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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• COOLING5d [PATCH v5 0/9] Bug fixes and enhancements for kdump LUKS support
  2026-09-09 00:37 · 2 replies in 7d · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH] kho: docs: fix scratch_phys debugfs cross-reference
  2026-09-09 10:31 · 0 replies in 7d · Kamalesh Babulal <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v1 0/4] x86/vmware: Preserve panic diagnostics in vmware.log
  2026-09-08 18:07 · 1 reply in 7d · Zack Rusin <zack.rusin@broadcom.com>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v2 0/4] kho: rename "scratch" to "bootmem"
  2026-09-08 15:57 · 1 reply in 7d · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Sourabh Jain <hidden>
  5 attestations (2 Reported-by, 3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-09
• Laurence Oberman <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-02

Recent patches

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

• COOLING5d [PATCH] kho: docs: fix scratch_phys debugfs cross-reference
  2026-09-09 · Kamalesh Babulal <hidden>
• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 9/9] Documentation: kdump: Add arm64 and ppc64le to encrypted dump target support list
  2026-09-09 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 8/9] crash_dump: Disallow configfs/crash_dm_crypt_key/reuse if crash hotplug supported
  2026-09-09 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v1 2/4] x86/vmware: Add the vmware_record_panic_msg sysctl
  2026-09-08 · Zack Rusin <zack.rusin@broadcom.com>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v2 4/4] kho: rename kho_scratch= commandline parameter to kho_bootmem=
  2026-09-08 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 14/14] mm/page-flags: remove PG_private
  2026-09-08 · Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
• COOLING11d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6/9] driver core: async device shutdown infrastructure
  2026-09-02 · David Jeffery <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v2 14/14] mm/page-flags: remove PG_private
  2026-08-31 · Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 9/9] Documentation: kdump: Add arm64 and ppc64le to encrypted dump target support list
  2026-08-28 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v4 8/9] crash_dump: Disallow configfs/crash_dm_crypt_key/reuse if crash hotplug supported
  2026-08-28 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• COLD17d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6/9] driver core: async device shutdown infrastructure
  2026-08-21 · David Jeffery <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH v2 05/13] security/keys: wipe key payloads before kdump
  2026-08-11 · Jan Sebastian Götte <hidden>
• COLD27d [PATCH 4/4] kho: rename kho_scratch= commandline parameter to kho_bootmem=
  2026-08-11 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
• COLD27d [PATCH 3/4] kho: rename KHO scratch to KHO bootmem
  2026-08-11 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
• COOLING11d [PATCH RFC 14/14] mm/page-flags: remove PG_private
  2026-08-01 · Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
• COLD27d [PATCH v3 10/10] Documentation: kdump: Add arm64 and ppc64le to encrypted dump target support list
  2026-07-29 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• COLD27d [PATCH v3 09/10] crash_dump: Disallow configfs/crash_dm_crypt_key/reuse if crash hotplug supported
  2026-07-29 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v8 12/12] Documentation: PCI: Add documentation for Live Update
  2026-07-28 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 7 (6M) [PATCH v8 05/12] PCI: liveupdate: Preserve bus numbers during Live Update
  2026-07-28 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v8 01/12] PCI: liveupdate: Set up FLB handler for the PCI core
  2026-07-28 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v4 09/11] docs: liveupdate: Add documentation for VM and guest_memfd preservation
  2026-07-28 · Tarun Sahu <hidden>
• COLD19d [PATCH v4] pci_crash: capture PCI config space at panic time
  2026-07-23 · hangej <hidden>
• STALE62d [PATCH v3] pci_crash: capture PCI config space at panic time
  2026-07-14 · hangej <hidden>
• COOLING10d [PATCH v5 12/20] docs: liveupdate: Add documentation for VFIO PCI
  2026-07-14 · Vipin Sharma <hidden>
• COLD59d [RFC PATCH 2/4] panic: run the pre kdump list before crash kexec
  2026-07-11 · Bradley Morgan <hidden>
• COLD49d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v7 12/12] Documentation: PCI: Add documentation for Live Update
  2026-07-10 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
• COLD49d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v7 05/12] PCI: liveupdate: Keep bus numbers constant during Live Update
  2026-07-10 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
• COLD49d 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>
• STALE62d [RFC PATCH 13/14] Documentation: add lazy sysfs initialisation and device_sysfs_entry docs
  2026-07-02 · Pavol Sakac <hidden>
• STALE63d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 3/5] driver core: async device shutdown infrastructure
  2026-07-01 · David Jeffery <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.

• STALE189d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v7 6/6] kho: document kexec-metadata tracking feature
  2026-03-06 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE159d 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
• STALE159d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v8 6/6] kho: document kexec-metadata tracking feature
  2026-03-09 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD49d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v7 05/12] PCI: liveupdate: Keep bus numbers constant during Live Update
  2026-07-10 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> · 2 Reviewed-by
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v8 01/12] PCI: liveupdate: Set up FLB handler for the PCI core
  2026-07-28 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v8 12/12] Documentation: PCI: Add documentation for Live Update
  2026-07-28 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> · 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.

• STALE201d [PATCH v6 5/5] riscv: kexec: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
  2026-02-24 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE146d [PATCH v3 05/24] docs: liveupdate: Add documentation for PCI
  2026-03-23 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
• STALE146d [PATCH v3 04/24] PCI: Inherit bus numbers from previous kernel during Live Update
  2026-03-23 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
• STALE146d [PATCH v3 13/24] docs: liveupdate: Add documentation for VFIO PCI
  2026-03-23 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
• STALE133d [PATCH v4 11/11] Documentation: PCI: Add documentation for Live Update
  2026-04-23 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
• STALE131d [PATCH 11/11] Documentation: admin-guide: kdump: document linux,no-dump DT property
  2026-04-29 · Chen Wandun <hidden>
• STALE115d [PATCH v5 11/11] Documentation: PCI: Add documentation for Live Update
  2026-05-12 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
• STALE109d [PATCH v3 05/11] kho: add support for linked-block serialization
  2026-05-29 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• STALE104d [PATCH v5 07/13] kho: add support for linked-block serialization
  2026-06-02 · 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>