live patching · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
• M Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
• M Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
• M Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• R Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-livepatch
• F Documentation/livepatch/
• F arch/powerpc/include/asm/livepatch.h
• F include/linux/livepatch*.h
• F kernel/livepatch/
• F kernel/module/livepatch.c
• F samples/livepatch/
• F scripts/livepatch/
• F tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-29
• Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-29

Recent patches

Most-recent 15 patches in this subsystem on linux-perf-users, ordered by date desc.

• WARM1d REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v4 RESEND 7/7] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-06-29 · Wang Han <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v4 7/7] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-06-29 · Wang Han <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH v3 5/7] kernel: Use mutable list iterators
  2026-06-22 · Kaitao Cheng <hidden>
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v3 8/8] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-06-09 · Wang Han <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v2 8/8] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-05-28 · Wang Han <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH 8/8] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-05-27 · Wang Han <hidden>
• STALE1001d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v10 05/27] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2022-09-27 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1376d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v9 05/27] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2022-08-05 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1402d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v8 05/31] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2022-08-02 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1454d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v7 03/25] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2022-05-23 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1519d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v6 03/23] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2022-05-07 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v2 3/3] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2022-05-06 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1525d [PATCH v1 3/3] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2022-05-05 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1561d [PATCH v5 02/20] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2022-03-17 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1574d [PATCH v4 02/20] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
  2022-02-12 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

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.

• COOLING13d [PATCH 8/8] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-05-27 · Wang Han <hidden>