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• M Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
• M Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Paths

• F Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
• F Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
• F include/linux/pagemap.h
• F include/linux/writeback.h
• F include/trace/events/filemap.h
• F include/trace/events/readahead.h
• F include/trace/events/writeback.h
• F mm/filemap.c
• F mm/page-writeback.c
• F mm/readahead.c
• F mm/truncate.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 13 patches in this subsystem on linux-efi, ordered by date desc.

• STALE69d [PATCH v3 02/19] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE73d [PATCH v2 02/19] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE104d [PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE104d [PATCH 02/53] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE218d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH RESEND v3] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-12-01 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-11-10 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE241d [PATCH v2] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-11-07 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE2564d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH 1/4] mm/fs: don't allow writes to immutable files
  2019-06-28 · Darrick J. Wong <hidden>
• STALE2569d [PATCH 5/5] vfs: don't allow writes to swap files
  2019-06-26 · Darrick J. Wong <hidden>
• STALE2569d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH 1/5] mm/fs: don't allow writes to immutable files
  2019-06-26 · Darrick J. Wong <hidden>
• STALE2570d [PATCH 7/7] vfs: don't allow writes to swap files
  2019-06-21 · Darrick J. Wong <hidden>
• STALE2570d [PATCH 1/7] mm/fs: don't allow writes to immutable files
  2019-06-21 · Darrick J. Wong <hidden>
• STALE2575d [PATCH 1/6] mm/fs: don't allow writes to immutable files
  2019-06-11 · Darrick J. Wong <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.

• STALE104d [PATCH 02/53] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE104d [PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE73d [PATCH v2 02/19] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE69d [PATCH v3 02/19] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>