tracing · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• M Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• R Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/tracepoint.rst
• F Documentation/trace/*
• F fs/tracefs/
• F include/linux/trace*.h
• F include/trace/
• F kernel/trace/
• F kernel/tracepoint.c
• F scripts/tracing/
• F scripts/tracepoint-update.c
• F tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COLD31d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 1/7] tracing/lock: Remove unnecessary linux/sched.h include
  2026-05-05 · Dmitry Ilvokhin <hidden>
• COLD31d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v6 3/7] locking: Add contended_release tracepoint to sleepable locks
  2026-05-05 · Dmitry Ilvokhin <hidden>
• STALE72d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v5 3/7] locking: Add contended_release tracepoint to sleepable locks
  2026-04-16 · Dmitry Ilvokhin <hidden>
• STALE72d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 1/7] tracing/lock: Remove unnecessary linux/sched.h include
  2026-04-16 · Dmitry Ilvokhin <hidden>
• STALE88d [PATCH v4 1/5] tracing/lock: Remove unnecessary linux/sched.h include
  2026-03-26 · Dmitry Ilvokhin <hidden>
• STALE88d [PATCH v4 3/5] locking: Add contended_release tracepoint to sleepable locks
  2026-03-26 · Dmitry Ilvokhin <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH v3 3/4] locking: Add contended_release tracepoint to sleepable locks
  2026-03-18 · Dmitry Ilvokhin <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH v3 1/4] tracing/lock: Remove unnecessary linux/sched.h include
  2026-03-18 · Dmitry Ilvokhin <hidden>
• STALE133d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH 6.12 065/385] ftrace: Make ftrace_regs abstract from direct use
  2026-02-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE209d REVIEWED: 19 (18M) [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/tlb/trace: Export the TLB_REMOTE_WRONG_CPU enum
  2025-12-12 · Tal Zussman <hidden>
• STALE136d [PATCH v3 06/22] mm/mshare: Add a vma flag to indicate an mshare region
  2025-08-20 · Anthony Yznaga <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies LANDED [PATCH] tracing: Remove redundant config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
  2025-07-04 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE373d LANDED Re: [RFC][PATCH] ftrace: Make DYNAMIC_FTRACE always enabled for architectures that support it
  2025-07-03 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE373d LANDED [RFC][PATCH] ftrace: Make DYNAMIC_FTRACE always enabled for architectures that support it
  2025-07-03 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE394d [PATCH v2 5/5] tracing: Call trace_ftrace_test_filter() for the event
  2025-06-13 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE394d [PATCH v2 2/5] tracing: sorttable: Add a tracepoint verification check at build time
  2025-06-13 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE394d [PATCH v2 1/5] tracepoints: Add verifier that makes sure all defined tracepoints are used
  2025-06-13 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE327d [PATCH v2 06/20] mm/mshare: Add a vma flag to indicate an mshare region
  2025-04-04 · Anthony Yznaga <hidden>
• STALE523d [PATCH 06/20] mm/mshare: Add a vma flag to indicate an mshare region
  2025-01-24 · Anthony Yznaga <hidden>
• STALE479d [PATCH RFC v2 14/29] mm: asi: Map non-user buddy allocations as nonsensitive
  2025-01-10 · Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
• STALE522d LANDED [PATCH v23] bpf: Use ftrace_get_symaddr() for kprobe_multi probes
  2024-12-31 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• STALE522d [PATCH v22 20/20] bpf: Use ftrace_get_symaddr() for kprobe_multi probes
  2024-12-26 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• STALE522d LANDED [PATCH v22 17/20] selftests/ftrace: Add a test case for repeating register/unregister fprobe
  2024-12-26 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• STALE522d LANDED [PATCH v22 16/20] selftests: ftrace: Remove obsolate maxactive syntax check
  2024-12-26 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• STALE522d LANDED [PATCH v22 15/20] tracing/fprobe: Remove nr_maxactive from fprobe
  2024-12-26 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• STALE522d LANDED [PATCH v22 14/20] fprobe: Add fprobe_header encoding feature
  2024-12-26 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• STALE522d LANDED [PATCH v22 13/20] fprobe: Rewrite fprobe on function-graph tracer
  2024-12-26 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• STALE522d LANDED [PATCH v22 11/20] ftrace: Add CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC
  2024-12-26 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• STALE522d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v22 10/20] bpf: Enable kprobe_multi feature if CONFIG_FPROBE is enabled
  2024-12-26 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• STALE522d LANDED [PATCH v22 09/20] tracing/fprobe: Enable fprobe events with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
  2024-12-26 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>

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.

• STALE112d [PATCH v3 1/4] tracing/lock: Remove unnecessary linux/sched.h include
  2026-03-18 · Dmitry Ilvokhin <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH v3 3/4] locking: Add contended_release tracepoint to sleepable locks
  2026-03-18 · Dmitry Ilvokhin <hidden>