tracing · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• M Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• R Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/tracepoint.rst
• F Documentation/trace/*
• F fs/tracefs/
• F include/linux/trace*.h
• F include/trace/
• F kernel/trace/
• F kernel/tracepoint.c
• F scripts/tracing/
• F scripts/tracepoint-update.c
• F tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COLD50d [PATCH v2 08/17] landlock: Add restrict_self and free_domain tracepoints
  2026-04-06 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• COLD50d [PATCH v2 11/17] landlock: Add landlock_deny_access_fs and landlock_deny_access_net
  2026-04-06 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• COLD50d [PATCH v2 12/17] landlock: Add tracepoints for ptrace and scope denials
  2026-04-06 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• COLD50d [PATCH v2 07/17] landlock: Add landlock_add_rule_fs and landlock_add_rule_net tracepoints
  2026-04-06 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• COLD50d [PATCH v2 06/17] landlock: Add create_ruleset and free_ruleset tracepoints
  2026-04-06 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• COLD50d [PATCH v2 09/17] landlock: Add tracepoints for rule checking
  2026-04-06 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• COLD50d [PATCH v2 05/17] tracing: Add __print_untrusted_str()
  2026-04-06 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• STALE119d [PATCH v2 2/2] tree-wide: rename do_exit() to task_exit()
  2026-03-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE90d [PATCH 15/61] trace: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE121d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 11/12] nilfs2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE121d [PATCH v3 10/12] f2fs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE121d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v3 09/12] ext4: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE121d [PATCH v3 07/12] hugetlbfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE121d [PATCH v3 05/12] cachefiles: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE121d [PATCH v3 04/12] vfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE133d [PATCH v2 015/110] nilfs2: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE133d [PATCH v2 009/110] f2fs: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE133d [PATCH v2 007/110] ext4: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE133d [PATCH v2 006/110] trace: reorder TP_STRUCT__entry fields for better packing on 32-bit
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE133d [PATCH v2 005/110] trace: store i_ino as u64 instead of ino_t/unsigned long
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE138d [PATCH 17/61] nilfs2: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE138d [PATCH 06/61] f2fs: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE138d [PATCH 04/61] ext4: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE138d [PATCH 03/61] trace: update VFS-layer trace events for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE291d [PATCH v5 07/12] bpf: Move the signature kfuncs to helpers.c
  2025-09-21 · KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
• STALE297d LANDED [PATCH v4 07/12] bpf: Move the signature kfuncs to helpers.c
  2025-09-14 · KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
• STALE300d 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>
• STALE306d [PATCH v3 07/12] bpf: Move the signature kfuncs to helpers.c
  2025-08-13 · KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
• STALE337d [PATCH v2 07/13] bpf: Move the signature kfuncs to helpers.c
  2025-07-21 · KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
• STALE366d [PATCH 08/12] bpf: Implement signature verification for BPF programs
  2025-06-06 · KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>

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.

• STALE121d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v3 09/12] ext4: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE121d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 11/12] nilfs2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> · 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.

• STALE138d [PATCH 04/61] ext4: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE138d [PATCH 06/61] f2fs: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE133d [PATCH v2 005/110] trace: store i_ino as u64 instead of ino_t/unsigned long
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE133d [PATCH v2 006/110] trace: reorder TP_STRUCT__entry fields for better packing on 32-bit
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE133d [PATCH v2 009/110] f2fs: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE121d [PATCH v3 05/12] cachefiles: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE121d [PATCH v3 07/12] hugetlbfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE121d [PATCH v3 10/12] f2fs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• COLD50d [PATCH v2 09/17] landlock: Add tracepoints for rule checking
  2026-04-06 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• COLD50d [PATCH v2 07/17] landlock: Add landlock_add_rule_fs and landlock_add_rule_net tracepoints
  2026-04-06 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>