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• R Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COOLING4d Re: [PATCH v2] xfs: bound logged region access in inode buffer recovery
  2026-09-07 · Dave Chinner <dgc@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 26/27] fs: port mnt_idmap() and file_mnt_idmap() to const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 24/27] fs: port ->setattr() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 23/27] fs: port ->getattr() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 22/27] fs: port ->create() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 21/27] fs: port ->symlink() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 20/27] fs: port ->mkdir() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 19/27] fs: port ->rename() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 18/27] fs: port ->mknod() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 17/27] fs: port ->tmpfile() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 16/27] fs: port ->get_acl() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 15/27] fs: port ->set_acl() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 14/27] fs: port ->fileattr_set() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 13/27] fs: port xattr to const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 12/27] fs: port ->permission() to pass const mnt_idmap
  2026-09-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING12d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v5 22/22] Documentation: iomap: update docs to reflect iomap_iter_next model
  2026-07-29 · Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
• COLD48d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v4 21/21] Documentation: iomap: update docs to reflect iomap_iter_next model
  2026-07-27 · Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
• STALE61d [RFC PATCH] xfs: add new policy guidelines for llm-assisted patches
  2026-07-09 · cem@kernel.org
• COLD57d [PATCH v2 18/18] Documentation: iomap: update docs to reflect iomap_next model
  2026-07-01 · Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
• STALE121d [PATCH 03/12] swap,fs: move swapfile operations to struct file_operations
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE121d [PATCH 02/12] swap: move boilerplate code into the core swap code
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE146d [PATCH 2/2] xfs: expose the current zonegc required status in sysfs
  2026-04-20 · Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>
• STALE146d [PATCH 1/2] xfs: expose the number of free zones in sysfs
  2026-04-20 · Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>
• STALE161d [PATCH 8/9] xfs: expose the number of open zones in sysfs
  2026-03-31 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE169d [PATCH 3/4] xfs: expose the number of open zones in sysfs
  2026-03-30 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE173d [PATCH 51/53] VFS: use d_alloc_parallel() in lookup_one_qstr_excl().
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE173d [PATCH 50/53] VFS: remove lookup_one() and lookup_noperm()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE173d [PATCH 49/53] VFS: remove d_rehash()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE173d [PATCH 47/53] VFS: make d_alloc() local to VFS.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE173d [PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <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.

• COOLING12d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v5 22/22] Documentation: iomap: update docs to reflect iomap_iter_next model
  2026-07-29 · Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com> · 2 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.

• STALE173d [PATCH 01/53] VFS: fix various typos in documentation for start_creating start_removing etc
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE173d [PATCH 02/53] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE173d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE173d [PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE173d [PATCH 47/53] VFS: make d_alloc() local to VFS.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE173d [PATCH 49/53] VFS: remove d_rehash()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE173d [PATCH 50/53] VFS: remove lookup_one() and lookup_noperm()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE173d [PATCH 51/53] VFS: use d_alloc_parallel() in lookup_one_qstr_excl().
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>