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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v17 00/13] tracing: wprobe: x86: Add wprobe for watchpoint
  2026-09-22 04:27 · 4 replies in 7d · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 0/2] x86/tdx: Use TDVMCALLs directly for earlyprintk
  2026-09-22 20:20 · 1 reply in 7d · Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
• WARM1d [RFC PATCH 00/46] Orphaned Virtual Machines
  2026-09-20 19:39 · 4 replies in 7d · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 00/14] KVM: arm64: Add KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY support
  2026-09-22 14:19 · 1 reply in 7d · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v7 00/19] PCI/P2PDMA: Route peer-to-peer DMA by TLP class
  2026-09-20 11:42 · 3 replies in 7d · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v2 0/6] vsock: assign the guest vsock device to a network namespace
  2026-09-22 01:18 · 1 reply in 7d · Bobby Eshleman <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 0/2] x86/tdx: Use TDVMCALLs directly for earlyprintk
  2026-09-21 19:53 · 1 reply in 7d · Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH RFC v4 0/4] RISC-V: Add PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS support
  2026-09-21 12:27 · 1 reply in 7d · "GUO Ren (XuanTie)" <guoren@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH 00/21] mm: change behavior of pXdp_get()/pXd_page() in compile-time folded pgtable
  2026-09-21 10:59 · 1 reply in 7d · Yeoreum Yun <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v19 00/20] KVM: arm64: CCA: Add basic plumbing for Realms
  2026-09-20 21:29 · 1 reply in 7d · Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Shivank Garg <hidden>
  15 attestations (15 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Binbin Wu <hidden>
  11 attestations (11 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
  10 attestations (6 Co-developed-by, 4 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-18
• Xiaoyao Li <hidden>
  9 attestations (6 Reviewed-by, 3 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Fuad Tabba <hidden>
  9 attestations (9 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
  7 attestations (1 Acked-by, 3 Reviewed-by, 3 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Vishal Annapurve <hidden>
  7 attestations (6 Co-developed-by, 1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Yan Zhao <hidden>
  6 attestations (3 Reviewed-by, 3 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
  6 attestations (3 Reviewed-by, 3 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Ackerley Tng <hidden>
  5 attestations (5 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-09-10

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3 2/2] x86/early_printk: Add earlyprintk=tdx to drive the UART with TDVMCALLs
  2026-09-22 · Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 11/14] Documentation: KVM: document arm64 KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY
  2026-09-22 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v17 13/13] tracing/wprobe: Support BTF struct offset resolution in set_wprobe trigger
  2026-09-22 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v17 12/13] tracing/wprobe: Support BTF typecast in fetchargs
  2026-09-22 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v17 10/13] tracing/wprobe: Add set_wprobe and clear_wprobe event triggers
  2026-09-22 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v17 06/13] tracing/wprobe: Add wprobe (watchpoint probe) trace event support
  2026-09-22 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v2 3/6] vsock: add a netlink command to assign the g2h device to a netns
  2026-09-22 · Bobby Eshleman <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/early_printk: Add earlyprintk=tdx to drive the UART with TDVMCALLs
  2026-09-21 · Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH RFC v4 4/4] RISC-V: paravirt: Support nopvspin to disable PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS
  2026-09-21 · "GUO Ren (XuanTie)" <guoren@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH 21/21] Documentation: mm: clarify behaviour of compile-time folded page tables
  2026-09-21 · Yeoreum Yun <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v19 12/20] KVM: arm64: CCA: Add a new mode for supporting Realm guests
  2026-09-20 · Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
• WARM1d [RFC PATCH 30/46] KVM: caretaker: Integrate Caretaker vCPU detach, attach, and cancel with KVM
  2026-09-20 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• WARM1d [RFC PATCH 28/46] KVM: caretaker: Add Caretaker control block and architecture ops headers
  2026-09-20 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• WARM1d [RFC PATCH 27/46] oncore: Implement on-core session lifecycle and scheduling loop
  2026-09-20 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• WARM1d [RFC PATCH 23/46] Documentation: liveupdate: Add physical CPU preservation documentation
  2026-09-20 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 15/19] PCI/P2PDMA: Document TLP-class routing
  2026-09-20 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v7 05/19] PCI/P2PDMA: Document directional ACS routing
  2026-09-20 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v7 01/19] PCI/P2PDMA: Document the TLP attribute assumptions
  2026-09-20 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH v11 20/21] KVM: arm64: PMU: Introduce FIXED_COUNTERS_ONLY
  2026-09-20 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] Documentation: Add missing KVM s390 crypto attributes
  2026-09-18 · Eric Farman <farman@linux.ibm.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH 13/31] KVM: Introduce NR/NW/NX memory attributes
  2026-09-18 · Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH 03/31] KVM: Define and communicate KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT RWX flags to userspace
  2026-09-18 · Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH 06/31] KVM: x86: Introduce memory fault on invalid hypercalls reads/writes
  2026-09-18 · Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v2 12/28] KVM: Introduce NR/NW/NX memory attributes
  2026-09-18 · Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v2 05/28] KVM: x86: Introduce memory fault on invalid hypercalls reads/writes
  2026-09-18 · Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v2 02/28] KVM: Define and communicate KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT RWX flags to userspace
  2026-09-18 · Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
• HOTtoday IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 09/40] docs: filesystems: update mmap_prepare docs for discontig kernel pgs
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 4/4] KVM: TDX: Validate userspace CPUID input for KVM_TDX_INIT_VM
  2026-09-17 · Binbin Wu <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 3/4] KVM: TDX: Filter configurable CPUID bits
  2026-09-17 · Binbin Wu <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v5 26/27] Documentation: vfio-pci: Document CXL Type-2 device passthrough
  2026-09-16 · <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.

• COLD40d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 26/39] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Support GICv5 interrupts with KVM_IRQ_LINE
  2026-03-17 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD40d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v6 30/39] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Mandate architected PPI for PMU emulation on GICv5
  2026-03-17 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• COLD40d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 36/39] Documentation: KVM: Introduce documentation for VGICv5
  2026-03-17 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD40d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 37/39] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Communicate userspace-driveable PPIs via a UAPI
  2026-03-17 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE182d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 10/10] x86/vmscape: Add cmdline vmscape=on to override attack vector controls
  2026-03-19 · Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE182d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 27/41] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Support GICv5 interrupts with KVM_IRQ_LINE
  2026-03-19 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE182d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v7 32/41] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Mandate architected PPI for PMU emulation on GICv5
  2026-03-19 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE182d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 38/41] Documentation: KVM: Introduce documentation for VGICv5
  2026-03-19 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE182d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 39/41] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Communicate userspace-driveable PPIs via a UAPI
  2026-03-19 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v8 10/10] x86/vmscape: Add cmdline vmscape=on to override attack vector controls
  2026-03-24 · Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.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.

• STALE197d [RFC PATCH v2 6/7] KVM: Rename mn_* invalidate-related fields to generic ones
  2026-02-26 · Takahiro Itazuri <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] Documentation: KVM: fix punctuation for e.g. and i.e.
  2026-03-01 · Afkari Zergaw <hidden>
• COLD54d [PATCH v2 36/36] Documentation: KVM: x86: Update documentation of struct vmcs12
  2026-03-05 · <hidden>
• STALE153d [PATCH v2 04/16] x86/resctrl: Support Privilege-Level Zero Association (PLZA)
  2026-03-12 · Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
• STALE153d [PATCH v2 11/16] fs/resctrl: Add write handler for info/kernel_mode
  2026-03-12 · Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
• STALE153d [PATCH v2 13/16] fs/resctrl: Add write interface for kernel_mode_assignment
  2026-03-12 · Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
• STALE190d [PATCH v4 3/4] KVM: arm64: PMU: Introduce FIXED_COUNTERS_ONLY
  2026-03-17 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• STALE154d [PATCH v13 11/48] arm64: RMI: Define the user ABI
  2026-03-18 · Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
• STALE182d Re: [PATCH v7 10/10] x86/vmscape: Add cmdline vmscape=on to override attack vector controls
  2026-03-19 · Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
• STALE181d [PATCH 11/22] KVM: x86/mmu: move cr4_smep to base role
  2026-03-21 · Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>