scheduler · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
• M Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
• M Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
• M Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
• R Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
• R Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• R Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
• R Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
• R Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
• R K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/preempt.h
• F include/linux/sched.h
• F include/linux/wait.h
• F include/uapi/linux/sched.h
• F kernel/fork.c
• F kernel/sched/
• F tools/sched/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 0/8] sched: introduce for_each_process_rculock and for_each_thread_rculock
  2026-09-07 08:14 · 1 reply in 7d · Ye Liu <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-07

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 5/8] kernel: convert process/thread iterators to for_each_*_rculock
  2026-09-07 · Ye Liu <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v2 1/3] fs: Introduce task path helpers
  2026-08-31 · Chen Linxuan <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH RFC 1/3] fs: Introduce task path helpers
  2026-08-20 · Chen Linxuan via B4 Relay <devnull+me.black-desk.cn@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d [PATCH] cred: clarify that task_struct::cred is only for the current task
  2026-08-06 · Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
• COOLING12d [PATCH v4] security: Expand task_setscheduler LSM hook
  2026-07-20 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• COOLING4d [RFC PATCH 13/24] fork: let new tasks start with task work
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COOLING4d [RFC PATCH 12/24] fork: let kernel callers create embryonic tasks
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COOLING4d [RFC PATCH 09/24] fork: let process builders supply preallocated pids
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COOLING4d [RFC PATCH 07/24] fork: expose vfork completion helper
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• STALE101d [PATCH] fork: Ensure copy_process() returns a valid error pointer on failure
  2026-06-01 · Shijia Hu <hidden>
• STALE85d [PATCH v3] security: Expand task_setscheduler LSM hook to include CPU affinity mask
  2026-05-26 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE91d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE117d [PATCH v2 2/3] security: Expand task_setscheduler LSM hook to include CPU affinity mask
  2026-05-09 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE120d [PATCH 2/3] security: Expand task_setscheduler LSM hook to include CPU affinity mask
  2026-05-09 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE125d [RFC PATCH v1 03/11] nsproxy: Add FOR_EACH_NS_TYPE() X-macro and CLONE_NS_ALL
  2026-03-12 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• STALE147d [PATCH 16/61] sched: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE226d [PATCH v5 36/36] sched: Enable context analysis for core.c and fair.c
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v19] exec: Fix dead-lock in de_thread with ptrace_attach
  2025-12-19 · Bernd Edlinger <hidden>
• STALE265d Re: [PATCH v4 06/35] cleanup: Basic compatibility with context analysis
  2025-12-16 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE289d [RFC][PATCH] exec: Move cred computation under exec_update_lock
  2025-11-20 · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
• STALE265d [PATCH v4 35/35] sched: Enable context analysis for core.c and fair.c
  2025-11-20 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE300d [PATCH v3 35/35] sched: Enable capability analysis for core.c and fair.c
  2025-09-18 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE357d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 1/4] copy_sighand: Handle architectures where sizeof(unsigned long) < sizeof(u64)
  2025-09-01 · Simon Schuster via B4 Relay <devnull+schuster.simon.siemens-energy.com@kernel.org>
• STALE357d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 2/4] copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree
  2025-09-01 · Simon Schuster via B4 Relay <devnull+schuster.simon.siemens-energy.com@kernel.org>
• STALE395d LANDED [PATCH v3 01/13] stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASE
  2025-07-17 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE427d [PATCH v2 01/14] stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASE
  2025-05-23 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE484d [PATCH 3/8] stackleak: Rename CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK to CONFIG_STACKLEAK
  2025-05-07 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE492d [PATCH RFC 1/4] stackleak: Rename CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK to CONFIG_STACKLEAK
  2025-05-02 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE589d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-10 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE608d [PATCH] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-09 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@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.

• COOLING4d [RFC PATCH 07/24] fork: expose vfork completion helper
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COOLING4d [RFC PATCH 09/24] fork: let process builders supply preallocated pids
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COOLING4d [RFC PATCH 13/24] fork: let new tasks start with task work
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>