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Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Pranjal Shrivastava <praan@google.com>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-10
• Samiullah Khawaja <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-10
• Laurence Oberman <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-01

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 12/20] docs: liveupdate: Add documentation for VFIO PCI
  2026-07-14 · Vipin Sharma <hidden>
• COOLING7d [RFC PATCH 2/4] panic: run the pre kdump list before crash kexec
  2026-07-11 · Bradley Morgan <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v7 12/12] Documentation: PCI: Add documentation for Live Update
  2026-07-10 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v7 05/12] PCI: liveupdate: Keep bus numbers constant during Live Update
  2026-07-10 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v7 01/12] PCI: liveupdate: Set up FLB handler for the PCI core
  2026-07-10 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
• COOLING10d [RFC PATCH 13/14] Documentation: add lazy sysfs initialisation and device_sysfs_entry docs
  2026-07-02 · Pavol Sakac <hidden>
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 3/5] driver core: async device shutdown infrastructure
  2026-07-01 · David Jeffery <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 3/4] riscv: vmcore_info: export riscv arch-specific struct offsets to vmcoreinfo
  2026-06-22 · Pnina Feder <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 4/4] mips: vmcore_info: export mips arch-specific struct offsets to vmcoreinfo
  2026-06-22 · Pnina Feder <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 2/4] vmcoreinfo: export task and mm struct offsets to vmcoreinfo
  2026-06-22 · Pnina Feder <hidden>
• COLD31d [PATCH v3 7/9] docs: add documentation for guest_memfd preservation via LUO
  2026-06-22 · Tarun Sahu <hidden>
• COLD38d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 3/5] driver core: async device shutdown infrastructure
  2026-06-16 · David Jeffery <hidden>
• COLD36d REVIEWED: 12 (11M) [PATCH v16 10/10] riscv: kexec_file: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
  2026-06-08 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COLD36d REVIEWED: 33 (32M) [PATCH v16 09/10] arm64: kexec_file: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
  2026-06-08 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [RFC PATCH v2 08/10] docs: add documentation for guest_memfd preservation via LUO
  2026-06-05 · Tarun Sahu <hidden>
• COLD47d [PATCH] docs: memfd_preservation: fix rendering of ABI documentation
  2026-06-05 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
• COLD41d [RFC v1 7/9] kho: decouple radix tree compatibility from global KHO version
  2026-06-05 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• COLD41d [RFC v1 5/9] kho: move kho_block.h to kho/block.h
  2026-06-05 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• COLD41d [RFC v1 4/9] kho: split vmalloc headers out of kexec_handover.h
  2026-06-05 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• COLD41d [RFC v1 3/9] kho: split out vmalloc preservation into kho_vmalloc.c
  2026-06-05 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• COLD41d [RFC v1 2/9] kho: split radix tree headers out of kexec_handover.h
  2026-06-05 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• COLD41d [RFC v1 1/9] kho: split out radix tree tracker into kho_radix.c
  2026-06-05 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• COLD50d [PATCH v7 07/13] kho: add support for linked-block serialization
  2026-06-03 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v6.1 07/13] kho: add support for linked-block serialization
  2026-06-03 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• COLD51d [PATCH v6 07/13] kho: add support for linked-block serialization
  2026-06-03 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• COLD52d [PATCH v5 07/13] kho: add support for linked-block serialization
  2026-06-02 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• COLD52d REVIEWED: 12 (11M) [PATCH v15 22/23] riscv: kexec_file: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
  2026-06-01 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COLD52d REVIEWED: 33 (32M) [PATCH v15 21/23] arm64: kexec_file: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
  2026-06-01 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COLD51d [PATCH v4 07/13] kho: add support for linked-block serialization
  2026-05-30 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• COLD56d [PATCH v3 05/11] kho: add support for linked-block serialization
  2026-05-29 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>

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.

• STALE178d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v6 4/4] kho: document kexec-metadata tracking feature
  2026-01-27 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE137d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v7 6/6] kho: document kexec-metadata tracking feature
  2026-03-06 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE106d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v8 2/6] kho: rename fdt parameter to blob in kho_add/remove_subtree()
  2026-03-09 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE106d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v8 6/6] kho: document kexec-metadata tracking feature
  2026-03-09 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> · 1 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.

• STALE192d [PATCH v5 1/2] kho: Adopt radix tree for preserved memory tracking
  2026-01-13 · Jason Miu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v5 2/2] kho: Remove finalize state and clients
  2026-01-13 · Jason Miu <hidden>
• STALE189d [PATCH v6 1/2] kho: Adopt radix tree for preserved memory tracking
  2026-01-15 · Jason Miu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v6 2/2] kho: Remove finalize state and clients
  2026-01-15 · Jason Miu <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: add ABI documentation for /sys/kernel/hwerr_recovery_stats/
  2026-02-02 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE169d [PATCH v3 3/3] riscv: kexec: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
  2026-02-04 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE169d [PATCH v3 2/3] arm64: kexec: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
  2026-02-04 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE162d [PATCH v4 3/3] riscv: kexec: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
  2026-02-09 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE148d [PATCH v6 5/5] riscv: kexec: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
  2026-02-24 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE93d [PATCH v3 05/24] docs: liveupdate: Add documentation for PCI
  2026-03-23 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>