shrinker · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
• M Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
• R Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
• R Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
• R Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>

Paths

• F Documentation/admin-guide/mm/shrinker_debugfs.rst
• F include/linux/list_lru.h
• F include/linux/shrinker.h
• F mm/list_lru.c
• F mm/shrinker.c
• F mm/shrinker_debug.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• STALE100d [PATCH v3 1/3] mm/vmscan: introduce drop_sb_dentry_inode() helper
  2026-02-27 · Ye Bin <hidden>
• STALE124d [PATCH 3/5] mm: export zap_page_range_single and list_lru_add/del
  2026-02-05 · Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
• STALE499d [RFC PATCH 4/6] debugfs: Automated conversion from dentry to debugfs_node
  2025-02-10 · David Reaver <hidden>
• STALE527d LANDED [PATCH v2 21/21] saner replacement for debugfs_rename()
  2025-01-12 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE527d [PATCH 20/20] saner replacement for debugfs_rename()
  2024-12-29 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE665d [PATCH 05/10] mm: shrinker: Add shrinker_to_text() to debugfs interface
  2024-08-24 · Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
• STALE665d [PATCH 03/10] mm: shrinker: Add new stats for .to_text()
  2024-08-24 · Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
• STALE665d [PATCH 02/10] mm: shrinker: Add a .to_text() method for shrinkers
  2024-08-24 · Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
• STALE669d [PATCH 05/10] mm: shrinker: Add shrinker_to_text() to debugfs interface
  2024-08-24 · Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
• STALE669d [PATCH 03/10] mm: shrinker: Add new stats for .to_text()
  2024-08-24 · Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
• STALE669d [PATCH 02/10] mm: shrinker: Add a .to_text() method for shrinkers
  2024-08-24 · Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
• STALE931d Re: [PATCH v6 42/45] mm: shrinker: make global slab shrink lockless
  2023-12-06 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE931d Re: [PATCH] fixup: mm: shrinker: add a secondary array for shrinker_info::{map, nr_deferred}
  2023-09-28 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE931d [PATCH] fixup: mm: shrinker: add a secondary array for shrinker_info::{map, nr_deferred}
  2023-09-28 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE931d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] mm: shrinker: some cleanup
  2023-09-19 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE931d Re: [PATCH v6 01/45] mm: shrinker: add infrastructure for dynamically allocating shrinker
  2023-09-18 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE931d [PATCH v6 42/45] mm: shrinker: make global slab shrink lockless
  2023-09-11 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE931d [PATCH v6 44/45] mm: shrinker: hold write lock to reparent shrinker nr_deferred
  2023-09-11 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE931d [PATCH v6 43/45] mm: shrinker: make memcg slab shrink lockless
  2023-09-11 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE1016d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 3/4] mm: shrinker: remove redundant shrinker_rwsem in debugfs operations
  2023-09-11 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE931d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 39/45] mm: shrinker: remove old APIs
  2023-09-11 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE1016d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 1/4] mm: move some shrinker-related function declarations to mm/internal.h
  2023-09-11 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE931d [PATCH v6 45/45] mm: shrinker: convert shrinker_rwsem to mutex
  2023-09-11 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE931d [PATCH v6 01/45] mm: shrinker: add infrastructure for dynamically allocating shrinker
  2023-09-11 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE931d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 40/45] mm: shrinker: add a secondary array for shrinker_info::{map, nr_deferred}
  2023-09-11 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE1016d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v4 4/4] drm/ttm: introduce pool_shrink_rwsem
  2023-09-11 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE931d [PATCH v6 41/45] mm: shrinker: rename {prealloc|unregister}_memcg_shrinker() to shrinker_memcg_{alloc|remove}()
  2023-09-11 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE1016d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 2/4] mm: vmscan: move shrinker-related code into a separate file
  2023-09-11 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE1028d [PATCH v5 44/45] mm: shrinker: hold write lock to reparent shrinker nr_deferred
  2023-08-24 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• STALE1028d [PATCH v5 43/45] mm: shrinker: make memcg slab shrink lockless
  2023-08-24 · Qi Zheng <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.

• STALE100d [PATCH v3 1/3] mm/vmscan: introduce drop_sb_dentry_inode() helper
  2026-02-27 · Ye Bin <hidden>