kdump · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
• M Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
• M Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• M Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• M Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
• R Dave Young <ruirui.yang@linux.dev>

Paths

• F Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/
• F fs/proc/vmcore.c
• F include/linux/crash_core.h
• F include/linux/crash_dump.h
• F include/uapi/linux/vmcore.h
• F kernel/crash_*.c

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• [PATCH v2 0/8] kdump: reduce vmcore size and capture time
  2026-05-20 09:19 · 1 reply in 7d · Wandun Chen <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Sourabh Jain <hidden>
  3 attestations (1 Reported-by, 2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-05-11
• Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-05-11
• Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-05-11

Recent patches

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

• [PATCH v2 2/8] kexec/crash: provide crash_exclude_mem_range() stub when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=n
  2026-05-20 · Wandun Chen <hidden>
• [PATCH v13 13/15] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-05-11 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• [PATCH v13 08/15] crash: Add crash_prepare_headers() to exclude crash kernel memory
  2026-05-11 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• [PATCH v2 9/9] Documentation: kdump: Add arm64 and ppc64le to encrypted dump target support list
  2026-05-01 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• [PATCH v2 8/9] crash_dump: Disallow configfs/crash_dm_crypt_key/reuse if CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG enabled
  2026-05-01 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• [PATCH 11/11] Documentation: admin-guide: kdump: document linux,no-dump DT property
  2026-04-29 · Chen Wandun <hidden>
• [PATCH] crash: Support high memory reservation for range syntax
  2026-04-04 · Youling Tang <hidden>
• [PATCH v12 13/15] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-04-02 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• [PATCH v12 08/15] crash: Add crash_prepare_headers() to exclude crash kernel memory
  2026-04-02 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• [PATCH v11 09/11] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-03-28 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• [PATCH v11 08/11] crash: Exclude crash kernel memory in crash core
  2026-03-28 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• [PATCH v10 5/8] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-03-25 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• [PATCH v10 4/8] crash: Exclude crash kernel memory in crash core
  2026-03-25 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• [PATCH v9 3/5] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-03-23 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• [PATCH v9 2/5] crash: Exclude crash kernel memory in crash core
  2026-03-23 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• [PATCH v8 3/5] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-03-02 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• [PATCH v8 2/5] crash: Exclude crash kernel memory in crash core
  2026-03-02 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• [PATCH v7 2/5] crash: Exclude crash kernel memory in crash core
  2026-02-26 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• [PATCH v7 3/5] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-02-26 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• [PATCH v5 2/3] crash: Align the declaration of crash_load_dm_crypt_keys with CONFIG_CRASH_DM_CRYPT
  2026-02-25 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• [PATCH v6 3/5] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-02-24 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• [PATCH v6 2/5] crash: Exclude crash kernel memory in crash core
  2026-02-24 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• [RFC PATCH v1] kexec: optimize crash hotplug by filtering redundant FDT updates
  2026-02-16 · Vishal Chourasia <hidden>
• [PATCH v5 2/4] crash: Exclude crash kernel memory in crash core
  2026-02-12 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• [PATCH v4 1/3] crash: Exclude crash kernel memory in crash core
  2026-02-09 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• [PATCH v2] powerpc/kdump: pass dm-crypt keys to kdump kernel
  2026-01-06 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• Re: [PATCH v2 15/16] fs/proc: update vmcore to use .proc_mmap_prepare
  2025-09-12 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• [PATCH v2 15/16] fs/proc: update vmcore to use .proc_mmap_prepare
  2025-09-10 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• [PATCH 15/16] fs/proc: update vmcore to use .proc_mmap_[prepare, complete]
  2025-09-08 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• [PATCH v2] fs/proc/vmcore: a few cleanups for vmcore_add_device_dump
  2025-06-26 · Su Hui <hidden>

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.

• [PATCH v6 3/5] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-02-24 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>