framebuffer layer · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

Paths

• F Documentation/fb/
• F drivers/video/
• F include/linux/fb.h
• F include/uapi/linux/fb.h
• F include/uapi/video/
• F include/video/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH v4 00/38] mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL
  2026-10-03 16:39 · 1 reply in 7d · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-10-03

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v4 18/38] fbdev: defio: assert FBINFO_VIRTFB, drop VM_IO, add VM_MIXEDMAP
  2026-10-03 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM3d IN LINUX-NEXT: 7 (7M) [PATCH v3 19/40] fbdev: defio: assert FBINFO_VIRTFB, drop VM_IO, add VM_MIXEDMAP
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2 19/40] fbdev: defio: assert FBINFO_VIRTFB, drop VM_IO, add VM_MIXEDMAP
  2026-09-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD22d [PATCH 18/39] fbdev: defio: assert FBINFO_VIRTFB, drop VM_IO, add VM_MIXEDMAP
  2026-09-08 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH 05/13] fbdev: fsl-diu-fb: Don't use GFP_DMA when calling dmam_alloc_coherent()
  2026-09-03 · Baoquan He <hidden>
• STALE73d [PATCH v7 1/8] mm: pass the target mm parameter through get_unmapped_area family
  2026-07-24 · Cong Wang <hidden>
• STALE82d [PATCH v6 1/8] mm: pass the target mm parameter through get_unmapped_area family
  2026-07-15 · Cong Wang <hidden>
• STALE76d IN MM: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 08/13] mm: introduce vma_get_page_prot() and use it
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE86d [PATCH 08/13] mm: introduce vma_get_page_prot() and use it
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE351d [PATCH 3/3] mm, treewide: make addr parameter of free_pages() void *
  2025-10-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE351d [PATCH 2/3] mm, treewide: make get_free_pages() and friends return void *
  2025-10-18 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE488d Re: [syzbot] [mm?] possible deadlock in __vma_start_write
  2025-06-05 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• STALE481d [PATCH v3 4/4] fbdev: hyperv_fb: Fix mmap of framebuffers allocated using alloc_pages()
  2025-05-23 · <hidden>
• STALE481d [PATCH v3 3/4] fbdev/deferred-io: Support contiguous kernel memory framebuffers
  2025-05-23 · <hidden>
• STALE481d [PATCH v3 2/4] fbdev: Add flag indicating framebuffer is allocated from kernel memory
  2025-05-23 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 3/3] fbdev: hyperv_fb: Fix mmap of framebuffers allocated using alloc_pages()
  2025-05-02 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 2/3] fbdev/deferred-io: Support contiguous kernel memory framebuffers
  2025-05-02 · <hidden>
• STALE543d [PATCH 3/3] fbdev: hyperv_fb: Fix mmap of framebuffers allocated using alloc_pages()
  2025-04-08 · <hidden>
• STALE543d [PATCH 2/3] fbdev/deferred-io: Support contiguous kernel memory framebuffers
  2025-04-08 · <hidden>
• STALE552d [PATCH] mm: Rename vm_area_struct to mm_area
  2025-04-01 · "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] fb_defio: do not use deprecated page->mapping, index fields
  2025-02-09 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE604d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v3 3/3] fb_defio: do not use deprecated page->mapping, index fields
  2025-02-08 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE607d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v2 3/3] fb_defio: do not use deprecated page->mapping, index fields
  2025-02-06 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE610d Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/3] fb_defio: do not use deprecated page->mapping, index fields
  2025-02-01 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE609d Re: [PATCH 3/3] fb_defio: do not use deprecated page->mapping, index fields
  2025-02-01 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE609d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 3/3] fb_defio: do not use deprecated page->mapping, index fields
  2025-01-31 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE610d [RFC PATCH v2 3/3] fb_defio: do not use deprecated page->mapping, index fields
  2025-01-13 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE630d [RFC PATCH 3/3] fb_defio: do not use deprecated page->mapping, index fields
  2025-01-08 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE851d [PATCH 3/4] fb_defio: use a folio in fb_deferred_io_work()
  2024-06-04 · Kefeng Wang <hidden>
• STALE851d [PATCH 4/4] mm: remove page_mkclean()
  2024-06-04 · Kefeng Wang <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.

• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2 19/40] fbdev: defio: assert FBINFO_VIRTFB, drop VM_IO, add VM_MIXEDMAP
  2026-09-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@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.

• STALE82d [PATCH v6 1/8] mm: pass the target mm parameter through get_unmapped_area family
  2026-07-15 · Cong Wang <hidden>
• STALE73d [PATCH v7 1/8] mm: pass the target mm parameter through get_unmapped_area family
  2026-07-24 · Cong Wang <hidden>