tracing · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• M Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• R Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/tracepoint.rst
• F Documentation/trace/*
• F fs/tracefs/
• F include/linux/trace*.h
• F include/trace/
• F kernel/trace/
• F kernel/tracepoint.c
• F scripts/tracing/
• F scripts/tracepoint-update.c
• F tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 28 patches in this subsystem on gfs2, ordered by date desc.

• STALE100d [PATCH 32/53] ext4: move dcache modifying code out of __ext4_link()
  2026-03-13 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE100d [PATCH 34/53] tracefs: stop using d_add().
  2026-03-13 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE80d [PATCH 15/61] trace: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH 06/11] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper
  2026-01-08 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE179d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH 06/11] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH 06/11] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper
  2025-12-23 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE194d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 06/10] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper
  2025-12-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE221d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 12/16] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper
  2025-11-20 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE223d [PATCH 10/14] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper
  2025-11-14 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE674d [RFC 7/7] rv: add dlm compatible lock state kernel verifier
  2024-08-27 · Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>
• STALE674d [RFC 6/7] dlm: add more tracepoints for DLM kernel verifier
  2024-08-27 · Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>
• STALE674d [RFC 5/7] dlm: add lkb rv mode to ast tracepoint
  2024-08-27 · Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>
• STALE674d [RFC 4/7] dlm: add our_nodeid to tracepoints
  2024-08-27 · Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v6.9-rc1 05/10] dlm: remove lkb from ast bast tracepoints
  2024-03-28 · Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>
• STALE844d [RFC v6.8-rc6 2/7] dlm: remove lkb from ast bast tracepoints
  2024-03-08 · Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>
• STALE868d LANDED [PATCH v3 47/47] filelock: split leases out of struct file_lock
  2024-01-31 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE868d LANDED [PATCH v3 35/47] afs: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  2024-01-31 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE868d LANDED [PATCH v3 26/47] filelock: convert fl_blocker to file_lock_core
  2024-01-31 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE868d LANDED [PATCH v3 18/47] filelock: have fs/locks.c deal with file_lock_core directly
  2024-01-31 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE868d LANDED [PATCH v3 02/47] filelock: rename some fields in tracepoints
  2024-01-31 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE891d [PATCH v2 41/41] filelock: split leases out of struct file_lock
  2024-01-25 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE891d [PATCH v2 30/41] afs: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  2024-01-25 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE891d [PATCH v2 21/41] filelock: convert fl_blocker to file_lock_core
  2024-01-25 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE891d [PATCH v2 12/41] filelock: have fs/locks.c deal with file_lock_core directly
  2024-01-25 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE891d [PATCH v2 01/41] filelock: rename some fields in tracepoints
  2024-01-25 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE900d [PATCH 20/20] filelock: split leases out of struct file_lock
  2024-01-16 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE900d [PATCH 14/20] filelock: convert fl_blocker to file_lock_core
  2024-01-16 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE900d [PATCH 04/20] filelock: fixups after the coccinelle changes
  2024-01-16 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

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.

• STALE179d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH 06/11] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 3 Reviewed-by
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH 06/11] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper
  2026-01-08 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 3 Reviewed-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.

• STALE100d [PATCH 34/53] tracefs: stop using d_add().
  2026-03-13 · NeilBrown <hidden>