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• F fs/proc/
• F include/linux/proc_fs.h
• F tools/testing/selftests/proc/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• STALE79d [PATCH v3 12/12] treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE91d [PATCH v2 067/110] proc: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE91d [PATCH v2 014/110] proc: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE96d [PATCH 16/61] proc: update /proc/PID/maps for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE270d [PATCH v8 3/5] treewide: Replace 'get_task_comm()' with 'strscpy_pad()'
  2025-08-21 · Bhupesh <hidden>
• STALE258d [PATCH 09/10] mm: convert remaining users to mm_flags_*() accessors
  2025-08-12 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE258d [PATCH 06/10] mm: update coredump logic to correctly use bitmap mm flags
  2025-08-12 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE294d [PATCH v7 3/4] treewide: Replace 'get_task_comm()' with 'strscpy_pad()'
  2025-08-11 · Bhupesh <hidden>
• STALE314d [PATCH v5 3/3] treewide: Switch from tsk->comm to tsk->comm_str which is 64 bytes long
  2025-07-16 · Bhupesh <hidden>
• STALE420d [PATCH v2 2/3] fs/proc: Pass 'task->full_name' via 'proc_task_name()'
  2025-03-31 · Bhupesh <hidden>
• STALE429d [RFC PATCH V3 39/43] rv64ilp32_abi: sysinfo: Adapt sysinfo structure to lp64 uapi
  2025-03-25 · guoren@kernel.org
• STALE429d [RFC PATCH V3 34/43] rv64ilp32_abi: mm: Adapt vm_flags_t struct
  2025-03-25 · guoren@kernel.org
• STALE442d [PATCH RFC 2/2] fs/proc: Pass 'task->full_name' via 'proc_task_name()'
  2025-03-14 · Bhupesh <hidden>
• STALE491d [PATCH] docs,procfs: document /proc/PID/* access permission checks
  2025-01-29 · Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
• STALE616d [PATCH V2 4/7] mm: Use pmdp_get() for accessing PMD entries
  2024-09-17 · Anshuman Khandual <hidden>
• STALE625d [PATCH 4/7] mm: Use pmdp_get() for accessing PMD entries
  2024-09-13 · Anshuman Khandual <hidden>
• STALE1038d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 1/4] mm: factor out VMA stack and heap checks
  2023-07-28 · Kefeng Wang <hidden>
• STALE1051d [PATCH 2/5] mm: use vma_is_stack() and vma_is_heap()
  2023-07-12 · Kefeng Wang <hidden>
• STALE1136d [PATCH v2] mm/gup: disallow GUP writing to file-backed mappings by default
  2023-04-24 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE1136d [PATCH] mm/gup: disallow GUP writing to file-backed mappings by default
  2023-04-22 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE1146d [PATCH v5 14/17] fs/proc: Support COW PTE with clear_refs_write
  2023-04-14 · Chih-En Lin <hidden>
• STALE1205d [PATCH v4 12/14] fs/proc: Support COW PTE with clear_refs_write
  2023-02-07 · Chih-En Lin <hidden>
• STALE1217d [PATCH v2 3/6] mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls
  2023-01-25 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1282d [PATCH mm-unstable v1 20/20] mm: rename FOLL_FORCE to FOLL_PTRACE
  2022-11-16 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE1393d [PATCH 1/5] fs/proc/task_mmu: make functions global to be used in other files
  2022-07-26 · Muhammad Usama Anjum <hidden>
• STALE1416d [PATCH v2 5/5] mm, oom: enable per numa node oom for CONSTRAINT_{MEMORY_POLICY,CPUSET}
  2022-07-08 · Gang Li <hidden>
• STALE1416d [PATCH v2 1/5] mm: add a new parameter `node` to `get/add/inc/dec_mm_counter`
  2022-07-08 · Gang Li <hidden>
• STALE1449d [PATCH 5/5 v1] mm, oom: enable per numa node oom for CONSTRAINT_MEMORY_POLICY
  2022-05-12 · Gang Li <hidden>
• STALE1449d [PATCH 1/5 v1] mm: add a new parameter `node` to `get/add/inc/dec_mm_counter`
  2022-05-12 · Gang Li <hidden>
• STALE1651d [PATCH v2] kthread: dynamically allocate memory to store kthread's full name
  2021-11-20 · Yafang Shao <hidden>

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 16/61] proc: update /proc/PID/maps for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>