News [LWN.net] [$] Managing pages outside of the direct map

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When Brendan Jackman proposed a session for the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, his topic was "a pagetable library for the kernel". During the actual memory-management-track session, though, he stated that the idea had "fizzled" and he was going to cover related topics instead. What resulted was a session on ways to efficiently manage pages that are not present in the kernel's direct map.

Source: https://lwn.net/Articles/1072367/

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