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• M Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
• R 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 21 patches in this subsystem on linux-um, ordered by date desc.

• STALE86d [PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE86d [PATCH 02/53] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE200d 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>
• STALE223d [PATCH v2] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-11-07 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE115d [PATCH 08/11] VFS: allow d_splice_alias() and d_add() to work on hashed dentries.
  2025-08-12 · NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
• STALE323d LANDED [PATCH 07/10] mm/filemap: introduce generic_file_*_mmap_prepare() helpers
  2025-06-16 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE473d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 1/6] Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *
  2025-02-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE480d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 1/6] Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *
  2025-02-20 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE2074d [PATCH v2 02/16] mm: Inline wait_on_page_read into its one caller
  2020-10-09 · "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE2074d [PATCH v2 01/16] mm: Add AOP_UPDATED_PAGE return value
  2020-10-09 · "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE2096d [PATCH 01/13] mm: Add AOP_UPDATED_PAGE return value
  2020-09-17 · "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE4572d Re: why does index in truncate_inode_pages_range() grows so much ?
  2013-12-07 · Toralf Förster <hidden>
• STALE4572d Re: why does index in truncate_inode_pages_range() grows so much ?
  2013-12-03 · Toralf Förster <hidden>
• STALE4593d Re: [uml-devel] fuzz tested 32 bit user mode linux image hangs in radix_tree_next_chunk()
  2013-11-17 · Toralf Förster <hidden>
• STALE4633d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] writeback: fix negative bdi max pause
  2013-10-12 · Fengguang Wu <hidden>
• STALE4633d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] writeback: fix negative bdi max pause
  2013-10-12 · Fengguang Wu <hidden>
• STALE4633d Re: [uml-devel] BUG: soft lockup for a user mode linux image
  2013-10-11 · Fengguang Wu <hidden>
• STALE4633d Re: [uml-devel] BUG: soft lockup for a user mode linux image
  2013-10-09 · Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
• STALE4633d Re: [uml-devel] BUG: soft lockup for a user mode linux image
  2013-10-08 · Toralf Förster <hidden>
• STALE4633d Re: [uml-devel] BUG: soft lockup for a user mode linux image
  2013-10-03 · Toralf Förster <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.

• STALE86d [PATCH 02/53] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE86d [PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>