alpha port · Odd Fixes

Maintainers

• M Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
• M Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
• M Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>

Paths

• F arch/alpha/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• COOLING6d [RFC PATCH 00/24] pidfd: add a minimal process spawn builder
  2026-07-16 14:45 · 1 reply in 7d · Li Chen <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-12

Recent patches

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

• COOLING6d [RFC PATCH 22/24] pidfd: expose spawn builder system calls
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [net-next v5 3/4] net: af_unix: useful handling of LSM denials on SCM_RIGHTS
  2026-07-12 · Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
• COOLING10d [PATCH net-next v4 2/3] net: af_unix: useful handling of LSM denials on SCM_RIGHTS
  2026-07-05 · Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
• COLD35d [PATCH 02/19] alpha: define DPS root partition type UUID
  2026-06-15 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• COLD35d [PATCH] vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex numbers in favor of (1 << n) for O_ flags
  2026-06-04 · Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
• STALE84d [RFC PATCH v1 5/9] uaccess: Switch to copy_{to/from}_user_partial() when relevant
  2026-04-27 · "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>
• STALE84d [RFC PATCH v1 2/9] uaccess: Convert INLINE_COPY_{TO/FROM}_USER to kconfig and reduce ifdefery
  2026-04-27 · "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>
• STALE62d [PATCH v6 1/4] openat2: new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag support
  2026-03-28 · Dorjoy Chowdhury <hidden>
• STALE128d [PATCH v5 1/4] openat2: new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag support
  2026-03-07 · Dorjoy Chowdhury <hidden>
• STALE143d [PATCH v4 1/4] openat2: new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag support
  2026-02-21 · Dorjoy Chowdhury <hidden>
• STALE154d [PATCH v4 1/4] openat2: new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag support
  2026-02-06 · Dorjoy Chowdhury <hidden>
• STALE154d [PATCH v3 1/4] open: new O_REGULAR flag support
  2026-01-27 · Dorjoy Chowdhury <hidden>
• STALE177d [PATCH v2 1/2] open: new O_REGULAR flag support
  2026-01-26 · Dorjoy Chowdhury <hidden>
• STALE189d [PATCH v5 67/68] alpha: switch osf_mount() to strndup_user()
  2026-01-14 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE188d REVIEWED: 14 (13M) [PATCH 1/6] uapi: promote EFSCORRUPTED and EUCLEAN to errno.h
  2026-01-13 · "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
• STALE190d [PATCH v4 57/59] alpha: switch osf_mount() to strndup_user()
  2026-01-08 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE182d [PATCH 1/5] arch: add CONFIG_ARCH_USE_CUSTOM_READ_ONCE for arm64/alpha
  2025-12-31 · Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
• STALE191d [PATCH 1/6] uapi: promote EFSCORRUPTED and EUCLEAN to errno.h
  2025-12-18 · "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
• STALE218d [RFC PATCH v3 58/59] alpha: switch osf_mount() to strndup_user()
  2025-12-16 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE245d Re: [RFC][PATCH 10/13] get rid of audit_reusename()
  2025-11-10 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE261d [PATCH v4 20/72] arch: hookup listns() system call
  2025-10-29 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE266d [PATCH v3 18/70] arch: hookup listns() system call
  2025-10-24 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE272d [PATCH v2 17/63] arch: hookup listns() system call
  2025-10-22 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE268d [PATCH RFC DRAFT 16/50] arch: hookup listns() system call
  2025-10-21 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE284d [PATCH] fs: Propagate FMODE_NOCMTIME flag to user-facing O_NOCMTIME
  2025-10-03 · Pavel Emelyanov <hidden>
• STALE285d [PATCH RESEND 55/62] init: rename CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD to CONFIG_INITRAMFS
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE285d [PATCH RESEND 42/62] init: rename <linux/initrd.h> to <linux/initramfs.h>
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE285d [PATCH RESEND 28/62] init: alpha, arc, arm, arm64, csky, m68k, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc, parisc, powerpc, s390, sh, sparc, um, x86, xtensa: rename initrd_{start,end} to virt_external_initramfs_{start,end}
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE285d [PATCH RESEND 27/62] init: alpha: remove "extern unsigned long initrd_start, initrd_end"
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE307d LANDED [PATCH v2 3/4] arch: copy_thread: pass clone_flags as u64
  2025-09-01 · Simon Schuster via B4 Relay <devnull+schuster.simon.siemens-energy.com@kernel.org>

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.

• STALE188d REVIEWED: 14 (13M) [PATCH 1/6] uapi: promote EFSCORRUPTED and EUCLEAN to errno.h
  2026-01-13 · "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org> · 3 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.

• STALE182d [PATCH 1/5] arch: add CONFIG_ARCH_USE_CUSTOM_READ_ONCE for arm64/alpha
  2025-12-31 · Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
• STALE190d [PATCH v4 57/59] alpha: switch osf_mount() to strndup_user()
  2026-01-08 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE189d [PATCH v5 67/68] alpha: switch osf_mount() to strndup_user()
  2026-01-14 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE154d [PATCH v4 1/4] openat2: new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag support
  2026-02-06 · Dorjoy Chowdhury <hidden>
• COLD35d [PATCH 02/19] alpha: define DPS root partition type UUID
  2026-06-15 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>