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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v22 00/10] Hierarchical Percpu Counters for RSS
  2026-09-04 16:07 · 3 replies in 7d · Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
• HOTtoday [RFC 0/2] mm: add explicit goals to memcg memory.reclaim
  2026-09-04 06:53 · 2 replies in 7d · Li Zhe <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] docs: maple_tree: Replace removed bulk insertion API
  2026-09-05 01:55 · 0 replies in 7d · Karl Mehltretter <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v9 0/6] selftests/mm: separate GUP microbenchmarking from functional testing
  2026-09-04 12:37 · 1 reply in 7d · Sarthak Sharma <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: Fix bracket
  2026-09-03 06:34 · 1 reply in 7d · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 0/8] mm/page_owner: Add PID/TGID/COMM and cgroup filtering
  2026-09-03 04:19 · 1 reply in 7d · Zhen Ni <hidden>
• WARM3d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v1.1 00/17] mm/damon: introduce data access-as-a-data attribute
  2026-09-01 13:25 · 3 replies in 7d · SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH 0/3] Fix HugeTLB subpool used_hpages tracking
  2026-09-02 23:30 · 1 reply in 7d · Ackerley Tng via B4 Relay <devnull+ackerleytng.google.com@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH v12 00/45] guest_memfd: In-place conversion support
  2026-08-31 00:25 · 7 replies in 7d · Ackerley Tng via B4 Relay <devnull+ackerleytng.google.com@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 00/17] mm/damon: introduce data access-as-a-data attribute
  2026-09-01 04:34 · 3 replies in 7d · SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Shivank Garg <hidden>
  14 attestations (14 Tested-by) · last on 2026-08-31
• David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
  12 attestations (6 Acked-by, 6 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-04
• Fuad Tabba <hidden>
  8 attestations (8 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-31
• SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
  7 attestations (1 Acked-by, 6 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-02
• Vishal Annapurve <hidden>
  6 attestations (6 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-08-31
• Xiaoyao Li <hidden>
  6 attestations (4 Reviewed-by, 2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-08-31
• Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
  6 attestations (5 Co-developed-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-08-31
• Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
  6 attestations (3 Reviewed-by, 3 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-08-31
• Binbin Wu <hidden>
  5 attestations (5 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-31
• Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
  4 attestations (2 Reviewed-by, 2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-08-31

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH] docs: maple_tree: Replace removed bulk insertion API
  2026-09-05 · Karl Mehltretter <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v22 01/10] lib: introduce hierarchical per-cpu counters
  2026-09-04 · Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v22 07/10] lib/hpcc: Document that accuracy is a property of settled counters
  2026-09-04 · Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v22 09/10] lib/hpcc: Introduce wrapped delta helper
  2026-09-04 · Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 28 (27M) [PATCH v9 4/6] tools/mm: move gup_test from selftests/mm to tools/mm
  2026-09-04 · Sarthak Sharma <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [RFC 2/2] mm: add goal=demote to memory.reclaim
  2026-09-04 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• HOTtoday [RFC 1/2] mm: add goal=evict to memory.reclaim
  2026-09-04 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• WARM1d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: Fix bracket
  2026-09-03 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 8/8] Documentation: page_owner: Document PID/TGID/COMM and cgroup filters
  2026-09-03 · Zhen Ni <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH 1/3] mm: hugetlb: Track used_hpages when getting/putting pages from subpool
  2026-09-02 · Ackerley Tng via B4 Relay <devnull+ackerleytng.google.com@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH RFC v3 2/8] Documentation: add kcov-dataflow.rst
  2026-09-02 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: Fix bracket
  2026-09-02 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH] docs: locking: Fix bracket
  2026-09-02 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH] Docs/mm/damon/design: fix broken :ref: usage and a typo
  2026-09-02 · Zenghui Yu <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH RFC v3 21/21] Documentation: mm: clarify behaviour of compile-time folded page tables
  2026-09-02 · Yeoreum Yun <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH RFC 11/11] mm/migrate: pass migrate_control to migrate_folio()
  2026-09-02 · Shivank Garg <hidden>
• WARM2d IN LINUX-NEXT: 17 (17M) [PATCH v2 1/2] docs/core-api: memory-allocation: add k[mz]alloc_obj() and clarify kmalloc
  2026-09-02 · "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
• WARM2d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH 11/12] Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: update AI review for Sashiko replies
  2026-09-02 · SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH v21 1/6] lib: introduce hierarchical per-cpu counters
  2026-09-01 · Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
• WARM3d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v1.1 16/17] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document probe preps sysfs files
  2026-09-01 · SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
• WARM3d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v1.1 15/17] Docs/mm/damon/design: document probe preps
  2026-09-01 · SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
• WARM3d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v1.1 04/17] Docs/mm/damon/design: document pgidle_unset probe filter type
  2026-09-01 · SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
• WARM3d [PATCH 12/12] mm: change the contract for free_pgtables(), update docs
  2026-09-01 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 4 (1M) [PATCH v8 2/2] mm/memory_hotplug: optimize zone contiguous check when changing pfn range
  2026-09-01 · Yuan Liu <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 15/17] Docs/mm/damon/design: document probe preps
  2026-09-01 · SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 16/17] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document probe preps sysfs files
  2026-09-01 · SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 04/17] Docs/mm/damon/design: document pgidle_unset probe filter type
  2026-09-01 · SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 25 (25M) [PATCH v7 01/14] docs: tmpfs: remove implementation detail reference
  2026-09-01 · Luiz Capitulino <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v2 14/14] mm/page-flags: remove PG_private
  2026-08-31 · Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
• WARM2d [PATCH 1/2] docs/core-api: memory-allocation: add k[mz]alloc_obj() and clarify kmalloc
  2026-08-31 · "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@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.

• STALE128d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCHv7 17/18] hugetlb: Update vmemmap_dedup.rst
  2026-02-27 · "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE128d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCHv7 17/18] hugetlb: Update vmemmap_dedup.rst
  2026-02-27 · "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE128d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCHv7.1 17/18] hugetlb: Update vmemmap_dedup.rst
  2026-03-02 · "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE179d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v7 6/6] kho: document kexec-metadata tracking feature
  2026-03-06 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE148d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v8 2/6] kho: rename fdt parameter to blob in kho_add/remove_subtree()
  2026-03-09 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE148d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v8 6/6] kho: document kexec-metadata tracking feature
  2026-03-09 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2] Docs/mm/damon: document exclusivity of special-purpose modules
  2026-03-15 · SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE170d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [RFC PATCH v2 1/1] mm/damon: support MADV_COLLAPSE via DAMOS_COLLAPSE scheme action
  2026-03-16 · <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2] Docs/mm/damon/design: document DAMON actions when TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is off
  2026-03-18 · SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE149d REVIEWED: 8 (3M) [PATCH] mm/memory hotplug/unplug: Optimize zone contiguous check when changing pfn range
  2026-03-19 · Yuan Liu <hidden> · 6 Reviewed-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.

• STALE190d [RFC PATCH 4/5] Docs/mm/damon/design: document the goal-based quota tuner selections
  2026-02-12 · SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
• STALE190d [RFC PATCH 5/5] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document goal_tuner sysfs file
  2026-02-12 · SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
• STALE199d [PATCH v4 2/4] mm: swap: associate swap devices with tiers
  2026-02-17 · Youngjun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com>
• STALE189d [PATCH v17 1/3] lib: Introduce hierarchical per-cpu counters
  2026-02-17 · Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
• STALE172d [PATCH RFC 02/19] x86/mm: Generalize LDT remap into "mm-local region"
  2026-02-25 · Brendan Jackman <hidden>
• STALE172d [PATCH v3 3/3] Documentation: add instructions for using 'drop_fs_caches sysctl' sysctl
  2026-02-27 · Ye Bin <hidden>
• STALE178d [PATCH 4/5] zram: update recompression documentation
  2026-02-27 · Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
• STALE178d [PATCH 5/5] zram: remove chained recompression
  2026-02-27 · Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
• STALE189d [PATCH v18 1/3] lib: Introduce hierarchical per-cpu counters
  2026-02-27 · Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] Documentation: fix a hugetlbfs reservation statement
  2026-03-02 · Jane Chu <hidden>