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 linuxppc-dev (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COLD25d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE97d [PATCH v2 9/9] memblock: warn when freeing reserved memory before memory map is initialized
  2026-03-23 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE97d [PATCH v2 4/9] mm: move free_reserved_area() to mm/memblock.c
  2026-03-23 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE109d [PATCH 8/8] memblock: warn when freeing reserved memory before memory map is initialized
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE109d [PATCH 3/8] mm: move free_reserved_area() to mm/memblock.c
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE206d [RFC LPC2025 PATCH 4/4] mm/vmscan: Deprecate zone_reclaim_mode
  2025-12-05 · Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
• STALE303d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v3 1/7] mm/page_alloc: Add kernel-docs for free_pages()
  2025-09-03 · Vishal Moola (Oracle) <hidden>
• STALE359d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2 23/29] mm/page-alloc: remove PageMappingFlags()
  2025-07-04 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE359d REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v2 20/29] mm: convert "movable" flag in page->mapping to a page flag
  2025-07-04 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE359d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2 21/29] mm: rename PG_isolated to PG_movable_ops_isolated
  2025-07-04 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE359d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2 19/29] mm: stop storing migration_ops in page->mapping
  2025-07-04 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE359d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2 17/29] mm/page_isolation: drop __folio_test_movable() check for large folios
  2025-07-04 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE359d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2 16/29] mm: rename __PageMovable() to page_has_movable_ops()
  2025-07-04 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE359d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2 15/29] mm/migration: remove PageMovable()
  2025-07-04 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE359d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2 14/29] mm/migrate: remove __ClearPageMovable()
  2025-07-04 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE359d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2 07/29] mm/migrate: rename isolate_movable_page() to isolate_movable_ops_page()
  2025-07-04 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE359d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2 04/29] mm/page_alloc: let page freeing clear any set page type
  2025-07-04 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE367d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v1 23/29] mm/page-alloc: remove PageMappingFlags()
  2025-06-30 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE367d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v1 21/29] mm: rename PG_isolated to PG_movable_ops_isolated
  2025-06-30 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE367d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v1 20/29] mm: convert "movable" flag in page->mapping to a page flag
  2025-06-30 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE367d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v1 19/29] mm: stop storing migration_ops in page->mapping
  2025-06-30 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE367d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v1 17/29] mm/page_isolation: drop __folio_test_movable() check for large folios
  2025-06-30 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE367d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v1 15/29] mm/migration: remove PageMovable()
  2025-06-30 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE367d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v1 16/29] mm: rename __PageMovable() to page_has_movable_ops()
  2025-06-30 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE367d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v1 14/29] mm/migrate: remove __ClearPageMovable()
  2025-06-30 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE367d REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v1 07/29] mm/migrate: rename isolate_movable_page() to isolate_movable_ops_page()
  2025-06-30 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE367d REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v1 04/29] mm/page_alloc: let page freeing clear any set page type
  2025-06-30 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE370d [PATCH RFC 23/29] mm/page-alloc: remove PageMappingFlags()
  2025-06-18 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE370d [PATCH RFC 21/29] mm: rename PG_isolated to PG_movable_ops_isolated
  2025-06-18 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE370d [PATCH RFC 20/29] mm: convert "movable" flag in page->mapping to a page flag
  2025-06-18 · 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.

• STALE109d [PATCH 8/8] memblock: warn when freeing reserved memory before memory map is initialized
  2026-03-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>