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 v4 0/7] net: skb: isolate skb data area allocations into a separate bucket
  2026-09-21 07:58 · 5 replies in 7d · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COOLING5d [PATCH 0/4] file: simplify and harden cleanup handling
  2026-09-17 09:10 · 1 reply in 7d · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
  3 attestations (2 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-08-31
• Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-08-31
• Daehyeon Ko <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-08-26
• Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-26
• David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-08-26

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 5/7] mm/slab: Provide kmalloc type fallback for bucket allocations
  2026-09-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 6/7] mm/slab: Let a bucket set handle __GFP_ACCOUNT
  2026-09-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 2/7] mm/slab: Give bucket caches the alignment of the caches they mirror
  2026-09-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 1/7] mm/slab: Mark the kmem_buckets_create() context as a Context: section
  2026-09-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 3/7] mm/slab: Add kmem_buckets_destroy()
  2026-09-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COOLING5d [PATCH 4/4] file: make struct fd_prepare const and kill its err field
  2026-09-17 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d [PATCH RFC POC 25/50] file: reimplement FD_PREPARE() on the deferred fd_prepare() path
  2026-09-15 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d IN LINUX-NEXT: 18 (18M) [PATCH v7 3/5] mm: Add RCU-based VMA lookup helper that waits for writers
  2026-08-31 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• COOLING6d IN LINUX-NEXT: 18 (18M) [PATCH v7 1/5] mm: Make per-VMA locks available universally
  2026-08-31 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• COLD26d LANDED: 27 (27M) [PATCH v3] mm/secretmem: properly account locked pages
  2026-08-26 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD27d [PATCH v2 4/5] net: Divert socket allocations to SWIOTLB for nocopy TX
  2026-08-24 · Luigi Rizzo <hidden>
• COLD27d [PATCH v2 2/5] swiotlb/mm: Implement SWIOTLB nocopy page allocator
  2026-08-24 · Luigi Rizzo <hidden>
• COLD27d [PATCH v2] mm/secretmem: properly account locked pages
  2026-08-22 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies IN LINUX-NEXT: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2] mm: drop stale MAX_ORDER references
  2026-08-19 · Qi Xi <hidden>
• COLD33d [PATCH] mm: drop stale MAX_ORDER references
  2026-08-18 · Qi Xi <hidden>
• COLD31d [PATCH] mm/secretmem: properly account locked pages
  2026-08-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v6 3/5] mm: Add RCU-based VMA lookup helper that waits for writers
  2026-08-13 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v6 1/5] mm: Make per-VMA locks available universally
  2026-08-13 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• COLD41d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v5 3/5] mm: Add RCU-based VMA lookup helper that waits for writers
  2026-08-12 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• COLD41d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v5 1/5] mm: Make per-VMA locks available universally
  2026-08-12 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• COLD35d [PATCH v2 04/13] mm/secretmem: wipe secret pages before kdump
  2026-08-11 · Jan Sebastian Götte <hidden>
• COLD40d [PATCH bpf-next 1/4] mm/bpf: Add bpf_try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages kfunc
  2026-08-07 · Hui Zhu <hidden>
• COLD43d [PATCH v4 3/5] mm: Add RCU-based VMA lookup helper that waits for writers
  2026-08-06 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• COLD43d [PATCH v4 1/5] mm: Make per-VMA locks available universally
  2026-08-06 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• COLD49d [PATCH v3 3/5] mm: Add RCU-based VMA lookup helper that waits for writers
  2026-08-02 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• COLD49d [PATCH v3 1/5] mm: Make per-VMA locks available universally
  2026-08-02 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• COLD47d [PATCH] tools: Use fputc() calls in some functions
  2026-07-23 · Markus Elfring <hidden>
• COLD55d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v11] mm/page_alloc: boost watermarks on atomic allocation failure
  2026-07-20 · Qiliang Yuan <hidden>
• COLD55d [PATCH 3/3] mm: move __folio_alloc() to page_alloc.h
  2026-07-16 · Brendan Jackman <hidden>
• COLD55d [PATCH 2/3] mm, treewide: replace __folio_alloc_node() with folio_alloc_node()
  2026-07-16 · Brendan Jackman <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.

• STALE159d [PATCH 33/61] mm: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE195d Re: [PATCH v1 11/16] mm/memory: inline unmap_page_range() into __zap_vma_range()
  2026-03-11 · "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
• STALE132d IN MM [PATCH v2 3/4] mm/kfence: Use special gfp_t format specifier
  2026-03-26 · Brendan Jackman <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [syzbot] [bridge?] kernel BUG in __get_vm_area_node
  2026-05-12 · Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
• COLD35d [PATCH v2 04/13] mm/secretmem: wipe secret pages before kdump
  2026-08-11 · Jan Sebastian Götte <hidden>