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| May 15, 2026 | Controlling memory-management with BPF |
| May 15, 2026 | HugeTLB preservation over live update |
| May 14, 2026 | Policy groups for memory management |
| May 14, 2026 | Buffered atomic writes, writethrough, and more |
| May 14, 2026 | Keeping COWs in context (a.k.a. anonymous reverse mapping) |
| May 13, 2026 | Managing pages outside of the direct map |
| May 13, 2026 | Revisiting mshare |
| May 12, 2026 | Using dma-bufs for read and write operations |
| May 12, 2026 | Scaling transparent huge pages to 1GB |
| May 11, 2026 | Providing 64KB base pages with 4KB kernels, two different ways |
| May 8, 2026 | A 2026 DAMON update |
| May 7, 2026 | A new era for memory-management maintainership |
| May 5, 2026 | Hardware-assisted Arm VMs for s390 |
| April 30, 2026 | Restartable sequences, TCMalloc, and Hyrum's Law |
| April 27, 2026 | The rest of the 7.1 merge window |
| April 24, 2026 | On pages and folios |
| April 23, 2026 | Famfs, FUSE, and BPF |
| April 17, 2026 | The 7.0 scheduler regression that wasn't |
| April 16, 2026 | The first half of the 7.1 merge window |
| April 13, 2026 | Development statistics for the 7.0 kernel |
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