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• R Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

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Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-13

Recent patches

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

• COOLING5d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation: kmemleak: document the conditional min_unref_scans default
  2026-07-31 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD26d IN LINUX-NEXT: 3 (3M) [PATCH 2/4] mm: kmemleak: report leaks only after N consecutive unreferenced scans
  2026-07-13 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD40d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: kunit: Fix outdated FAQ entries
  2026-06-27 · David Gow <david@davidgow.net>
• COLD40d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: kunit: Test Kconfig entries shouldn't select other configs
  2026-06-27 · David Gow <david@davidgow.net>
• COLD36d [PATCH 1/2] mm/kmemleak: report leaks only after N consecutive unreferenced scans
  2026-06-26 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD51d [PATCH] kselftest docs: remove reference to obsolete/archived wiki
  2026-06-17 · Rafael Passos <hidden>
• COLD57d [RFC PATCH v2 14/14] Documentation: add kcov-dataflow.rst
  2026-06-11 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• COLD59d IN LINUX-NEXT: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 2/2] kunit: tool: Add (primitive) support for outputting JUnit XML
  2026-06-06 · David Gow <david@davidgow.net>
• STALE64d [PATCH v3 2/2] kunit: tool: Add (primitive) support for outputting JUnit XML
  2026-06-04 · David Gow <david@davidgow.net>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4 11/11] kernel/api: add syscall enter/exit tracepoints
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE71d [PATCH v4 04/11] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE71d [PATCH v4 03/11] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE71d [PATCH v4 02/11] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE71d [PATCH v4 01/11] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD43d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v13 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-15 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• STALE85d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v12 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-15 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• STALE85d IN LINUX-NEXT: 5 (2M) [PATCH v11 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-14 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• STALE86d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v10 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-13 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• STALE88d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v9 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-08 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• STALE96d [PATCH v6 07/11] kunit: Introduce UAPI testing framework
  2026-05-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE87d REVIEWED: 6 (2M) [PATCH v8 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-04 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• STALE95d [PATCH v3 4/9] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE95d [PATCH v3 3/9] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE95d [PATCH v3 2/9] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE95d [PATCH v3 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE106d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v7 5/5] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-04-20 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• STALE96d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH] docs: kselftest: Document the FORCE_TARGETS build variable
  2026-04-17 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• STALE100d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2 17/33] rust: bump `bindgen` minimum supported version to 0.71.1 (Debian Trixie)
  2026-04-05 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE100d REVIEWED: 36 (36M) [PATCH v2 05/33] rust: bump Rust minimum supported version to 1.85.0 (Debian Trixie)
  2026-04-05 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE124d [PATCH 14/33] rust: bump `bindgen` minimum supported version to 0.71.1 (Debian Trixie)
  2026-04-01 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@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.

• STALE143d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v6 5/5] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-03-17 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE106d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v7 5/5] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-04-20 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE87d REVIEWED: 6 (2M) [PATCH v8 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-04 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 3 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE88d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v9 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-08 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE86d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v10 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-13 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE85d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v12 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-15 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• COLD43d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v13 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-15 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-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.

• STALE122d [PATCH 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE137d [PATCH v2 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE137d [PATCH v2 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE95d [PATCH v3 3/9] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE95d [PATCH v3 4/9] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE96d [PATCH v6 07/11] kunit: Introduce UAPI testing framework
  2026-05-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE71d [PATCH v4 01/11] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE71d [PATCH v4 02/11] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE71d [PATCH v4 03/11] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE71d [PATCH v4 04/11] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>