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

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• COOLING5d [PATCH v3 00/22] netfs: Keep track of folios in a segmented bio_vec[] chain
  2026-06-08 14:57 · 7 replies in 7d · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) <pc@manguebit.org>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-08

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3 22/22] netfs: Combine prepare and issue ops and grab the buffers on request
  2026-06-08 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v3 20/22] netfs: Check for too much data being read
  2026-06-08 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v3 14/22] netfs: Switch to using bvecq rather than folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-06-08 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v3 09/22] netfs: Add some tools for managing bvecq chains
  2026-06-08 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3 05/22] netfs: Bulk load the readahead-provided folios up front
  2026-06-08 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v3 03/22] netfs: Add the cache object ID to netfs_read/write tracepoints
  2026-06-08 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v3 02/22] cachefiles: Don't rely on backing fs storage map for most use cases
  2026-06-08 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD26d [RFC PATCH 03/36] netfs: Add some TCP receive queue helpers
  2026-05-19 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v2 21/21] netfs: Combine prepare and issue ops and grab the buffers on request
  2026-05-18 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v2 19/21] netfs: Check for too much data being read
  2026-05-18 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v2 13/21] netfs: Switch to using bvecq rather than folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-05-18 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v2 08/21] netfs: Add some tools for managing bvecq chains
  2026-05-18 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING9d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 04/21] netfs: Bulk load the readahead-provided folios up front
  2026-05-18 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v2 02/21] netfs: Add the cache object ID to netfs_read/write tracepoints
  2026-05-18 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v2 01/21] cachefiles: Don't rely on backing fs storage map for most use cases
  2026-05-18 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD33d [PATCH v6 21/24] netfs: Fix folio->private handling in netfs_perform_write()
  2026-05-12 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD33d [PATCH v6 13/24] netfs: Fix streaming write being overwritten
  2026-05-12 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD33d [PATCH v6 11/24] netfs: Fix netfs_invalidate_folio() to clear dirty bit if all changes gone
  2026-05-12 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD47d [PATCH v5 21/24] netfs: Fix folio->private handling in netfs_perform_write()
  2026-04-28 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD47d [PATCH v5 11/24] netfs: Fix netfs_invalidate_folio() to clear dirty bit if all changes gone
  2026-04-28 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD47d [PATCH v5 13/24] netfs: Fix streaming write being overwritten
  2026-04-28 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD47d [PATCH v4 19/22] netfs: Fix folio->private handling in netfs_perform_write()
  2026-04-27 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD47d [PATCH v4 11/22] netfs: Fix streaming write being overwritten
  2026-04-27 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD47d [PATCH v4 09/22] netfs: Fix netfs_invalidate_folio() to clear dirty bit if all changes gone
  2026-04-27 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4 11/22] netfs: Fix streaming write being overwritten
  2026-04-27 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD47d [PATCH v4 09/22] netfs: Fix netfs_invalidate_folio() to clear dirty bit if all changes gone
  2026-04-27 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD50d [PATCH v3 14/19] netfs: Fix folio->private handling in netfs_perform_write()
  2026-04-25 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD50d [PATCH v3 05/19] netfs: Fix streaming write being overwritten
  2026-04-25 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD50d [PATCH v3 03/19] netfs: Fix netfs_invalidate_folio() to clear dirty bit if all changes gone
  2026-04-25 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD54d [PATCH 07/11] netfs: Fix folio->private handling in netfs_perform_write()
  2026-04-20 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

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.

• STALE108d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH] netfs: Fix unbuffered/DIO writes to dispatch subrequests in strict sequence
  2026-02-26 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE89d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v3 09/12] ext4: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE89d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 11/12] nilfs2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> · 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.

• STALE106d [PATCH 04/61] ext4: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE106d [PATCH 06/61] f2fs: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE101d [PATCH v2 005/110] trace: store i_ino as u64 instead of ino_t/unsigned long
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE101d [PATCH v2 006/110] trace: reorder TP_STRUCT__entry fields for better packing on 32-bit
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE101d [PATCH v2 009/110] f2fs: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE82d [RFC PATCH 05/17] netfs: Add some tools for managing bvecq chains
  2026-03-04 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE82d [RFC PATCH 10/17] netfs: Switch to using bvecq rather than folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-03-04 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE82d [RFC PATCH 16/17] netfs: Check for too much data being read
  2026-03-04 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE89d [PATCH v3 05/12] cachefiles: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE89d [PATCH v3 07/12] hugetlbfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>