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Maintainers

• M Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
• R Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
• R Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/
• F tools/lib/python/
• F tools/docs/
• F tools/net/ynl/pyynl/lib/doc_generator.py
• X Documentation/ABI/
• X Documentation/admin-guide/media/
• X Documentation/devicetree/
• X Documentation/driver-api/media/
• X Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/
• X Documentation/i2c/
• X Documentation/netlink/
• X Documentation/power/
• X Documentation/spi/
• X Documentation/userspace-api/media/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH 0/6] coredump: select memory types per request
  2026-08-21 11:52 · 1 reply in 7d · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v4] scsi: core: Drop Scsi_Host.default_lock
  2026-08-17 07:54 · 0 replies in 7d · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Gautam Menghani <hidden>
  8 attestations (4 Reviewed-by, 4 Tested-by) · last on 2026-08-08
• Anushree Mathur <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Tested-by) · last on 2026-08-08
• Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-17
• Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-08

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH 1/6] coredump: select memory types to include
  2026-08-21 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v4] scsi: core: Drop Scsi_Host.default_lock
  2026-08-17 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• COOLING7d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3] scsi: core: Drop Scsi_Host.default_lock
  2026-08-10 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v9 4/4] KVM: PPC: Document KVM_PPC_GET_COMPAT_CAPS ioctl
  2026-08-08 · Amit Machhiwal <hidden>
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH v8 4/4] KVM: PPC: Document KVM_PPC_GET_COMPAT_CAPS ioctl
  2026-08-07 · Amit Machhiwal <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH V5 6/6] powerpc/perf/htm: Add documentation for Hardware Trace Macro PMU
  2026-08-07 · Athira Rajeev <hidden>
• COOLING14d REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH v7 4/4] KVM: PPC: Document KVM_PPC_GET_COMPAT_CAPS ioctl
  2026-08-06 · Amit Machhiwal <hidden>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v6 4/4] KVM: PPC: Document KVM_PPC_GET_COMPAT_CAPS ioctl
  2026-08-04 · Amit Machhiwal <hidden>
• COLD23d [PATCH V4 6/6] powerpc/perf/htm: Add documentation for Hardware Trace Macro PMU
  2026-07-29 · Athira Rajeev <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH V3 6/6] powerpc/perf/htm: Add documentation for Hardware Trace Macro PMU
  2026-07-25 · Athira Rajeev <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH V2 6/6] powerpc/perf/htm: Add documentation for Hardware Trace Macro PMU
  2026-07-20 · Athira Rajeev <hidden>
• COLD22d [PATCH v18 13/13] Documentation: cxl: Document CXL protocol error handling
  2026-07-17 · Terry Bowman <hidden>
• COOLING11d IN LINUX-NEXT: 6 (6M) [PATCH v8 09/23] dma-mapping: Add internal shared allocation attribute
  2026-07-17 · "Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 2/2] Documentation/ABI: remove old fadump sysfs doc
  2026-07-13 · Sourabh Jain <hidden>
• COLD42d [PATCH v2 2/2] PCI: Add pci=nodpc kernel boot option
  2026-07-09 · Yury Murashka <hidden>
• COLD42d [PATCH v2 1/2] PCI: Add pci=noaer_recovery kernel boot option
  2026-07-09 · Yury Murashka <hidden>
• COLD29d [PATCH v7 10/10] RAS: add firmware-first CPER provider
  2026-07-08 · Ahmed Tiba <hidden>
• COLD46d [RFC] entry: Untangle the return value of syscall_enter_from_user_mode from syscall NR
  2026-07-01 · Michal Suchánek <hidden>
• COLD32d [PATCH 5/5] powerpc/perf/htm: Add documentation for Hardware Trace Macro PMU
  2026-07-01 · Athira Rajeev <hidden>
• COLD36d [PATCH v7 09/22] dma-mapping: Add internal shared allocation attribute
  2026-07-01 · "Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
• COLD17d [PATCH v5 4/4] KVM: PPC: Document KVM_PPC_GET_COMPAT_CAPS ioctl
  2026-07-01 · Amit Machhiwal <hidden>
• COLD52d REVIEWED: 32 (31M) [PATCH v17 09/10] arm64: kexec_file: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
  2026-06-29 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COLD52d REVIEWED: 12 (11M) [PATCH v17 10/10] riscv: kexec_file: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
  2026-06-29 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COLD51d [PATCH 2/2] tracing: Add CONFIG_TRACE_PRINTK_DEBUGGING to clean up kernel.h
  2026-06-21 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>
• COLD59d [PATCH v4 4/4] KVM: PPC: Document KVM_PPC_GET_COMPAT_CAPS ioctl
  2026-06-16 · Amit Machhiwal <hidden>
• STALE64d [PATCH net-next 2/2] appletalk: move the protocol out of tree
  2026-06-15 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• STALE64d [PATCH net-next 1/2] appletalk: stop storing per-interface state in struct net_device
  2026-06-15 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• STALE70d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH] v2 Documentation: arch: fix brackets
  2026-06-12 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• STALE71d [PATCH] Documentation: arch: fix brackets
  2026-06-11 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COLD35d [PATCH 08/60] Documentation: kvm: introduce "VM plane" concept
  2026-06-08 · Jörg Rödel <joro@8bytes.org>

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.

• STALE106d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] powerpc/pseries/iommu: export DMA window data to user space
  2026-02-24 · Gaurav Batra <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE74d REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH v2] powerpc/pseries/iommu: export DMA window data to user space
  2026-05-07 · Gaurav Batra <hidden> · 3 Reviewed-by
• STALE72d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 5/5] KVM: PPC: Document KVM_PPC_GET_COMPAT_CAPS ioctl
  2026-05-22 · Amit Machhiwal <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE70d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH] v2 Documentation: arch: fix brackets
  2026-06-12 · Manuel Ebner <hidden> · 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.

• STALE197d [PATCH v3 3/3] riscv: kexec: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
  2026-02-04 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE197d [PATCH v3 2/3] arm64: kexec: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
  2026-02-04 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE186d [PATCH V2 2/3] rust: Add PowerPC support
  2026-02-04 · Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <hidden>
• STALE196d [PATCH V3 2/3] rust: Add PowerPC support
  2026-02-05 · Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <hidden>
• STALE190d [PATCH v4 3/3] riscv: kexec: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
  2026-02-09 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE192d [PATCH V5 2/3] rust: Add PowerPC support
  2026-02-10 · Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <hidden>
• STALE176d [PATCH v6 5/5] riscv: kexec: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
  2026-02-24 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE148d [PATCH 07/17] raid6: improve the public interface
  2026-03-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE114d [PATCH 47/49] mm: redefine HVO as Hugepage Vmemmap Optimization
  2026-04-05 · Muchun Song <hidden>
• STALE114d [PATCH 48/49] Documentation/mm: restructure vmemmap_dedup.rst to reflect generalized HVO
  2026-04-05 · Muchun Song <hidden>