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Maintainers

• M Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
• R Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/dev-tools/
• F Documentation/maintainer/
• F Documentation/process/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH 00/13] mm/kwatch: dynamic hardware watchpoints for hunting memory corruption
  2026-07-14 18:34 · 1 reply in 7d · Jinchao Wang <hidden>
• WARM2d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH 0/4] mm: kmemleak: reduce transient false positives by confirming leaks
  2026-07-13 11:48 · 1 reply in 7d · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>

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-mm (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH 13/13] Documentation/dev-tools: document KWatch
  2026-07-14 · Jinchao Wang <hidden>
• WARM2d 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>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v3 01/26] kernel: Introduce meminspect
  2026-07-08 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v19 25/40] dept: add documents for dept
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• COOLING12d [PATCH 1/2] mm/kmemleak: report leaks only after N consecutive unreferenced scans
  2026-06-26 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD21d [RFC PATCH 2/2] kasan: hw_tags: Add boot option to elide free time poisoning
  2026-06-12 · Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
• COLD33d [RFC PATCH v2 14/14] Documentation: add kcov-dataflow.rst
  2026-06-11 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• STALE72d [PATCH v6 07/11] kunit: Introduce UAPI testing framework
  2026-05-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE73d [PATCH v4 3/3] Documentation: deprecated.rst: kmalloc-family: mark argument as optional
  2026-04-29 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• STALE73d [PATCH v4 1/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
  2026-04-29 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH] dept: update documentation function names to match implementation
  2026-04-28 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• STALE79d [PATCH v3 3/3] Documentation: deprecated.rst: kmalloc-family: mark argument as optional
  2026-04-24 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• STALE79d [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
  2026-04-24 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COLD49d [PATCH v12 01/15] kasan: sw_tags: Use arithmetic shift for shadow computation
  2026-03-30 · Maciej Wieczor-Retman <hidden>
• STALE120d Re: [PATCH v5 14/15] mm/kasan: add document into kernel-parameters.txt
  2026-03-17 · Baoquan He <hidden>
• COLD55d [PATCH v2 01/25] kernel: Introduce meminspect
  2026-03-10 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• STALE126d [PATCH v11 01/15] kasan: sw_tags: Use arithmetic shift for shadow computation
  2026-03-10 · Maciej Wieczor-Retman <hidden>
• STALE71d Re: [syzbot] [mm?] [f2fs?] [exfat?] memory leak in __kfree_rcu_sheaf
  2026-03-10 · Harry Yoo <hidden>
• STALE71d Re: [syzbot] [mm?] [f2fs?] [exfat?] memory leak in __kfree_rcu_sheaf
  2026-03-09 · Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
• STALE134d [PATCH] kfence: add kfence.fault parameter
  2026-02-25 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE120d [PATCH v5 14/15] mm/kasan: add document into kernel-parameters.txt
  2026-02-25 · Baoquan He <hidden>
• STALE131d [PATCH v10 01/13] kasan: sw_tags: Use arithmetic shift for shadow computation
  2026-02-04 · Maciej Wieczor-Retman <hidden>
• STALE130d [PATCH v4 3/6] kfuzztest: add ReST documentation
  2026-01-12 · Ethan Graham <hidden>
• STALE169d [PATCH v5 24/36] compiler-context-analysis: Remove __cond_lock() function-like helper
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE169d [PATCH v5 23/36] compiler-context-analysis: Remove Sparse support
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE169d [PATCH v5 20/36] locking/ww_mutex: Support Clang's context analysis
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE169d [PATCH v5 19/36] locking/local_lock: Support Clang's context analysis
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE169d [PATCH v5 17/36] locking/rwsem: Support Clang's context analysis
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE169d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v5 15/36] srcu: Support Clang's context analysis
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE169d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v5 14/36] rcu: Support Clang's context analysis
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>

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.

• STALE79d [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
  2026-04-24 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• STALE72d [PATCH v6 07/11] kunit: Introduce UAPI testing framework
  2026-05-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• COLD33d [RFC PATCH v2 14/14] Documentation: add kcov-dataflow.rst
  2026-06-11 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>