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• F Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
• F fs/proc/
• F include/linux/proc_fs.h
• F tools/testing/selftests/proc/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 26 patches in this subsystem on linux-unionfs, ordered by date desc.

• COLD58d Re: [PATCH v3 04/19] VFS: use wait_var_event for waiting in d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-04-29 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• COLD58d Re: [PATCH v3 05/19] VFS: introduce d_alloc_noblock()
  2026-04-28 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• COLD58d [PATCH v3 04/19] VFS: use wait_var_event for waiting in d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE62d [PATCH v2 04/19] VFS: use wait_var_event for waiting in d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE93d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH v3 12/12] treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE116d [PATCH v2 067/110] proc: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE116d [PATCH v2 014/110] proc: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE120d [PATCH 16/61] proc: update /proc/PID/maps for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE111d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 02/15] fs/proc: Don't lock root inode when creating "self" and "thread-self"
  2026-02-24 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE124d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 02/15] fs/proc: Don't lock root inode when creating "self" and "thread-self"
  2026-02-23 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE125d [PATCH 01/13] fs/proc: Don't lock root inode when creating "self" and "thread-self"
  2026-02-04 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE122d [PATCH 09/11] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2025-08-12 · NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
• STALE380d [PATCH 2/2] fs/proc: take rcu_read_lock() in proc_sys_compare()
  2025-06-11 · NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
• STALE927d LANDED [PATCH 1/2 v2] fs/proc: show correct device and inode numbers in /proc/pid/maps
  2023-12-14 · Andrei Vagin <hidden>
• STALE927d Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs/proc: show correct device and inode numbers in /proc/pid/maps
  2023-12-12 · Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
• STALE991d LANDED [PATCH v3 2/3] fs: create helper file_user_path() for user displayed mapped file path
  2023-10-09 · Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
• STALE992d [PATCH v2 2/3] fs: create helper file_user_path() for user displayed mapped file path
  2023-10-07 · Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
• STALE1001d Re: [syzbot] [integrity] [overlayfs] general protection fault in d_path
  2023-09-29 · Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE1011d REVIEWED: 12 (10M) [PATCH v7 02/13] fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  2023-08-07 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE997d [PATCH 2/3] fs: use file_fake_path() to get path of mapped files for display
  2023-06-09 · Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
• STALE1229d [PATCH v3 5/5] shmem, overlayfs, coda, tty, proc, kernfs, random: Fix splice-read
  2023-02-14 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1756d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 5/7] mm: remove VM_DENYWRITE
  2021-08-16 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE1780d [PATCH v1 5/7] mm: remove VM_DENYWRITE
  2021-08-12 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE2258d [PATCH 01/34] docs: filesystems: fix references for doc files there
  2020-04-15 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• STALE2886d [PATCH 3/4] proc: use vfs helper to get ino/dev pairs for maps file
  2018-07-31 · Mark Fasheh <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.

• STALE120d [PATCH 16/61] proc: update /proc/PID/maps for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE93d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE62d [PATCH v2 04/19] VFS: use wait_var_event for waiting in d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• COLD58d Re: [PATCH v3 05/19] VFS: introduce d_alloc_noblock()
  2026-04-28 · NeilBrown <hidden>