diff --git a/dev-libs/memkind/Manifest b/dev-libs/memkind/Manifest
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+DIST memkind-1.11.0.tar.gz 1072455 BLAKE2B 2de2cf053687ba2150f694e8c4143eeca74fc377feee2b6892067b661d8c58d7d5fcacb021fc92a47dad27f52aa4cbc6408cfede3141ab1f8ae81147b49aa6a7 SHA512 0b5bde35b3565c730fa954aebfe2ccbecd1e120c920d05acdbc0a74914731a90aeef8d57101f1f47bd35fd310bc143fa517bc871b32e592b8412384ff652fc05
diff --git a/dev-libs/memkind/memkind-1.11.0.ebuild b/dev-libs/memkind/memkind-1.11.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit autotools linux-info
+
+DESCRIPTION="user extensible heap manager built on top of jemalloc"
+HOMEPAGE="https://memkind.github.io/memkind"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/memkind/memkind/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE="+heap-manager openmp secure +tls" #daxctl
+#RESTRICT="test"
+
+DEPEND="
+	sys-block/ndctl
+	sys-process/numactl
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	eautoreconf
+	cd jemalloc && eautoreconf
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	local myconf=(
+		--disable-silent-rules
+		--enable-shared
+		--enable-static
+		--enable-daxctl
+		$(use_enable heap-manager)
+		$(use_enable openmp)
+		$(use_enable secure)
+		$(use_enable tls)
+	)
+	econf "${myconf[@]}"
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	addwrite /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
+	echo 3000 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
+	emake check
+}
diff --git a/dev-libs/memkind/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/memkind/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<description>co-maintainers welcome</description>
+		<email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
+		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">memkind/memkind</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+	<use>
+		<flag name="heap-manager">Allow switching allocator at runtime</flag>
+		<flag name="secure">Build libraries with security enhancements</flag>
+		<flag name="tls">Enable thread local storage</flag>
+	</use>
+</pkgmetadata>