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-unionfs (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• STALE84d [PATCH 32/53] ext4: move dcache modifying code out of __ext4_link()
  2026-03-13 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE84d [PATCH 34/53] tracefs: stop using d_add().
  2026-03-13 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE95d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 11/12] nilfs2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE95d [PATCH v3 10/12] f2fs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE95d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v3 09/12] ext4: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE95d [PATCH v3 07/12] hugetlbfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE95d [PATCH v3 05/12] cachefiles: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE95d [PATCH v3 04/12] vfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE107d [PATCH v2 015/110] nilfs2: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE107d [PATCH v2 009/110] f2fs: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE107d [PATCH v2 007/110] ext4: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE107d [PATCH v2 006/110] trace: reorder TP_STRUCT__entry fields for better packing on 32-bit
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE107d [PATCH v2 005/110] trace: store i_ino as u64 instead of ino_t/unsigned long
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE112d [PATCH 17/61] nilfs2: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE112d [PATCH 06/61] f2fs: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE112d [PATCH 04/61] ext4: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE112d [PATCH 03/61] trace: update VFS-layer trace events for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE158d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH 06/11] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper
  2026-01-08 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE163d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH 06/11] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE158d REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH 06/11] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper
  2025-12-23 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE179d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 06/10] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper
  2025-12-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE205d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 12/16] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper
  2025-11-20 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE207d [PATCH 10/14] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper
  2025-11-14 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE228d [PATCH 12/12] trace: use override credential guard
  2025-11-03 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE228d [PATCH 11/12] trace: use prepare credential guard
  2025-11-03 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE242d [PATCH v7 05/14] Manual conversion to use ->i_state accessors of all places not covered by coccinelle
  2025-10-09 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE266d [PATCH v3 17/38] filelock: add a tracepoint to start of break_lease()
  2025-09-24 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE266d [PATCH v3 16/38] filelock: add support for ignoring deleg breaks for dir change events
  2025-09-24 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE255d [PATCH v6 3/4] Manual conversion of ->i_state uses
  2025-09-23 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE270d [PATCH v5 3/4] Manual conversion of ->i_state uses
  2025-09-19 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>

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.

• STALE179d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 06/10] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper
  2025-12-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE158d REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH 06/11] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper
  2025-12-23 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE163d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH 06/11] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 3 Reviewed-by
• STALE158d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH 06/11] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper
  2026-01-08 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 3 Reviewed-by
• STALE95d 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
• STALE95d 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.

• STALE112d [PATCH 04/61] ext4: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE112d [PATCH 06/61] f2fs: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE107d [PATCH v2 005/110] trace: store i_ino as u64 instead of ino_t/unsigned long
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE107d [PATCH v2 006/110] trace: reorder TP_STRUCT__entry fields for better packing on 32-bit
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE107d [PATCH v2 009/110] f2fs: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE95d [PATCH v3 05/12] cachefiles: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE95d [PATCH v3 07/12] hugetlbfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE95d [PATCH v3 10/12] f2fs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE84d [PATCH 34/53] tracefs: stop using d_add().
  2026-03-13 · NeilBrown <hidden>