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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH v2 00/17] fscrypt: Standardize on blk-crypto
  2026-07-05 19:47 · 2 replies in 7d · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v19 00/40] DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2026-07-06 06:20 · 1 reply in 7d · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-05

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-ext4 (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• HOTtoday [PATCH v19 25/40] dept: add documents for dept
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v2 06/17] Documentation: fscrypt: Update docs for inlinecrypt
  2026-07-05 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• WARM1d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 04/17] fscrypt: Fully disallow IV_INO_LBLK_32 with s_blocksize != PAGE_SIZE
  2026-07-05 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
  2026-06-26 · dardaoe <hidden>
• COOLING10d [PATCH 04/16] fscrypt: Fully disallow IV_INO_LBLK_32 with s_blocksize != PAGE_SIZE
  2026-06-24 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COOLING10d [PATCH 05/16] fscrypt: Always use blk-crypto for contents on block-based filesystems
  2026-06-24 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COOLING5d [PATCH 2/2] tracing: Add CONFIG_TRACE_PRINTK_DEBUGGING to clean up kernel.h
  2026-06-21 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>
• COLD44d REVIEWED: 12 (11M) [PATCH v6 v6 3/3] ext4: allow controlling mballoc stats through proc mb_stats
  2026-05-24 · Baolin Liu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 12 (11M) [PATCH v5 v5 3/3] ext4: allow controlling mballoc stats through proc mb_stats
  2026-05-22 · Baolin Liu <hidden>
• COLD49d [PATCH 03/12] swap,fs: move swapfile operations to struct file_operations
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD49d [PATCH 02/12] swap: move boilerplate code into the core swap code
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD59d REVIEWED: 12 (11M) [PATCH v4 v4 3/3] ext4: allow controlling mballoc stats through proc mb_stats
  2026-05-08 · Baolin Liu <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] dept: update documentation function names to match implementation
  2026-04-28 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• STALE71d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v3 v3 2/2] ext4: allow clearing mballoc stats through mb_stats
  2026-04-22 · Baolin Liu <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 51/53] VFS: use d_alloc_parallel() in lookup_one_qstr_excl().
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 50/53] VFS: remove lookup_one() and lookup_noperm()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 49/53] VFS: remove d_rehash()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 47/53] VFS: make d_alloc() local to VFS.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 02/53] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 01/53] VFS: fix various typos in documentation for start_creating start_removing etc
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE166d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v2 02/31] exportfs: add new EXPORT_OP_STABLE_HANDLES flag
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE166d [PATCH v2 01/31] Documentation: document EXPORT_OP_NOLOCKS
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE123d [PATCH 23/24] filelock: default to returning -EINVAL when ->setlease operation is NULL
  2026-01-08 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE199d [PATCH] doc : fix a broken link in ext2.rst
  2025-12-17 · Ziran Zhang <hidden>
• HOTtoday Re: [PATCH v18 25/42] dept: add documents for dept
  2025-12-06 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v18 25/42] dept: add documents for dept
  2025-12-05 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE215d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH RESEND v3] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-12-01 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE217d [PATCH] Documentation: ext4: Document casefold and encrypt flags
  2025-11-19 · Daniel Tang <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.

• STALE166d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v2 02/31] exportfs: add new EXPORT_OP_STABLE_HANDLES flag
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE71d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v3 v3 2/2] ext4: allow clearing mballoc stats through mb_stats
  2026-04-22 · Baolin Liu <hidden> · 4 Reviewed-by
• COLD44d REVIEWED: 12 (11M) [PATCH v6 v6 3/3] ext4: allow controlling mballoc stats through proc mb_stats
  2026-05-24 · Baolin Liu <hidden> · 6 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.

• STALE101d [PATCH 01/53] VFS: fix various typos in documentation for start_creating start_removing etc
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 02/53] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 47/53] VFS: make d_alloc() local to VFS.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 49/53] VFS: remove d_rehash()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 50/53] VFS: remove lookup_one() and lookup_noperm()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH 51/53] VFS: use d_alloc_parallel() in lookup_one_qstr_excl().
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>