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Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COLD36d [PATCH 3/8] x86: make TSC usage unconditional
  2026-05-22 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• COLD42d [PATCH] docs: fix typo in user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst
  2026-05-17 · Sakurai Shun <hidden>
• COLD58d [PATCH 4/5] docs: fix repeated prepositions across documentation
  2026-05-08 · Adrien Reynard <hidden>
• STALE66d [PATCH] Documentation: Fix duplicated words
  2026-05-02 · Wang Zihan <hidden>
• STALE112d Re: [PATCH v5 14/15] mm/kasan: add document into kernel-parameters.txt
  2026-03-17 · Baoquan He <hidden>
• STALE102d [PATCH 51/53] VFS: use d_alloc_parallel() in lookup_one_qstr_excl().
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE102d [PATCH 50/53] VFS: remove lookup_one() and lookup_noperm()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE102d [PATCH 49/53] VFS: remove d_rehash()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE102d [PATCH 47/53] VFS: make d_alloc() local to VFS.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE102d [PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE102d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE102d [PATCH 02/53] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE102d [PATCH 01/53] VFS: fix various typos in documentation for start_creating start_removing etc
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH v5 14/15] mm/kasan: add document into kernel-parameters.txt
  2026-02-25 · Baoquan He <hidden>
• STALE153d [PATCH v14 12/13] um: nommu: add documentation of nommu UML
  2026-02-04 · Hajime Tazaki <hidden>
• STALE119d [PATCH v3 27/29] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation
  2026-01-11 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE119d [PATCH v3 24/29] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model
  2026-01-11 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE137d [PATCH v2 26/28] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation
  2026-01-02 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE137d [PATCH v2 23/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model
  2026-01-02 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE186d [PATCH 26/28] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation
  2025-12-28 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE186d [PATCH 23/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model
  2025-12-28 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE216d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH RESEND v3] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-12-01 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-11-10 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE235d [PATCH v13 12/13] um: nommu: add documentation of nommu UML
  2025-11-08 · Hajime Tazaki <hidden>
• STALE239d [PATCH v2] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-11-07 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE247d [PATCH v12 12/13] um: nommu: add documentation of nommu UML
  2025-11-02 · Hajime Tazaki <hidden>
• STALE253d [PATCH v4 5/8] um: Add initial SMP support
  2025-10-27 · Tiwei Bie <hidden>
• STALE285d [PATCH] Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.17-rc7
  2025-09-25 · Lukas Bulwahn <hidden>
• STALE291d [PATCH RESEND v11 12/13] um: nommu: add documentation of nommu UML
  2025-09-18 · Hajime Tazaki <hidden>
• STALE292d [PATCH v11 13/14] um: nommu: add documentation of nommu UML
  2025-09-18 · Hajime Tazaki <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.

• STALE186d [PATCH 23/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model
  2025-12-28 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE186d [PATCH 26/28] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation
  2025-12-28 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE137d [PATCH v2 23/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model
  2026-01-02 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE137d [PATCH v2 26/28] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation
  2026-01-02 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE119d [PATCH v3 27/29] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation
  2026-01-11 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE153d [PATCH v14 12/13] um: nommu: add documentation of nommu UML
  2026-02-04 · Hajime Tazaki <hidden>
• STALE102d [PATCH 01/53] VFS: fix various typos in documentation for start_creating start_removing etc
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE102d [PATCH 02/53] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE102d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE102d [PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>