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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v15 00/37] arm64: Support for Arm CCA in KVM
  2026-07-15 14:31 · 3 replies in 7d · Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v5 00/20] vfio/pci: Base Live Update support for VFIO
  2026-07-14 15:15 · 1 reply in 7d · Vipin Sharma <hidden>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH v3 0/6] Add support for AMD IOMMU GAPPI
  2026-07-13 10:53 · 1 reply in 7d · Sairaj Kodilkar <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v8 00/11] KVM: arm64: PMU: Use multiple host PMUs
  2026-07-10 11:15 · 1 reply in 7d · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v12 00/29] KVM: arm64: Implement support for SME
  2026-07-09 18:41 · 1 reply in 7d · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d [PATCH] RISC-V: KVM: Add kvm-riscv.wfi_trap_policy to control VS-mode WFI trapping
  2026-07-09 11:56 · 0 replies in 7d · Yuhang.chen <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
  12 attestations (4 Acked-by, 8 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-08
• SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-08
• Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-08
• Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-01
• Fuad Tabba <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-09
• Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-03
• Andrew Jones <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-01
• Charlie Jenkins <hidden>
  2 attestations (1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-01
• 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

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v15 27/37] KVM: arm64: CCA: Allow userspace to inject aborts
  2026-07-15 · Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v15 09/37] KVM: arm64: CCA: Allow passing the machine type in KVM creation
  2026-07-15 · Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v15 06/37] KVM: arm64: CCA: Define the user ABI
  2026-07-15 · Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v5 12/20] docs: liveupdate: Add documentation for VFIO PCI
  2026-07-14 · Vipin Sharma <hidden>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH v3 6/6] iommu/amd: Provide kernel command line option to enable GAPPI
  2026-07-13 · Sairaj Kodilkar <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v8 10/11] KVM: arm64: PMU: Introduce FIXED_COUNTERS_ONLY
  2026-07-10 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v12 13/29] KVM: arm64: Document the KVM ABI for SME
  2026-07-09 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d [PATCH] RISC-V: KVM: Add kvm-riscv.wfi_trap_policy to control VS-mode WFI trapping
  2026-07-09 · Yuhang.chen <hidden>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v11 13/29] KVM: arm64: Document the KVM ABI for SME
  2026-07-09 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 2/2] KVM: x86: Document APIC base address constraint for in-kernel irqchip
  2026-07-08 · Tim Wiederhake <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86: Document that KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP must precede vcpu creation
  2026-07-08 · Tim Wiederhake <hidden>
• COOLING6d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v10 15/15] Documentation/userfaultfd: document RWP working set tracking
  2026-07-08 · Kiryl Shutsemau <hidden>
• COOLING6d IN LINUX-NEXT: 11 (11M) [PATCH v10 11/15] mm/pagemap: add PAGE_IS_ACCESSED for RWP tracking
  2026-07-08 · Kiryl Shutsemau <hidden>
• COOLING6d IN LINUX-NEXT: 11 (11M) [PATCH v10 09/15] userfaultfd: add UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_RWP and UFFDIO_RWPROTECT plumbing
  2026-07-08 · Kiryl Shutsemau <hidden>
• COOLING6d IN LINUX-NEXT: 22 (22M) [PATCH v10 05/15] mm: add VM_UFFD_RWP VMA flag
  2026-07-08 · Kiryl Shutsemau <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH v4 15/15] s390/vfio-ap: Add live guest migration chapter to vfio-ap.rst
  2026-07-07 · Anthony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.ibm.com>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v8 6/7] KVM: arm64: PMU: Introduce FIXED_COUNTERS_ONLY
  2026-07-06 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH 2/4] KVM: x86: Document APIC base address constraint for in-kernel irqchip
  2026-07-06 · Tim Wiederhake <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH 1/4] KVM: x86: Document that KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP must precede vcpu creation
  2026-07-06 · Tim Wiederhake <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v9 15/15] Documentation/userfaultfd: document RWP working set tracking
  2026-07-06 · Kiryl Shutsemau <hidden>
• COOLING9d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v9 11/15] mm/pagemap: add PAGE_IS_ACCESSED for RWP tracking
  2026-07-06 · Kiryl Shutsemau <hidden>
• COOLING9d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v9 09/15] userfaultfd: add UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_RWP and UFFDIO_RWPROTECT plumbing
  2026-07-06 · Kiryl Shutsemau <hidden>
• COOLING9d REVIEWED: 22 (22M) [PATCH v9 05/15] mm: add VM_UFFD_RWP VMA flag
  2026-07-06 · Kiryl Shutsemau <hidden>
• COOLING12d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v6 09/36] KVM: x86: Add KVM_VCPU_TSC_SCALE and fix the documentation on TSC migration
  2026-07-03 · David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
• COOLING12d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH v6 05/36] KVM: x86: Add KVM_[GS]ET_CLOCK_GUEST for accurate KVM clock migration
  2026-07-03 · David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
• DORMANTno replies Addressing Sashiko AI review
  2026-07-03 · Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 40/40] Documentation: KVM: Add the VGICv5 IRS save/restore sequences
  2026-07-03 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 39/40] Documentation: KVM: Add docs for KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_IST
  2026-07-03 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 38/40] Documentation: KVM: Add KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_IRS_REGS to VGICv5 docs
  2026-07-03 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 37/40] Documentation: KVM: Document KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CPU_SYSREGS for VGICv5
  2026-07-03 · Sascha Bischoff <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.

• STALE168d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 23/36] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Support GICv5 interrupts with KVM_IRQ_LINE
  2026-01-09 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE168d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 34/36] Documentation: KVM: Introduce documentation for VGICv5
  2026-01-09 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE162d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v7 2/2] KVM: SEV: Add KVM_SEV_SNP_ENABLE_REQ_CERTS command
  2026-01-09 · Michael Roth <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE166d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v4 23/36] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Support GICv5 interrupts with KVM_IRQ_LINE
  2026-01-28 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE166d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 27/36] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Mandate architected PPI for PMU emulation on GICv5
  2026-01-28 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE166d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v4 34/36] Documentation: KVM: Introduce documentation for VGICv5
  2026-01-28 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING14d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [RFC PATCH v5 24/45] Documentation/x86: Add documentation for TDX's Dynamic PAMT
  2026-01-29 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE132d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 11/16] KVM: x86/tdx: Do VMXON and TDX-Module initialization during subsys init
  2026-02-14 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE132d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v5 23/36] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Support GICv5 interrupts with KVM_IRQ_LINE
  2026-02-26 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE132d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v5 27/36] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Mandate architected PPI for PMU emulation on GICv5
  2026-02-26 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 2 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 RFC 02/13] docs: dma-api: document __dma_align_begin/end
  2025-12-30 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE192d [PATCH RFC 04/13] docs: dma-api: document DMA_ATTR_CPU_CACHE_CLEAN
  2025-12-30 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] RISC-V: KVM: Document scounteren and senvcfg in CSRs
  2026-01-15 · Jiakai Xu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [RFC PATCH] x86,fs/resctrl: Add support for Global Bandwidth Enforcement (GLBE)
  2026-01-21 · Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
• STALE141d [RFC PATCH 05/19] x86,fs/resctrl: Add support for Global Slow Memory Bandwidth Allocation (GSMBA)
  2026-01-21 · Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
• STALE141d [RFC PATCH 07/19] fs/resctrl: Add the documentation for Global Slow Memory Bandwidth Allocation
  2026-01-21 · Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
• STALE141d [RFC PATCH 08/19] x86/resctrl: Support Privilege-Level Zero Association (PLZA)
  2026-01-21 · Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
• STALE141d [RFC PATCH 10/19] fs/resctrl: Expose plza_capable via control info file
  2026-01-21 · Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
• STALE173d [PATCH v4 1/1] KVM: SEV: Add KVM_SEV_SNP_HV_REPORT_REQ command
  2026-01-23 · Thomas Courrege <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] KVM: Add KVM_GET_REG_LIST ioctl for LoongArch
  2026-01-26 · Zixing Liu <hidden>