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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 00/22] alpha: catch up on architecture Kconfig options
  2026-09-05 19:30 · 5 replies in 7d · Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 00/12] mm: make userland page table freeing RCU-safe
  2026-09-01 11:08 · 1 reply in 7d · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
  10 attestations (5 Reviewed-by, 5 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-05

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 16/22] alpha: select ARCH_USE_MEMTEST
  2026-09-05 · Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 14/22] alpha: select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
  2026-09-05 · Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 12/22] alpha: add ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL support
  2026-09-05 · Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 04/22] alpha: select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
  2026-09-05 · Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 03/22] alpha: select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
  2026-09-05 · Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 12/12] mm: change the contract for free_pgtables(), update docs
  2026-09-01 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE61d LANDED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 6/7] alpha: enable lockdep hardirq state tracking
  2026-07-06 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• STALE61d LANDED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 1/7] alpha: enable regset-based ptrace and core dumps
  2026-07-06 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• STALE62d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3 7/8] alpha: enable lockdep hardirq state tracking
  2026-06-12 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• STALE62d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3 1/8] alpha: enable regset-based ptrace and core dumps
  2026-06-12 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• STALE85d [PATCH v2 7/8] alpha: enable lockdep hardirq state tracking
  2026-05-29 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• STALE85d [PATCH v2 1/8] alpha: enable regset-based ptrace and core dumps
  2026-05-29 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• STALE108d [PATCH] video: console: mdacon: remove this obsolete driver
  2026-05-20 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• STALE111d [PATCH 7/8] alpha: enable lockdep hardirq state tracking
  2026-05-17 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• STALE111d [PATCH 1/8] alpha: enable regset-based ptrace and core dumps
  2026-05-17 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies LANDED [PATCH v3 1/1] alpha: add support for SECCOMP and SECCOMP_FILTER
  2026-04-09 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 1/1] alpha: Add support for HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
  2026-02-25 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• STALE194d [PATCH v2 1/1] alpha: add support for SECCOMP and SECCOMP_FILTER
  2026-02-20 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/1] alpha: enable DMA CMA support (HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS)
  2026-02-19 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• STALE180d [PATCH v3 27/29] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation
  2026-01-11 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE180d [PATCH v3 24/29] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model
  2026-01-11 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE198d [PATCH v2 26/28] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation
  2026-01-02 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE198d [PATCH v2 23/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model
  2026-01-02 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE246d [PATCH 26/28] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation
  2025-12-28 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE246d [PATCH 23/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model
  2025-12-28 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE331d [PATCH RESEND 55/62] init: rename CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD to CONFIG_INITRAMFS
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE331d [PATCH RESEND 45/62] doc: kernel-parameters: replace [RAM] with [INITRAMFS]
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE331d [PATCH RESEND 44/62] doc: kernel-parameters: remove [RAM] from reserve_mem=
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE331d [PATCH RESEND 30/62] doc: remove documentation for block device 4 0
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE331d [PATCH RESEND 22/62] doc: remove obsolete mentions of pivot_root
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/1] alpha: enable DMA CMA support (HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS)
  2026-02-19 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• STALE194d [PATCH v2 1/1] alpha: add support for SECCOMP and SECCOMP_FILTER
  2026-02-20 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 1/1] alpha: Add support for HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
  2026-02-25 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies LANDED [PATCH v3 1/1] alpha: add support for SECCOMP and SECCOMP_FILTER
  2026-04-09 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• STALE111d [PATCH 1/8] alpha: enable regset-based ptrace and core dumps
  2026-05-17 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• STALE111d [PATCH 7/8] alpha: enable lockdep hardirq state tracking
  2026-05-17 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• STALE85d [PATCH v2 1/8] alpha: enable regset-based ptrace and core dumps
  2026-05-29 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• STALE85d [PATCH v2 7/8] alpha: enable lockdep hardirq state tracking
  2026-05-29 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>