memory management · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Paths

• F mm/
• F tools/mm/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 00/13] mm: convert more vm_flags_t users to vma_flags_t
  2026-07-11 18:50 · 12 replies in 7d · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 00/22] dma-mapping: Track shared DMA state through direct, pool and swiotlb paths
  2026-07-08 15:09 · 1 reply in 7d · "Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH v8] mm: pgtable: free kernel page tables via RCU to fix ptdump UAF
  2026-07-06 20:31 · 0 replies in 7d · David Carlier <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
  11 attestations (1 Acked-by, 10 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-11
• Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
  8 attestations (8 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-11
• <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-18
• Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-18
• Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-18

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 13/13] mm/mremap: convert mremap code to use vma_flags_t
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 12/13] mm/mprotect: convert mprotect code to use vma_flags_t
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 11/13] mm/mlock: convert mlock code to use vma_flags_t
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 10/13] mm/vma: convert miscellaneous uses of VMA flags in core mm
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 09/13] mm/vma: update create_init_stack_vma() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 08/13] mm: introduce vma_get_page_prot() and use it
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 07/13] mm/vma: rename vma_get_page_prot to vma_flags_to_page_prot
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 06/13] mm/vma: convert vm_pgprot_modify() to use vma_flags_t and rename
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 05/13] mm: prefer mm->def_vma_flags in mm logic
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 04/13] mm: update generic_get_unmapped_area[_topdown]() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 03/13] mm: convert __get_unmapped_area() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 02/13] mm/vma: update do_mmap() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM1d Re: [PATCH v7 16/22] dma-direct: make dma_direct_map_phys() honor DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED
  2026-07-08 · Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH v8] mm: pgtable: free kernel page tables via RCU to fix ptdump UAF
  2026-07-06 · David Carlier <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 13/13] mm/mremap: convert mremap code to use vma_flags_t
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 12/13] mm/mprotect: convert mprotect code to use vma_flags_t
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 11/13] mm/mlock: convert mlock code to use vma_flags_t
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 10/13] mm/vma: convert miscellaneous uses of VMA flags in core mm
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 09/13] mm/vma: update create_init_stack_vma() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 08/13] mm: introduce vma_get_page_prot() and use it
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 06/13] mm/vma: convert vm_pgprot_modify() to use vma_flags_t and rename
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 04/13] mm: update generic_get_unmapped_area[_topdown]() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 05/13] mm: prefer mm->def_vma_flags in mm logic
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 07/13] mm/vma: rename vma_get_page_prot to vma_flags_to_page_prot
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 03/13] mm: convert __get_unmapped_area() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 02/13] mm/vma: update do_mmap() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD18d [PATCH v4 1/3] mm, swap: make SWAPFILE_CLUSTER runtime
  2026-06-19 · "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
• COOLING10d [PATCH v15 7/9] arm64: introduce copy_mc_to_kernel() implementation
  2026-06-18 · Ruidong Tian <hidden>
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v15 5/9] mm/hwpoison: return -EFAULT when copy fail in copy_mc_[user]_highpage()
  2026-06-18 · Ruidong Tian <hidden>
• COLD23d [PATCH v3 1/3] mm, swap: make SWAPFILE_CLUSTER runtime
  2026-06-12 · "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• STALE73d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v2 6/6] mm: change to return bool for the MMU notifier's young flag check
  2026-03-21 · Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> · 1 Reviewed-by

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.

• STALE179d [PATCH] mm: Add basic tests for lazy_mmu - fix for powerpc
  2025-12-17 · Kevin Brodsky <hidden>
• STALE185d [PATCH 4/4] mm: remove ARCH_NEEDS_KMAP_HIGH_GET
  2025-12-19 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE190d [PATCH 22/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of nodes, zones and memory map
  2025-12-28 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE190d [PATCH 23/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model
  2025-12-28 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE190d [PATCH 26/28] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation
  2025-12-28 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE186d [PATCH v1 5/8] mm: Add helpers to create device private entries from struct pages
  2025-12-31 · Jordan Niethe <hidden>
• STALE186d [PATCH v1 6/8] mm/util: Add flag to track device private pages in page snapshots
  2025-12-31 · Jordan Niethe <hidden>
• STALE186d [PATCH v1 7/8] mm/hmm: Add flag to track device private pages
  2025-12-31 · Jordan Niethe <hidden>
• STALE142d [PATCH v2 23/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model
  2026-01-02 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE142d [PATCH v2 26/28] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation
  2026-01-02 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>