proc sysctl · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• M Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>

Paths

• F fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
• F include/linux/sysctl.h
• F kernel/sysctl*
• F tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/*
• F lib/test_sysctl.c
• F scripts/check-sysctl-docs

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• STALE96d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE407d [PATCH 05/12] parisc/power: Move soft-power into power.c
  2025-05-09 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE407d [PATCH 06/12] fork: mv threads-max into kernel/fork.c
  2025-05-09 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE518d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-10 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE536d [PATCH] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-09 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE502d [RFC PATCH 5/5] test: add sysctl for folio copy tests and adjust NR_MAX_BATCHED_MIGRATION
  2025-01-03 · Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 3/3] mm/page_alloc: Introduce a new sysctl knob vm.pcp_batch_scale_max
  2024-07-07 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• STALE747d [PATCH 6/8] sysctl: Remove "child" sysctl code comments
  2024-06-04 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE747d [PATCH 5/8] sysctl: Remove superfluous empty allocations from sysctl internals
  2024-06-04 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE747d [PATCH 7/8] sysctl: Remove ctl_table sentinel code comments
  2024-06-04 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE747d [PATCH 8/8] sysctl: Warn on an empty procname element
  2024-06-04 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE747d [PATCH 4/8] sysctl: Replace nr_entries with ctl_table_size in new_links
  2024-06-04 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE747d [PATCH 3/8] sysctl: Remove check for sentinel element in ctl_table arrays
  2024-06-04 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE779d [PATCH v3 10/11] sysctl: constify ctl_table arguments of utility function
  2024-04-23 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE779d [PATCH v3 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-04-23 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE837d [PATCH 10/11] sysctl: constify ctl_table arguments of utility function
  2024-03-15 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE837d [PATCH 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-03-15 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE939d [PATCH v2 0/4] sysctl: Remove sentinel elements from fs dir
  2023-11-21 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE939d [PATCH v2 3/4] sysctl: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  2023-11-21 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE939d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v2 2/4] fs: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  2023-11-21 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE964d [PATCH 3/4] sysctl: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  2023-11-07 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE964d [PATCH 2/4] aio: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  2023-11-07 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE964d [PATCH 0/4] sysctl: Remove sentinel elements from fs dir
  2023-11-07 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE1014d REVIEWED: 12 (10M) [PATCH v7 02/13] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-08-07 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE1036d [PATCH v6 1/7] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-07-25 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE1078d [PATCH v5 1/8] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-07-13 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE1103d [PATCH 08/11] sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl_init
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>
• STALE1091d LANDED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v22 12/31] tty, proc, kernfs, random: Use copy_splice_read()
  2023-05-22 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1091d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v21 12/30] tty, proc, kernfs, random: Use copy_splice_read()
  2023-05-20 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1111d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v20 09/32] tty, proc, kernfs, random: Use direct_splice_read()
  2023-05-19 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.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.

• STALE96d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>