kdump · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
• M Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>
• M Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• M Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• M Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
• R Dave Young <ruirui.yang@linux.dev>

Paths

• F Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/
• F fs/proc/vmcore.c
• F include/linux/crash_core.h
• F include/linux/crash_dump.h
• F include/uapi/linux/vmcore.h
• F kernel/crash_*.c

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Baoquan He <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-06-29
• Sourabh Jain <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-29
• Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-06-29
• Breno leitao <leitao@debian.org>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-06-29

Recent patches

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

• COLD15d REVIEWED: 17 (15M) [PATCH v17 08/10] powerpc/kexec_file: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() helper
  2026-06-29 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v17 03/10] crash: Add crash_prepare_headers() to exclude crash kernel memory
  2026-06-29 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 3/4] riscv: vmcore_info: export riscv arch-specific struct offsets to vmcoreinfo
  2026-06-22 · Pnina Feder <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 4/4] mips: vmcore_info: export mips arch-specific struct offsets to vmcoreinfo
  2026-06-22 · Pnina Feder <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 2/4] vmcoreinfo: export task and mm struct offsets to vmcoreinfo
  2026-06-22 · Pnina Feder <hidden>
• COLD28d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v16 08/10] powerpc/kexec_file: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() helper
  2026-06-08 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COLD28d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v16 03/10] crash: Add crash_prepare_headers() to exclude crash kernel memory
  2026-06-08 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COLD44d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v15 20/23] powerpc/kexec_file: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() helper
  2026-06-01 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COLD44d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v15 15/23] crash: Add crash_prepare_headers() to exclude crash kernel memory
  2026-06-01 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH v15 10/23] crash_core: Introduce CRASH_HOTPLUG_SAFETY_PADDING for memory hotplug safety
  2026-06-01 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COLD48d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v14 14/17] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-05-25 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COLD48d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v14 09/17] crash: Add crash_prepare_headers() to exclude crash kernel memory
  2026-05-25 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COLD57d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v13 13/15] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-05-11 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COLD57d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v13 08/15] crash: Add crash_prepare_headers() to exclude crash kernel memory
  2026-05-11 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v2 9/9] Documentation: kdump: Add arm64 and ppc64le to encrypted dump target support list
  2026-05-01 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v2 8/9] crash_dump: Disallow configfs/crash_dm_crypt_key/reuse if CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG enabled
  2026-05-01 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• STALE69d [PATCH 11/11] Documentation: admin-guide: kdump: document linux,no-dump DT property
  2026-04-29 · Chen Wandun <hidden>
• STALE89d [PATCH] crash: Support high memory reservation for range syntax
  2026-04-04 · Youling Tang <hidden>
• STALE78d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v12 13/15] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-04-02 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE78d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v12 08/15] crash: Add crash_prepare_headers() to exclude crash kernel memory
  2026-04-02 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE107d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v11 09/11] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-03-28 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE107d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v11 08/11] crash: Exclude crash kernel memory in crash core
  2026-03-28 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE111d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v10 5/8] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-03-25 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE111d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v10 4/8] crash: Exclude crash kernel memory in crash core
  2026-03-25 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE113d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v9 3/5] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-03-23 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE113d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v9 2/5] crash: Exclude crash kernel memory in crash core
  2026-03-23 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE114d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v8 3/5] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-03-02 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE114d REVIEWED: 12 (11M) [PATCH v8 2/5] crash: Exclude crash kernel memory in crash core
  2026-03-02 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE77d REVIEWED: 22 (21M) [PATCHv7 03/18] mm: Rename the 'compound_head' field in the 'struct page' to 'compound_info'
  2026-02-27 · "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org>
• STALE77d REVIEWED: 22 (21M) [PATCHv7 03/18] mm: Rename the 'compound_head' field in the 'struct page' to 'compound_info'
  2026-02-27 · "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org>

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.

• STALE177d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCHv3 04/15] mm: Rename the 'compound_head' field in the 'struct page' to 'compound_info'
  2026-01-15 · Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE168d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCHv4 03/14] mm: Rename the 'compound_head' field in the 'struct page' to 'compound_info'
  2026-01-21 · Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE167d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCHv5 03/17] mm: Rename the 'compound_head' field in the 'struct page' to 'compound_info'
  2026-01-28 · Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE77d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCHv6 03/17] mm: Rename the 'compound_head' field in the 'struct page' to 'compound_info'
  2026-02-02 · Kiryl Shutsemau <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.

• STALE139d [PATCH v6 3/5] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-02-24 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE69d [PATCH 11/11] Documentation: admin-guide: kdump: document linux,no-dump DT property
  2026-04-29 · Chen Wandun <hidden>