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    Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm · 27bc50fc
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
    
     - Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in
       linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any
       negative reports (or any positive ones, come to that).
    
     - Also the Maple Tree from Liam Howlett. An overlapping range-based
       tree for vmas. It it apparently slightly more efficient in its own
       right, but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock
       contention.
    
       Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which
       could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees.
    
       Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat
       at [1]. This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately
       timed vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up.
    
     - Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses
       clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down...
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