Memory-management patch review

Memory-management (MM) patches are notoriously difficult to get merged into the mainline kernel. They are subjected to a high degree of review because this is an area where it is easy to get things wrong. Or, at least, that is how it used to be. The final memory-management session at the 2017 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit was concerned with patch review in the MM subsystem — or the lack of it.

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