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• F fs/proc/
• F include/linux/proc_fs.h
• F tools/testing/selftests/proc/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• STALE114d REVIEWED: 13 (12M) [PATCH v6 v6 3/3] ext4: allow controlling mballoc stats through proc mb_stats
  2026-05-24 · Baolin Liu <hidden>
• STALE95d [PATCH 02/17] proc: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc()
  2026-05-23 · "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 13 (12M) [PATCH v5 v5 3/3] ext4: allow controlling mballoc stats through proc mb_stats
  2026-05-22 · Baolin Liu <hidden>
• STALE129d REVIEWED: 13 (12M) [PATCH v4 v4 3/3] ext4: allow controlling mballoc stats through proc mb_stats
  2026-05-08 · Baolin Liu <hidden>
• STALE141d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v3 v3 2/2] ext4: allow clearing mballoc stats through mb_stats
  2026-04-22 · Baolin Liu <hidden>
• STALE172d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE182d [PATCH v3 12/12] treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE194d [PATCH v2 067/110] proc: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE194d [PATCH v2 014/110] proc: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE199d [PATCH 16/61] proc: update /proc/PID/maps for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE582d [PATCH v6 19/26] proc/task_mmu: Mark devdax and fsdax pages as always unpinned
  2025-01-10 · Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
• STALE612d [PATCH v5 19/25] proc/task_mmu: Mark devdax and fsdax pages as always unpinned
  2025-01-07 · Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
• STALE615d [PATCH v4 19/25] proc/task_mmu: Ignore ZONE_DEVICE pages
  2024-12-17 · Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
• STALE637d [PATCH v3 18/25] proc/task_mmu: Ignore ZONE_DEVICE pages
  2024-11-22 · Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
• STALE223d LANDED [PATCH v3 1/3] vfs: support caching symlink lengths in inodes
  2024-11-20 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE663d [PATCH v2 1/3] vfs: support caching symlink lengths in inodes
  2024-11-19 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE684d [PATCH 09/12] mm: Update vm_normal_page() callers to accept FS DAX pages
  2024-09-10 · Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
• STALE922d [PATCH 10/13] procfs: make freeing proc_fs_info rcu-delayed
  2024-02-04 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE922d [PATCH 09/13] procfs: move dropping pde and pid from ->evict_inode() to ->free_inode()
  2024-02-04 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE972d [PATCH v6 3/9] fs: Expose name under lookup to d_revalidate hooks
  2023-08-16 · Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <hidden>
• STALE1124d [PATCH v5 04/10] fs: Expose name under lookup to d_revalidate hooks
  2023-08-12 · Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <hidden>
• STALE1090d REVIEWED: 12 (10M) [PATCH v7 02/13] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-08-07 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE1119d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 41/48] fs: super: dynamically allocate the s_shrink
  2023-08-07 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE1143d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 42/49] fs: super: dynamically allocate the s_shrink
  2023-07-27 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE1112d [PATCH v6 1/7] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-07-25 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE1146d [PATCH v2 40/47] fs: super: dynamically allocate the s_shrink
  2023-07-24 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE1154d [PATCH v5 1/8] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-07-13 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE1166d [PATCH 21/29] fs: super: dynamically allocate the s_shrink
  2023-06-22 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE1188d [PATCH v4 1/9] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-05-18 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE1320d [PATCH v2 3/6] mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls
  2023-01-25 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.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.

• STALE141d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v3 v3 2/2] ext4: allow clearing mballoc stats through mb_stats
  2026-04-22 · Baolin Liu <hidden> · 4 Reviewed-by
• STALE114d REVIEWED: 13 (12M) [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.

• STALE199d [PATCH 16/61] proc: update /proc/PID/maps for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE172d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>