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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 00/17] riscv: hwprobe: Expose RVA23U64 base behavior
  2026-07-01 12:55 · 7 replies in 7d · Guodong Xu <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 00/51] x86: Try to wrangle PV clocks vs. TSC
  2026-07-01 19:32 · 4 replies in 7d · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH 0/7] docs: pt_BR: Translate core development process documents
  2026-06-30 20:27 · 7 replies in 7d · Daniel Pereira <danielmaraboo@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next V10 00/14] devlink and mlx5: Support cross-function rate scheduling
  2026-07-01 07:36 · 3 replies in 7d · Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 00/23] sched: Introduce cpu_preferred_mask and steal-driven vCPU backoff
  2026-07-01 14:20 · 2 replies in 7d · Shrikanth Hegde <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] docs: Fix typos under GPU TODO
  2026-07-01 12:43 · 1 reply in 7d · Baran Tuna <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 0/5] PCI: rcar-gen4: irqchip/gic-v3: Handle GIC ITS
  2026-07-01 20:40 · 1 reply in 7d · Marek Vasut <marek.vasut+renesas@mailbox.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v1 0/2] ACPI: bus: Remove struct acpi_driver from the kernel
  2026-07-01 19:17 · 1 reply in 7d · "Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel)" <rafael@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH 0/6] cpufreq/amd-pstate: Rework dynamic_epp as an energy_performance_preference mode
  2026-06-30 19:03 · 2 replies in 7d · K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
• HOTtoday [RFC] entry: Untangle the return value of syscall_enter_from_user_mode from syscall NR
  2026-07-01 17:42 · 0 replies in 7d · Michal Suchánek <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
  7 attestations (3 Co-developed-by, 4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-01
• Baoquan He <hidden>
  7 attestations (4 Acked-by, 3 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-30
• David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
  7 attestations (4 Acked-by, 3 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-30
• Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
  7 attestations (7 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-30
• Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
  7 attestations (5 Acked-by, 2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-29
• Randy Dunlap <hidden>
  6 attestations (2 Acked-by, 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by, 2 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-01
• Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
  6 attestations (2 Acked-by, 3 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-29
• Charlie Jenkins <hidden>
  4 attestations (2 Reviewed-by, 2 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-01
• Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
  4 attestations (2 Acked-by, 2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-29
• Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-27

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 4/5] irqchip/gic-v3: Add Renesas R-Car Gen4 erratum workaround
  2026-07-01 · Marek Vasut <marek.vasut+renesas@mailbox.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 20/51] KVM: x86: Officially define CPUID 0x40000010 as PV Timing Info (TSC and Bus)
  2026-07-01 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 11/51] x86/tsc: Add dedicated hypervisor hooks for getting known TSC/CPU frequencies
  2026-07-01 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 10/51] x86/tdx: Force TSC frequency with CPUID-based info provided by the TDX-Module
  2026-07-01 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 08/51] x86/sev: Shove SNP's secure/trusted TSC frequency directly into "calibration"
  2026-07-01 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v1 1/2] 1/2] ACPI: bus: Eliminate struct acpi_driver
  2026-07-01 · "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [RFC] entry: Untangle the return value of syscall_enter_from_user_mode from syscall NR
  2026-07-01 · Michal Suchánek <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC] coding-assistants: simplify attribution
  2026-07-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 11/23] virt/steal_monitor: Add documentation
  2026-07-01 · Shrikanth Hegde <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 01/23] sched/docs: Document cpu_preferred_mask and Preferred CPU concept
  2026-07-01 · Shrikanth Hegde <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 17/17] riscv: hwprobe: Introduce rva23u64 base behavior
  2026-07-01 · Guodong Xu <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v5 10/17] riscv: Add Zic64b to cpufeature and hwprobe
  2026-07-01 · Guodong Xu <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v5 07/17] riscv: Add B to hwcap and hwprobe
  2026-07-01 · Guodong Xu <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 06/17] riscv: Add Ziccamoa, Ziccif, Ziccrse, and Za64rs to cpufeature and hwprobe
  2026-07-01 · Guodong Xu <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 6 (3M) [PATCH v5 05/17] riscv: Add Zicclsm to cpufeature and hwprobe
  2026-07-01 · Guodong Xu <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 03/17] riscv: hwprobe.rst: Document EXT_ZICFISS and EXT_ZICFILP
  2026-07-01 · Guodong Xu <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 02/17] riscv: hwprobe.rst: Make indentation consistent
  2026-07-01 · Guodong Xu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] docs: Fix typos under GPU TODO
  2026-07-01 · Baran Tuna <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] mm/ksm: document side-channel security considerations
  2026-07-01 · Lukas Gerlach <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 5/5] RISC-V: KVM: Add the eager_page_split module parameter
  2026-07-01 · Wang Yechao <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 1/7] Add documentation for Sahara protocol
  2026-07-01 · Kishore Batta <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] Documentation: Extend the real-time hardware bits with some firmware bits
  2026-07-01 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next V10 14/14] net/mlx5: Document devlink rates
  2026-07-01 · Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next V10 07/14] devlink: Allow rate node parents from other devlinks
  2026-07-01 · Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next V10 01/14] devlink: Update nested instance locking comment
  2026-07-01 · Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH 1/2] Documentation: accel: Add NPAC client driver documentation
  2026-07-01 · Jaspinder Budhal <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 4/4] KVM: PPC: Document KVM_PPC_GET_COMPAT_CAPS ioctl
  2026-07-01 · Amit Machhiwal <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 2/2] PM: dpm_watchdog: Allow disabling DPM watchdog by default
  2026-07-01 · Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] docs: Fix typos under GPU TODO
  2026-07-01 · Baran Tuna <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 18/18] Documentation: iomap: update docs to reflect iomap_next model
  2026-07-01 · Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.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.

• STALE191d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v7 04/31] docs/dyndbg: explain flags parse 1st
  2025-12-22 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE183d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 21/33] drm/vkms: Introduce configfs for plane zpos property
  2025-12-22 · Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE183d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 26/33] drm/vkms: Introduce configfs for connector supported colorspace
  2025-12-22 · Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3] tools: jobserver: Prevent deadlock caused by incorrect jobserver configuration and enhance error reporting
  2026-01-08 · Changbin Du <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE170d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4] tools: jobserver: Prevent deadlock caused by incorrect jobserver configuration and enhance error reporting
  2026-01-08 · Changbin Du <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE159d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 9/9] platform/wmi: Update driver development guide
  2026-01-09 · Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE168d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v3 1/3] cxl, doc: Remove isonum.txt inclusion
  2026-01-12 · Robert Richter <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE168d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v3 2/3] cxl, doc: Moving conventions in separate files
  2026-01-12 · Robert Richter <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE168d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 3/3] Documentation/driver-api/cxl: ACPI PRM Address Translation Support and AMD Zen5 enablement
  2026-01-12 · Robert Richter <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE170d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH cgroup/for-6.20 v5 4/5] cgroup/cpuset: Don't invalidate sibling partitions on cpuset.cpus conflict
  2026-01-12 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.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.

• STALE207d [PATCH v4 2/3] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2025-12-04 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE197d [PATCH v3 6/9] docs: iio: ad4062: Add IIO Events support
  2025-12-05 · Jorge Marques <jorge.marques@analog.com>
• STALE197d [PATCH v3 4/9] docs: iio: ad4062: Add IIO Trigger support
  2025-12-05 · Jorge Marques <jorge.marques@analog.com>
• STALE201d [PATCH 02/11] mm: Rename the 'compound_head' field in the 'struct page' to 'compound_info'
  2025-12-05 · Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
• STALE201d [PATCH 11/11] hugetlb: Update vmemmap_dedup.rst
  2025-12-05 · Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
• STALE202d [RFC LPC2025 PATCH 3/4] mm/vmscan/page_alloc: Deprecate min_{slab, unmapped}_ratio
  2025-12-05 · Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
• STALE202d [RFC LPC2025 PATCH 4/4] mm/vmscan: Deprecate zone_reclaim_mode
  2025-12-05 · Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3] docs: improve introduction wording in howto.rst
  2025-12-07 · ᴋᴀʀᴛɪᴋ sʜᴀʜ <hidden>
• STALE200d [RFC PATCH v3 11/37] Docs/mm/damon/design: document page fault sampling primitive
  2025-12-08 · SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
• STALE200d [RFC PATCH v3 12/37] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document sample primitives dir
  2025-12-08 · SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>