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Maintainers

• M Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>
• M Alexey Makhalov <alexey.makhalov@broadcom.com>
• R Broadcom internal kernel review list <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>

Paths

• F arch/x86/include/asm/vmware.h
• F arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-29

Recent patches

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

• COLD25d [PATCH v2 6/6] x86/percpu: Share decrypted storage before guest CPU setup
  2026-09-29 · Zack Rusin <zack.rusin@broadcom.com>
• COLD46d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v6 36/51] x86/paravirt: Pass sched_clock save/restore helpers during registration
  2026-08-06 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COLD46d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 34/51] x86/vmware: NOP-ify save/restore hooks when using VMware's sched_clock
  2026-08-06 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COLD46d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 14/51] x86/tsc: Consolidate forcing of X86_FEATURE_TSC_KNOWN_FREQ for PV code
  2026-08-06 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COLD46d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 11/51] x86/tsc: Add dedicated hypervisor hooks for getting known TSC/CPU frequencies
  2026-08-06 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COLD46d [PATCH v6 02/51] x86/apic: Add CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=n stubs for APIC timer frequency APIs
  2026-08-06 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COLD46d [PATCH v6 01/51] x86/apic: Provide helpers to set local APIC timer frequency in hz and khz
  2026-08-06 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE81d SUPERSEDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 36/51] x86/paravirt: Pass sched_clock save/restore helpers during registration
  2026-07-01 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE81d SUPERSEDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 34/51] x86/vmware: NOP-ify save/restore hooks when using VMware's sched_clock
  2026-07-01 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE81d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v5 14/51] x86/tsc: Consolidate forcing of X86_FEATURE_TSC_KNOWN_FREQ for PV code
  2026-07-01 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE81d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v5 11/51] x86/tsc: Add dedicated hypervisor hooks for getting known TSC/CPU frequencies
  2026-07-01 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE81d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v5 02/51] x86/apic: Add CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=n stubs for apic_set_timer_period_{,k}hz()
  2026-07-01 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE81d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v5 01/51] x86/apic: Provide helpers to set local APIC timer period in hz and khz
  2026-07-01 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE139d SUPERSEDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 33/47] x86/paravirt: Pass sched_clock save/restore helpers during registration
  2026-05-29 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE139d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v4 31/47] x86/vmware: NOP-ify save/restore hooks when using VMware's sched_clock
  2026-05-29 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE139d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v4 10/47] x86/tsc: Consolidate forcing of X86_FEATURE_TSC_KNOWN_FREQ for PV code
  2026-05-29 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE139d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v4 08/47] x86/tsc: Add dedicated hypervisor hooks for getting known TSC/CPU frequencies
  2026-05-29 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE152d SUPERSEDED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v3 31/41] x86/tsc: Pass KNOWN_FREQ and RELIABLE as params to registration
  2026-05-15 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE152d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v3 18/41] x86/paravirt: Pass sched_clock save/restore helpers during registration
  2026-05-15 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE152d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v3 16/41] x86/vmware: Nullify save/restore hooks when using VMware's sched_clock
  2026-05-15 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE152d SUPERSEDED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v3 02/41] x86/tsc: Add helper to register CPU and TSC freq calibration routines
  2026-05-15 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE256d [PATCH 3/3] x86/virt: rename x2apic_available to x2apic_without_ir_available
  2026-02-02 · Shashank Balaji <hidden>
• STALE601d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v2 31/38] x86/tsc: Pass KNOWN_FREQ and RELIABLE as params to registration
  2025-02-27 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE601d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v2 18/38] x86/paravirt: Pass sched_clock save/restore helpers during registration
  2025-02-27 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE601d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v2 16/38] x86/vmware: Nullify save/restore hooks when using VMware's sched_clock
  2025-02-27 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE601d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v2 03/38] x86/tsc: Add helper to register CPU and TSC freq calibration routines
  2025-02-27 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE621d [PATCH 08/16] x86/tsc: Pass KNOWN_FREQ and RELIABLE as params to registration
  2025-02-01 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE621d [PATCH 03/16] x86/tsc: Add helper to register CPU and TSC freq calibration routines
  2025-02-01 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE1477d Re: [PATCH v2] x86/PCI: Prefer MMIO over PIO on all hypervisor
  2022-10-03 · Nadav Amit <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v7 04/14] x86/paravirt: switch time pvops functions to use static_call()
  2021-03-11 · Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.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.

• COLD46d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 11/51] x86/tsc: Add dedicated hypervisor hooks for getting known TSC/CPU frequencies +50 more in this series
  2026-08-06 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> · 1 Reviewed-by