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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH v5 00/16] x86/resctrl: Add kernel-mode (e.g., PLZA) support to the resctrl subsystem
  2026-08-26 19:35 · 5 replies in 7d · Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v11 00/46] guest_memfd: In-place conversion support
  2026-08-26 09:18 · 5 replies in 7d · Ackerley Tng <hidden>
• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH 0/12] drm/fabric: vendor-neutral topology infrastructure for scale-up accelerator interconnects
  2026-08-24 08:10 · 10 replies in 7d · Konstantin Sinyuk <ksinyuk@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 0/8] Enhance TLP packet decoder with field-level parsing and versioning
  2026-08-27 14:05 · 1 reply in 7d · Sizhe Liu <liusizhe5@huawei.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v1] doc: RCU: Fix typo
  2026-08-27 09:06 · 0 replies in 7d · Costa Shulyupin <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 00/10] gpu: nova-core: add PRAMIN window support
  2026-08-27 08:52 · 1 reply in 7d · Eliot Courtney <hidden>
• HOTtoday [RFC 0/3] rv: per-edge dwell-time statistics for per-cpu monitors
  2026-08-27 07:24 · 1 reply in 7d · Tobias Schaffner <tobias.schaffner@siemens.com>
• HOTtoday [RFC for-next 0/3] block: delay support for error injection
  2026-08-27 00:01 · 1 reply in 7d · Md Haris Iqbal <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 00/19] crypto: cmh - add Rambus CryptoManager Hub driver
  2026-08-25 22:16 · 2 replies in 7d · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v3 13/13] Documentation/gpu: document the Vino driver
  2026-08-26 16:41 · 0 replies in 7d · Mike Lothian <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org>
  17 attestations (5 Acked-by, 12 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-14
• Shivank Garg <hidden>
  13 attestations (13 Tested-by) · last on 2026-08-26
• David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
  9 attestations (4 Acked-by, 5 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-08-26
• Gautam Menghani <hidden>
  8 attestations (4 Reviewed-by, 4 Tested-by) · last on 2026-08-08
• Fuad Tabba <hidden>
  7 attestations (7 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-26
• Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
  7 attestations (3 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by, 3 Tested-by) · last on 2026-08-13
• Vishal Annapurve <hidden>
  6 attestations (6 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-08-26
• Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>
  6 attestations (6 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-12
• Bharath R <hidden>
  6 attestations (6 Tested-by) · last on 2026-08-12
• Binbin Wu <hidden>
  5 attestations (5 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-26

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 7/8] hwtracing: hisi_ptt: Add pattern PMU config for trace format selection
  2026-08-27 · Sizhe Liu <liusizhe5@huawei.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v1] doc: RCU: Fix typo
  2026-08-27 · Costa Shulyupin <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 07/10] docs: gpu: nova-core: Document the PRAMIN aperture mechanism
  2026-08-27 · Eliot Courtney <hidden>
• HOTtoday [RFC 2/3] rv: add per-monitor edge-stat facility and stats file
  2026-08-27 · Tobias Schaffner <tobias.schaffner@siemens.com>
• HOTtoday [RFC for-next 3/3] Documentation: block: document error injection delays
  2026-08-27 · Md Haris Iqbal <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v5 16/16] fs/resctrl: Add documentation on kernel_mode with example
  2026-08-26 · Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v5 15/16] fs/resctrl: Allow user space to write kmode_cpus/kmode_cpus_list
  2026-08-26 · Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v5 14/16] fs/resctrl: Add interface to modify kernel mode via info/kernel_mode
  2026-08-26 · Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v5 09/16] fs/resctrl: Add interface to display supported and active kernel modes
  2026-08-26 · Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v5 02/16] x86/resctrl: Add PLZA support to command-line options
  2026-08-26 · Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v3 13/13] Documentation/gpu: document the Vino driver
  2026-08-26 · Mike Lothian <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 3/3] binfmt_misc: document the field delimiter
  2026-08-26 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] platform/x86: bitland-mifs-wmi: add TM2424 ops and hotkeys
  2026-08-26 · KentoNion <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v1] docs: sysctl: timer_migration is for hrtimer only
  2026-08-26 · Costa Shulyupin <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] platform/x86: bitland-mifs-wmi: add TM2424 ops and hotkeys
  2026-08-26 · KentoNion <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 2/2] driver core: add TAINT_FORCED_BIND for when userspace manually messes with devices and drivers
  2026-08-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH v11 23/46] KVM: Let userspace disable per-VM mem attributes, enable per-gmem attributes
  2026-08-26 · Ackerley Tng <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 5 (0M) [PATCH v11 21/46] KVM: TDX: Make source page optional for KVM_TDX_INIT_MEM_REGION
  2026-08-26 · Ackerley Tng <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v11 20/46] KVM: SEV: Make 'uaddr' parameter optional for KVM_SEV_SNP_LAUNCH_UPDATE
  2026-08-26 · Ackerley Tng <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v11 14/46] KVM: guest_memfd: Ensure pages are not in use before conversion
  2026-08-26 · Ackerley Tng <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v11 13/46] KVM: guest_memfd: Add base support for KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES2
  2026-08-26 · Ackerley Tng <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [RFC PATCH 1/2] sched: Document WF_SYNC wakeup placement semantics
  2026-08-26 · Shubhang Kaushik (Ampere) <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v2] docs: pt_BR: process: Translate development process and programming language
  2026-08-26 · Fabio Pereira da Silva <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] docs: pt_BR: process: Translate development process and programming language
  2026-08-26 · Fabio Pereira da Silva <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 02/19] crypto: cmh - add core platform driver
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 17/19] Documentation: ioctl: add CMH ioctl documentation and register 'J'
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH] docs: pt_BR: process: Translate stable API nonsense
  2026-08-25 · Fabio Pereira da Silva <hidden>
• HOTtoday Re: [PATCH v10 07/41] KVM: guest_memfd: Stub in ability to enable in-place shared<=>private conversion
  2026-08-25 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v4] platform/x86: thinkpad-acpi: Add X1 Fold keyboard attachment detection
  2026-08-25 · Pit Henrich <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] docs: pt_BR: process: Translate patch submission checklist
  2026-08-25 · Fabio Pereira da Silva <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.

• STALE184d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v8 20/20] drm/bridge: Document bridge chain format selection
  2026-02-16 · Nicolas Frattaroli <nicolas.frattaroli@collabora.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE111d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH iwl-next v11] ice: add support for unmanaged DPLL on E830 NIC
  2026-02-17 · Arkadiusz Kubalewski <arkadiusz.kubalewski@intel.com> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE179d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v10 2/8] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up (part two)
  2026-02-18 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 4/5] x86/vsyscall: Disable LASS if vsyscall mode is set to EMULATE
  2026-02-19 · Sohil Mehta <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE177d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2] docs: sysctl: add documentation for crypto and debug
  2026-02-23 · Shubham Chakraborty <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE181d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH net-next v3] docs: ethtool: clarify the bit-by-bit bitset format description
  2026-02-25 · Yohei Kojima <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2] cred: delete task_euid()
  2026-02-27 · Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v9 19/19] drm/bridge: Document bridge chain format selection
  2026-02-27 · Nicolas Frattaroli <nicolas.frattaroli@collabora.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE119d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCHv7 17/18] hugetlb: Update vmemmap_dedup.rst
  2026-02-27 · "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE119d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCHv7 17/18] hugetlb: Update vmemmap_dedup.rst
  2026-02-27 · "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org> · 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.

• STALE203d [PATCH 9/9] Documentation/driver-api/cxl: add dax and sysram driver documentation
  2026-01-29 · Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
• STALE209d [PATCH v9 1/4] Docs/LoongArch: Add Advanced Extended-Redirect IRQ model description
  2026-01-30 · Tianyang Zhang <hidden>
• STALE206d [PATCH v9 1/4] Docs/LoongArch: Add Advanced Extended-Redirect IRQ model description
  2026-01-30 · Tianyang Zhang <hidden>
• STALE194d [PATCH v6 7/8] docs: iio: add documentation for adf41513 driver
  2026-01-30 · Rodrigo Alencar via B4 Relay <devnull+rodrigo.alencar.analog.com@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4 30/41] docs: kdoc_files: allows the caller to use a different xforms class
  2026-01-31 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4 32/41] docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: allow -v override -q
  2026-01-31 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4 28/41] docs: kdoc_re: prevent adding whitespaces on sub replacements
  2026-01-31 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4 33/41] tools: sphinx-build-wrapper: improve its help message
  2026-01-31 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4 36/41] docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: better handle troff .TH markups
  2026-01-31 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4 34/41] docs: kdoc_files: document KernelFiles() ABI
  2026-01-31 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>