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• M Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
• R Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 0/1] Documentation: Add real-time kernel configuration guide
  2026-07-15 15:01 · 1 reply in 7d · "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwi@linutronix.de>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 0/6] printk: nbcon: deprecate boot_delay in favour of printk_delay
  2026-07-12 10:20 · 2 replies in 7d · Andrew Murray <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-12
• Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-03

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 1/1] Documentation: real-time: Add kernel configuration guide
  2026-07-15 · "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwi@linutronix.de>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 6/6] Documentation/kernel-parameters: add/update printk_delay/boot_delay
  2026-07-12 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 3/6] printk: remove BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY config option
  2026-07-12 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v19 25/40] dept: add documents for dept
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• HOTtoday IN LINUX-NEXT: 9 (9M) [PATCH v5 14/18] mm: Move __alloc_pages() to mm/page_alloc.h
  2026-07-03 · Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
• COOLING12d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v4 14/18] mm: Move __alloc_pages() to mm/page_alloc.h
  2026-07-02 · Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH] Documentation: Extend the real-time hardware bits with some firmware bits
  2026-07-01 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 4/4] Documentation/kernel-parameters: add/update printk_delay/boot_delay
  2026-06-30 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 1/4] printk: remove BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY config option
  2026-06-30 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v3 14/16] mm: Move __alloc_pages() to mm/page_alloc.h
  2026-06-29 · Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
• COLD18d [PATCH v2 12/13] mm: Move __alloc_pages() to mm/internal.h
  2026-06-22 · Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] Documentation: realtime.rst: adopt type aware kmalloc
  2026-06-03 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COLD30d [PATCH] Documentation: index.rst: add entry of other sub-directory
  2026-06-03 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH RFC 4/4] Documentation/kernel-parameters: add/update printk_delay/boot_delay
  2026-05-31 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH RFC 1/4] printk: remove BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY config option
  2026-05-31 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• COLD43d [PATCH v1] docs: real-time: Fix duplicated sched(7) text
  2026-05-31 · Costa Shulyupin <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v4 1/4] Introducing pw_lock() and per-cpu queue & flush work
  2026-05-19 · Leonardo Bras <hidden>
• STALE62d [PATCH RFC] printk: remove BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
  2026-05-05 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH] dept: update documentation function names to match implementation
  2026-04-28 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• STALE62d [PATCH v4 1/1] Documentation: real-time: Add kernel configuration guide
  2026-04-14 · "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwi@linutronix.de>
• STALE62d [PATCH v3 1/1] Documentation: real-time: Add kernel configuration guide
  2026-04-14 · "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwi@linutronix.de>
• STALE62d [PATCH v2 1/1] Documentation: real-time: Add kernel configuration guide
  2026-04-14 · "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwi@linutronix.de>
• STALE93d [PATCH] Documentation: core-api: real-time: correct spelling
  2026-04-11 · Sukrut Heroorkar <hidden>
• STALE131d [PATCH v1 1/1] Documentation: real-time: Add kernel configuration guide
  2026-03-05 · "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwi@linutronix.de>
• COOLING9d Re: [PATCH v18 25/42] dept: add documents for dept
  2025-12-06 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v18 25/42] dept: add documents for dept
  2025-12-05 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE204d [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation: update config name in real-time architecture support
  2025-11-27 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE204d REVIEWED: 18 (17M) [PATCH v2 1/3] Documentation: Add some hardware hints for real-time
  2025-11-27 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE236d [PATCH 2/3] Documentation: update config name in real-time architecture support
  2025-11-20 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE236d [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: Add some hardware hints for real-time
  2025-11-20 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

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.

• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 1/4] printk: remove BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY config option
  2026-06-30 · Andrew Murray <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 4/4] Documentation/kernel-parameters: add/update printk_delay/boot_delay
  2026-06-30 · Andrew Murray <hidden> · 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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] Documentation: realtime.rst: adopt type aware kmalloc
  2026-06-03 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>