tracing · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• M Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• R Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/tracepoint.rst
• F Documentation/trace/*
• F fs/tracefs/
• F include/linux/trace*.h
• F include/trace/
• F kernel/trace/
• F kernel/tracepoint.c
• F scripts/tracing/
• F scripts/tracepoint-update.c
• F tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 16 patches in this subsystem on linux-hams, ordered by date desc.

• STALE84d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 11/12] nilfs2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE84d [PATCH v3 10/12] f2fs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE84d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v3 09/12] ext4: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE84d [PATCH v3 07/12] hugetlbfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE84d [PATCH v3 05/12] cachefiles: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE84d [PATCH v3 04/12] vfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 015/110] nilfs2: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 009/110] f2fs: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 007/110] ext4: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 006/110] trace: reorder TP_STRUCT__entry fields for better packing on 32-bit
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 005/110] trace: store i_ino as u64 instead of ino_t/unsigned long
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE101d [PATCH 17/61] nilfs2: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE101d [PATCH 06/61] f2fs: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE101d [PATCH 04/61] ext4: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE101d [PATCH 03/61] trace: update VFS-layer trace events for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE1081d [PATCH 09/11] sysctl: Remove the end element in sysctl table arrays
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <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.

• STALE84d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v3 09/12] ext4: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE84d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 11/12] nilfs2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> · 1 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 04/61] ext4: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE101d [PATCH 06/61] f2fs: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 005/110] trace: store i_ino as u64 instead of ino_t/unsigned long
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 006/110] trace: reorder TP_STRUCT__entry fields for better packing on 32-bit
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2 009/110] f2fs: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE84d [PATCH v3 05/12] cachefiles: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE84d [PATCH v3 07/12] hugetlbfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE84d [PATCH v3 10/12] f2fs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>