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Maintainers

• M Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
• M Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Paths

• F Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
• F Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
• F include/linux/pagemap.h
• F include/linux/writeback.h
• F include/trace/events/filemap.h
• F include/trace/events/readahead.h
• F include/trace/events/writeback.h
• F mm/filemap.c
• F mm/page-writeback.c
• F mm/readahead.c
• F mm/truncate.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• STALE135d [PATCH v3 04/12] vfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE148d [PATCH v2 006/110] trace: reorder TP_STRUCT__entry fields for better packing on 32-bit
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE148d [PATCH v2 005/110] trace: store i_ino as u64 instead of ino_t/unsigned long
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE152d [PATCH 03/61] trace: update VFS-layer trace events for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE170d [PATCH v2 10/13] mm: make vm_area_desc utilise vma_flags_t only
  2026-01-22 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE189d [PATCH RESEND 09/12] mm: make vm_area_desc utilise vma_flags_t only
  2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE191d [PATCH 09/12] mm: make vm_area_desc utilise vma_flags_t only
  2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE233d LANDED: 3 (0M) [PATCH kvm-next V11 2/7] mm/filemap: Extend __filemap_get_folio() to support NUMA memory policies
  2025-08-27 · Shivank Garg <hidden>
• STALE233d LANDED: 3 (0M) [PATCH kvm-next V11 1/7] mm/filemap: Add NUMA mempolicy support to filemap_alloc_folio()
  2025-08-27 · Shivank Garg <hidden>
• STALE351d REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH RFC V10 2/7] mm/filemap: Extend __filemap_get_folio() to support NUMA memory policies
  2025-08-11 · Shivank Garg <hidden>
• STALE351d REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH RFC V10 1/7] mm/filemap: Add NUMA mempolicy support to filemap_alloc_folio()
  2025-08-11 · Shivank Garg <hidden>
• STALE353d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH V9 3/7] mm/filemap: Extend __filemap_get_folio() to support NUMA memory policies
  2025-07-13 · Shivank Garg <hidden>
• STALE353d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH V9 2/7] mm/filemap: Add NUMA mempolicy support to filemap_alloc_folio()
  2025-07-13 · Shivank Garg <hidden>
• STALE402d [PATCH 1/2] filemap: Add a mempolicy argument to filemap_alloc_folio()
  2025-06-20 · "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE402d [PATCH 2/2] filemap: Add __filemap_get_folio_mpol()
  2025-06-20 · "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE402d [RFC PATCH v8 3/7] mm/filemap: Add mempolicy support to the filemap layer
  2025-06-18 · Shivank Garg <hidden>
• STALE448d [PATCH RFC v7 1/8] mm/filemap: Add mempolicy support to the filemap layer
  2025-04-08 · Shivank Garg <hidden>
• STALE540d REVIEWED: 23 (23M) [PATCH v5 -next 09/16] fs: fs-writeback: move sysctl to fs/fs-writeback.c
  2025-01-11 · Kaixiong Yu <hidden>
• STALE540d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v5 -next 02/16] mm: filemap: move sysctl to mm/filemap.c
  2025-01-11 · Kaixiong Yu <hidden>
• STALE547d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-10 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE566d [PATCH] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-09 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE567d REVIEWED: 23 (23M) [PATCH v4 -next 09/15] fs: fs-writeback: move sysctl to fs/fs-writeback.c
  2024-12-28 · Kaixiong Yu <hidden>
• STALE567d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v4 -next 02/15] mm: filemap: move sysctl to mm/filemap.c
  2024-12-28 · Kaixiong Yu <hidden>
• STALE567d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v4 -next 02/15] mm: filemap: move sysctl to mm/filemap.c
  2024-12-23 · Kaixiong Yu <hidden>
• STALE567d REVIEWED: 23 (23M) [PATCH v4 -next 09/15] fs: fs-writeback: move sysctl to fs/fs-writeback.c
  2024-12-23 · Kaixiong Yu <hidden>
• STALE567d REVIEWED: 23 (23M) [PATCH v4 -next 09/15] fs: fs-writeback: move sysctl to fs/fs-writeback.c
  2024-12-23 · Kaixiong Yu <hidden>
• STALE567d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v4 -next 02/15] mm: filemap: move sysctl to mm/filemap.c
  2024-12-23 · Kaixiong Yu <hidden>
• STALE588d [RFC v2] lsm: fs: Use inode_free_callback to free i_security in RCU callback
  2024-12-18 · Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
• STALE590d [RFC] lsm: fs: Use i_callback to free i_security in RCU callback
  2024-12-16 · Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
• STALE588d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v3 -next 09/15] fs: fs-writeback: move sysctl to fs/fs-writeback.c
  2024-10-10 · Kaixiong Yu <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.

• STALE191d [PATCH 09/12] mm: make vm_area_desc utilise vma_flags_t only
  2026-01-19 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE148d [PATCH v2 005/110] trace: store i_ino as u64 instead of ino_t/unsigned long
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE148d [PATCH v2 006/110] trace: reorder TP_STRUCT__entry fields for better packing on 32-bit
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>