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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH 00/21] binfmt_misc: transparent interpreters and PT_INTERP loader substitution
  2026-07-20 09:35 · 6 replies in 7d · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 net 0/6] xsk: fix AF_XDP multi-buffer Tx descriptor reclaim
  2026-07-19 13:56 · 1 reply in 7d · Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>
• WARM2d [PATCH bpf-next v1 0/9] Add arena argument support to kfuncs and struct_ops
  2026-07-15 22:00 · 2 replies in 7d · Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
• COOLING4d [PATCH bpf-next v5 0/8] Add the the capability to load HW RX checksum in eBPF programs
  2026-07-15 21:41 · 2 replies in 7d · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v2 0/9] binfmt_misc: bpf-backed binary type handlers
  2026-07-14 19:58 · 4 replies in 7d · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v14 00/15] barrier: Add smp_cond_load_{relaxed,acquire}_timeout()
  2026-07-14 07:31 · 1 reply in 7d · Ankur Arora <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCHSET SLOP RFC 0/6] bpf: make arena pointers first-class kfunc and struct_ops arguments
  2026-07-13 19:37 · 1 reply in 7d · Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-07-14
• Nikolay Borisov <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-23
• Jon Kohler <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Tested-by) · last on 2026-06-23
• Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-19
• Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
  1 attestation (1 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-07-15
• Aleksandr Loktionov <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-15
• Farid Zakaria <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-07-12

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on bpf (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• HOTtoday [PATCH 21/21] binfmt_misc: document loader substitution
  2026-07-20 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 19/21] binfmt_misc: let a bpf handler request loader substitution
  2026-07-20 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 15/21] binfmt_misc: document the transparent identity contract
  2026-07-20 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 12/21] binfmt_misc: let a bpf handler run the interpreter transparently
  2026-07-20 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 11/21] binfmt_misc: add a static transparent flag 'T'
  2026-07-20 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 02/21] docs, binfmt_misc: keep general usage out of the handler sections
  2026-07-20 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 net 4/6] xsk: reclaim invalid Tx descriptors in ZC batch path
  2026-07-19 · Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>
• WARM2d [PATCH bpf-next v1 2/9] bpf: Support __arena and __arena_nullable on struct_ops stub arguments
  2026-07-15 · Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
• WARM2d [PATCH bpf-next v1 1/9] bpf: Support __arena and __arena_nullable kfunc argument suffixes
  2026-07-15 · Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
• COOLING4d [PATCH bpf-next v5 8/8] selftests: net: add test for XDP_PASS skb checksum invalidation
  2026-07-15 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH bpf-next v5 1/8] netlink: specs: add XDP RX checksum capability to XDP metadata specs
  2026-07-15 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v2 8/9] binfmt_misc: let a bpf handler run the interpreter transparently
  2026-07-14 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v2 7/9] binfmt_misc: let a bpf handler choose the invocation flags per exec
  2026-07-14 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v2 6/9] binfmt_misc: let bpf handlers pass an argument to the interpreter
  2026-07-14 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v2 4/9] binfmt_misc: wire up bpf-backed 'B' entries
  2026-07-14 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v14 07/15] atomic: Add atomic_cond_read_*_timeout()
  2026-07-14 · Ankur Arora <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v2 3/6] bpf: Support __arena suffix on struct_ops stub arguments
  2026-07-13 · Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d [PATCHSET SLOP RFC 3/6] bpf: Support __arena suffix on struct_ops stub arguments
  2026-07-13 · Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d [PATCHSET SLOP RFC 1/6] bpf: Support __arena suffix for kfunc arguments
  2026-07-13 · Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v2 3/5] binfmt_misc: wire up bpf-backed 'B' entries
  2026-07-12 · Farid Zakaria <hidden>
• COOLING10d [PATCH bpf-next 12/12] Documentation/bpf: Document 16-byte kfunc return values in R0:R2
  2026-07-08 · Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
• COOLING11d IN BPF-NEXT [PATCH bpf-next v6 8/8] Documentation/bpf: Add BPF signing and enforcement doc
  2026-07-08 · Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
• COOLING12d [PATCH RFC POC 3/4] binfmt_misc: wire up bpf-backed 'B' entries
  2026-07-07 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING12d [PATCH bpf-next v5 8/8] Documentation/bpf: Add BPF signing and enforcement doc
  2026-07-07 · Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
• COOLING13d IN BPF-NEXT [PATCH] docs/bpf: Document BPF_STRICT_BUILD=0 to tolerate test build failures
  2026-07-06 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH bpf-next v4 9/9] Documentation/bpf: Add BPF signing and enforcement doc
  2026-07-06 · Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
• COOLING13d [PATCH bpf-next 2/6] bpf: Add ksock kfuncs
  2026-07-06 · Mahe Tardy <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH bpf-next v3 6/6] Documentation/bpf: Add BPF signing and enforcement doc
  2026-07-02 · Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v13 07/15] atomic: Add atomic_cond_read_*_timeout()
  2026-07-02 · Ankur Arora <hidden>
• COLD18d IN BPF-NEXT [PATCH] Documentation/bpf: make it clear that kfuncs should be non-static
  2026-06-26 · JP Kobryn <hidden>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• STALE117d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 10/10] x86/vmscape: Add cmdline vmscape=on to override attack vector controls
  2026-03-19 · Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE109d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v8 10/10] x86/vmscape: Add cmdline vmscape=on to override attack vector controls
  2026-03-24 · Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE101d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v9 10/10] x86/vmscape: Add cmdline vmscape=on to override attack vector controls
  2026-04-03 · Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE94d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v10 12/12] x86/vmscape: Add cmdline vmscape=on to override attack vector controls
  2026-04-14 · Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE72d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v11 12/12] x86/vmscape: Add cmdline vmscape=on to override attack vector controls
  2026-04-23 · Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v12 10/12] x86/vmscape: Deploy BHB clearing mitigation
  2026-06-23 · Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v12 12/12] x86/vmscape: Add cmdline vmscape=on to override attack vector controls
  2026-06-23 · Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE200d [PATCH v4 3/9] rcu: Clean up after the SRCU-fastification of RCU Tasks Trace
  2025-12-29 · "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
• STALE200d [PATCH v4 6/9] rcu: Update Requirements.rst for RCU Tasks Trace
  2025-12-29 · "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
• STALE185d [PATCH net-next v8 9/9] io_uring/zcrx: document area chunking parameter
  2026-01-09 · Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
• STALE187d [PATCH bpf-next v1 10/10] bpf,docs: Document KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS flag
  2026-01-09 · Ihor Solodrai <hidden>
• STALE180d [PATCH net-next v9 9/9] io_uring/zcrx: document area chunking parameter
  2026-01-15 · Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
• STALE180d [PATCH bpf-next v2 13/13] bpf,docs: Document KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS flag
  2026-01-16 · Ihor Solodrai <hidden>
• STALE180d LANDED [PATCH bpf-next v3 13/13] bpf,docs: Document KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS flag
  2026-01-20 · Ihor Solodrai <hidden>
• STALE160d [PATCH v2 19/25] docs: kdoc_re: make NextedMatch use KernRe
  2026-01-28 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• STALE160d [PATCH v2 21/25] tools: python: add helpers to run unit tests
  2026-01-28 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• STALE171d [PATCH v3 14/30] kdoc_parser: handle struct member macro VIRTIO_DECLARE_FEATURES(name)
  2026-01-29 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>