
  2026-04-15 · Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 28 (26M) [PATCH v12 06/16] mm: introduce AS_NO_DIRECT_MAP
  2026-04-10 · Kalyazin, Nikita <hidden>
• STALE72d [PATCH v6 5/6] mm: use vma_start_write_killable() in process_vma_walk_lock()
  2026-03-27 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE72d [PATCH v6 4/6] mm/vma: use vma_start_write_killable() in vma operations
  2026-03-27 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE72d [PATCH v6 2/6] mm: use vma_start_write_killable() in mm syscalls
  2026-03-27 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE72d REVIEWED: 6 (4M) [PATCH v6 1/6] mm/vma: cleanup error handling path in vma_expand()
  2026-03-27 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE65d [v3 13/24] mm: proc: handle split_huge_pmd failure in pagemap_scan
  2026-03-27 · Usama Arif <hidden>
• STALE65d [v3 10/24] mm: thp: handle split failure in mremap move_page_tables()
  2026-03-27 · Usama Arif <hidden>
• STALE65d [v3 07/24] mm: thp: retry on split failure in change_pmd_range()
  2026-03-27 · Usama Arif <hidden>
• STALE65d [v3 02/24] mm: thp: propagate split failure from vma_adjust_trans_huge()
  2026-03-27 · Usama Arif <hidden>
• STALE77d [PATCH v5 5/6] mm: use vma_start_write_killable() in process_vma_walk_lock()
  2026-03-26 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE77d [PATCH v5 4/6] mm/vma: use vma_start_write_killable() in vma operations
  2026-03-26 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE77d [PATCH v5 2/6] mm: use vma_start_write_killable() in mm syscalls
  2026-03-26 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE77d REVIEWED: 6 (4M) [PATCH v5 1/6] mm/vma: cleanup error handling path in vma_expand()
  2026-03-26 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• COLD60d [RFC PATCH 1/2] mm: make lazy MMU mode context-aware
  2026-03-25 · Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE81d [PATCH v4 4/4] mm: use vma_start_write_killable() in process_vma_walk_lock()
  2026-03-22 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE81d [PATCH v4 2/4] mm: replace vma_start_write() with vma_start_write_killable()
  2026-03-22 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE81d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v4 1/4] mm/vma: cleanup error handling path in vma_expand()
  2026-03-22 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE78d [PATCH v4 25/25] mm: simplify VMA flag tests of excluded flags
  2026-03-20 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE78d [PATCH v4 24/25] mm/vma: convert __mmap_region() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-03-20 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE78d [PATCH v4 23/25] mm/vma: convert vma_modify_flags[_uffd]() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-03-20 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE78d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v4 21/25] mm/vma: convert as much as we can in mm/vma.c to vma_flags_t
  2026-03-20 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE78d [PATCH v4 20/25] tools/testing/vma: update VMA tests to test vma_clear_flags[_mask]()
  2026-03-20 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE78d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v4 19/25] mm/vma: introduce vma_clear_flags[_mask]()
  2026-03-20 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE78d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v4 17/25] mm: convert do_brk_flags() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-03-20 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE78d [PATCH v4 16/25] tools/testing/vma: test vma_flags_count,vma[_flags]_test_single_mask
  2026-03-20 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE78d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v4 15/25] mm: introduce vma_flags_count() and vma[_flags]_test_single_mask()
  2026-03-20 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE78d [PATCH v4 14/25] tools/testing/vma: update VMA flag tests to test vma_test[_any_mask]()
  2026-03-20 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE78d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v4 13/25] mm/vma: introduce vma_test[_any[_mask]](), and make inlining consistent
  2026-03-20 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>

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.

• STALE95d [RFC v2 02/21] mm: thp: propagate split failure from vma_adjust_trans_huge()
  2026-02-26 · Usama Arif <hidden>
• STALE95d [RFC v2 07/21] mm: thp: retry on split failure in change_pmd_range()
  2026-02-26 · Usama Arif <hidden>
• STALE95d [RFC v2 10/21] mm: thp: handle split failure in mremap move_page_tables()
  2026-02-26 · Usama Arif <hidden>
• STALE95d Re: [RFC v2 13/21] mm: huge_mm: Make sure all split_huge_pmd calls are checked
  2026-02-27 · Usama Arif <hidden>
• STALE92d [PATCH 01/20] mm/vma: add vma_flags_empty(), vma_flags_and(), vma_flags_diff_pair()
  2026-03-12 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE92d [PATCH 03/20] mm/vma: add further vma_flags_t unions
  2026-03-12 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE92d [PATCH 04/20] tools/testing/vma: convert bulk of test code to vma_flags_t
  2026-03-12 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE92d [PATCH 05/20] mm/vma: use new VMA flags for sticky flags logic
  2026-03-12 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE92d [PATCH 06/20] tools/testing/vma: fix VMA flag tests
  2026-03-12 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE92d [PATCH 07/20] mm/vma: add append_vma_flags() helper
  2026-03-12 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>