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)

• Sourabh Jain <hidden>
  3 attestations (1 Reported-by, 2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-09

Recent patches

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

• COLD27d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 9/9] Documentation: kdump: Add arm64 and ppc64le to encrypted dump target support list
  2026-09-09 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• COLD27d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 8/9] crash_dump: Disallow configfs/crash_dm_crypt_key/reuse if crash hotplug supported
  2026-09-09 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• COLD22d [PATCH v3 14/14] mm/page-flags: remove PG_private
  2026-09-08 · Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
• COLD33d [PATCH v2 14/14] mm/page-flags: remove PG_private
  2026-08-31 · Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
• COLD27d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 9/9] Documentation: kdump: Add arm64 and ppc64le to encrypted dump target support list
  2026-08-28 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• COLD27d [PATCH v4 8/9] crash_dump: Disallow configfs/crash_dm_crypt_key/reuse if crash hotplug supported
  2026-08-28 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• COLD49d [PATCH v2 02/13] crash-core: Flush caches on CRASH_WIPE_SECRETS
  2026-08-11 · Jan Sebastian Götte <hidden>
• COLD49d [PATCH v2 01/13] kexec: add CRASH_WIPE_SECRETS to wipe secrets before kdump
  2026-08-11 · Jan Sebastian Götte <hidden>
• COLD33d [PATCH RFC 14/14] mm/page-flags: remove PG_private
  2026-08-01 · Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
• COLD48d [PATCH v3 10/10] Documentation: kdump: Add arm64 and ppc64le to encrypted dump target support list
  2026-07-29 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• COLD48d [PATCH v3 09/10] crash_dump: Disallow configfs/crash_dm_crypt_key/reuse if crash hotplug supported
  2026-07-29 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• STALE98d REVIEWED: 17 (15M) [PATCH v17 08/10] powerpc/kexec_file: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() helper
  2026-06-29 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE98d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v17 03/10] crash: Add crash_prepare_headers() to exclude crash kernel memory
  2026-06-29 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE74d [PATCH 3/4] riscv: vmcore_info: export riscv arch-specific struct offsets to vmcoreinfo
  2026-06-22 · Pnina Feder <hidden>
• STALE74d [PATCH 4/4] mips: vmcore_info: export mips arch-specific struct offsets to vmcoreinfo
  2026-06-22 · Pnina Feder <hidden>
• STALE74d [PATCH 2/4] vmcoreinfo: export task and mm struct offsets to vmcoreinfo
  2026-06-22 · Pnina Feder <hidden>
• STALE110d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v16 08/10] powerpc/kexec_file: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() helper
  2026-06-08 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE110d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v16 03/10] crash: Add crash_prepare_headers() to exclude crash kernel memory
  2026-06-08 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE126d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v15 20/23] powerpc/kexec_file: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() helper
  2026-06-01 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE126d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v15 15/23] crash: Add crash_prepare_headers() to exclude crash kernel memory
  2026-06-01 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE126d [PATCH v15 10/23] crash_core: Introduce CRASH_HOTPLUG_SAFETY_PADDING for memory hotplug safety
  2026-06-01 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE131d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v14 14/17] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-05-25 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE131d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v14 09/17] crash: Add crash_prepare_headers() to exclude crash kernel memory
  2026-05-25 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE140d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v13 13/15] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-05-11 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE140d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v13 08/15] crash: Add crash_prepare_headers() to exclude crash kernel memory
  2026-05-11 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE88d [PATCH v2 9/9] Documentation: kdump: Add arm64 and ppc64le to encrypted dump target support list
  2026-05-01 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• STALE88d [PATCH v2 8/9] crash_dump: Disallow configfs/crash_dm_crypt_key/reuse if CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG enabled
  2026-05-01 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• STALE152d [PATCH 11/11] Documentation: admin-guide: kdump: document linux,no-dump DT property
  2026-04-29 · Chen Wandun <hidden>
• STALE172d [PATCH] crash: Support high memory reservation for range syntax
  2026-04-04 · Youling Tang <hidden>
• STALE161d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v12 13/15] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-04-02 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>

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.

• STALE152d [PATCH 11/11] Documentation: admin-guide: kdump: document linux,no-dump DT property
  2026-04-29 · Chen Wandun <hidden>
• STALE74d [PATCH 2/4] vmcoreinfo: export task and mm struct offsets to vmcoreinfo
  2026-06-22 · Pnina Feder <hidden>
• STALE74d [PATCH 3/4] riscv: vmcore_info: export riscv arch-specific struct offsets to vmcoreinfo
  2026-06-22 · Pnina Feder <hidden>
• STALE74d [PATCH 4/4] mips: vmcore_info: export mips arch-specific struct offsets to vmcoreinfo
  2026-06-22 · Pnina Feder <hidden>
• COLD49d [PATCH v2 02/13] crash-core: Flush caches on CRASH_WIPE_SECRETS
  2026-08-11 · Jan Sebastian Götte <hidden>