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 Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
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-xfs (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

STALE122d [PATCH 4/8] core: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
STALE122d [PATCH 1/8] mm: add rest_of_page() macro
2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
STALE149d [PATCH v2 4/4] folio_batch: Rename PAGEVEC_SIZE to FOLIO_BATCH_SIZE
2026-02-25 · Tal Zussman <hidden>
STALE149d [PATCH v2 3/4] folio_batch: Rename pagevec.h to folio_batch.h
2026-02-25 · Tal Zussman <hidden>
STALE173d [PATCH v2 10/13] mm: make vm_area_desc utilise vma_flags_t only
2026-01-22 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE173d [PATCH v2 02/13] mm: rename vma_flag_test/set_atomic() to vma_test/set_atomic_flag()
2026-01-22 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE173d [PATCH v2 07/13] mm: update secretmem to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
2026-01-22 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE173d [PATCH v2 09/13] mm: update all remaining mmap_prepare users to use vma_flags_t
2026-01-22 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE173d [PATCH v2 03/13] mm: add mk_vma_flags() bitmap flag macro helper
2026-01-22 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE173d [PATCH v2 01/13] mm/vma: remove __private sparse decoration from vma_flags_t
2026-01-22 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE173d [PATCH v2 05/13] mm: add basic VMA flag operation helper functions
2026-01-22 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE192d [PATCH RESEND 06/12] mm: update secretmem to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE192d [PATCH RESEND 01/12] mm: rename vma_flag_test/set_atomic() to vma_test/set_atomic_flag()
2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE192d [PATCH RESEND 09/12] mm: make vm_area_desc utilise vma_flags_t only
2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE192d [PATCH RESEND 08/12] mm: update all remaining mmap_prepare users to use vma_flags_t
2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE192d [PATCH RESEND 04/12] mm: add basic VMA flag operation helper functions
2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE192d [PATCH RESEND 02/12] mm: add mk_vma_flags() bitmap flag macro helper
2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE195d [PATCH 08/12] mm: update all remaining mmap_prepare users to use vma_flags_t
2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE195d [PATCH 04/12] mm: add basic VMA flag operation helper functions
2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE195d [PATCH 06/12] mm: update secretmem to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE195d [PATCH 09/12] mm: make vm_area_desc utilise vma_flags_t only
2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE195d [PATCH 01/12] mm: rename vma_flag_test/set_atomic() to vma_test/set_atomic_flag()
2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE195d [PATCH 02/12] mm: add mk_vma_flags() bitmap flag macro helper
2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 11 (10M) [PATCH v3 13/14] mm: Remove callers of pfn_t functionality
2025-06-19 · Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
STALE410d REVIEWED: 8 (6M) [PATCH v3 11/14] mm: Remove devmap related functions and page table bits
2025-06-19 · Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
STALE410d REVIEWED: 12 (10M) [PATCH v3 12/14] mm: Remove PFN_DEV, PFN_MAP, PFN_SPECIAL, PFN_SG_CHAIN and PFN_SG_LAST
2025-06-19 · Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
STALE410d [PATCH v3 07/14] mm: Remove redundant pXd_devmap calls
2025-06-19 · Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
STALE410d REVIEWED: 7 (6M) [PATCH v3 04/14] mm: Convert vmf_insert_mixed() from using pte_devmap to pte_special
2025-06-19 · Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
STALE410d REVIEWED: 11 (10M) [PATCH v3 03/14] mm: Remove remaining uses of PFN_DEV
2025-06-19 · Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
STALE366d LANDED [PATCH 01/10] mm: rename call_mmap/mmap_prepare to vfs_mmap/mmap_prepare
2025-06-16 · Lorenzo Stoakes <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.

STALE195d [PATCH 01/12] mm: rename vma_flag_test/set_atomic() to vma_test/set_atomic_flag()
2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE195d [PATCH 06/12] mm: update secretmem to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE195d [PATCH 09/12] mm: make vm_area_desc utilise vma_flags_t only
2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE195d [PATCH 04/12] mm: add basic VMA flag operation helper functions
2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE195d [PATCH 08/12] mm: update all remaining mmap_prepare users to use vma_flags_t
2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE192d [PATCH RESEND 04/12] mm: add basic VMA flag operation helper functions
2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE192d [PATCH RESEND 01/12] mm: rename vma_flag_test/set_atomic() to vma_test/set_atomic_flag()
2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE192d [PATCH RESEND 06/12] mm: update secretmem to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
STALE122d [PATCH 1/8] mm: add rest_of_page() macro
2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
STALE122d [PATCH 4/8] core: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>

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