tmpfs (shmem filesystem) · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
• R Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/memfd.h
• F include/linux/shmem_fs.h
• F mm/memfd.c
• F mm/shmem.c
• F mm/shmem_quota.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• STALE139d [PATCH 18/53] shmem: use d_duplicate()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE168d [PATCH v1] mm: annotate data race of f_ra.prev_pos
  2026-02-26 · Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
• STALE160d [PATCH v2 4/4] folio_batch: Rename PAGEVEC_SIZE to FOLIO_BATCH_SIZE
  2026-02-25 · Tal Zussman <hidden>
• STALE160d [PATCH v2 3/4] folio_batch: Rename pagevec.h to folio_batch.h
  2026-02-25 · Tal Zussman <hidden>
• STALE183d Re: [PATCH v2 08/13] mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t
  2026-01-23 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE183d [PATCH v2 08/13] mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t
  2026-01-22 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE183d [PATCH v2 06/13] mm: update hugetlbfs to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
  2026-01-22 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE203d [PATCH RESEND 07/12] mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t
  2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE203d [PATCH RESEND 05/12] mm: update hugetlbfs to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
  2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE203d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v2 03/31] tmpfs: add EXPORT_OP_STABLE_HANDLES flag to export operations
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE205d [PATCH 07/12] mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t
  2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE205d [PATCH 05/12] mm: update hugetlbfs to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
  2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE202d [PATCH 02/29] tmpfs: add EXPORT_OP_STABLE_HANDLES flag to export operations
  2026-01-15 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE160d [PATCH 19/24] tmpfs: add setlease file operation
  2026-01-08 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE253d 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>
• STALE276d [PATCH v2] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-11-07 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE279d [PATCH v2 4/4] tmpfs: opt-in for IOP_MAY_FAST_EXEC
  2025-11-06 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE279d [PATCH] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-11-05 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [WIP PATCH] fs: speed up path lookup with cheaper MAY_EXEC checks
  2025-11-05 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE392d LANDED [PATCH v6 3/5] fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
  2025-07-16 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE393d [PATCH v5 3/5] fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
  2025-07-10 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE401d [PATCH v4 3/5] fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
  2025-07-07 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE406d [PATCH v3 3/4] fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
  2025-06-27 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE412d [PATCH v2 3/5] fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
  2025-06-24 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE191d LANDED [PATCH v3 3/3] tmpfs: use inode_set_cached_link()
  2024-11-20 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE630d [PATCH v2 3/3] tmpfs: use inode_set_cached_link()
  2024-11-19 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH v8 8/9] tmpfs: Expose filesystem features via sysfs
  2024-10-31 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE650d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v8 8/9] tmpfs: Expose filesystem features via sysfs
  2024-10-21 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE650d LANDED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v8 7/9] tmpfs: Add flag FS_CASEFOLD_FL support for tmpfs dirs
  2024-10-21 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>

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.

• STALE205d [PATCH 05/12] mm: update hugetlbfs to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
  2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE205d [PATCH 07/12] mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t
  2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE203d [PATCH RESEND 05/12] mm: update hugetlbfs to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
  2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE203d [PATCH RESEND 07/12] mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t
  2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE183d Re: [PATCH v2 08/13] mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t
  2026-01-23 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE139d [PATCH 18/53] shmem: use d_duplicate()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>