kdump · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
• M Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>
• M Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• M Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• M Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
• R Dave Young <ruirui.yang@linux.dev>

Paths

• F Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/
• F fs/proc/vmcore.c
• F include/linux/crash_core.h
• F include/linux/crash_dump.h
• F include/uapi/linux/vmcore.h
• F kernel/crash_*.c

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• COOLING6d [PATCH v4 00/12] crash: Rework and add arm64 crash hotplug support
  2026-09-07 12:54 · 4 replies in 7d · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>

Recent patches

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

• COOLING6d [PATCH v4 08/12] crash: Fix TOCTOU race in crash memory range collection
  2026-09-07 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v4 07/12] crash: Extract crash_get_memory_ranges() helper
  2026-09-07 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v4 09/12] elf: Introduce elf64_phdr_size() helper
  2026-09-07 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v4 10/12] crash: Introduce crash_extra_elfcorehdr_size() helper
  2026-09-07 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v3 11/17] crash: Introduce crash_extra_elfcorehdr_size() helper
  2026-08-26 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v3 10/17] elf: Introduce elf64_phdr_size() helper
  2026-08-26 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v3 09/17] crash: Fix TOCTOU race in crash memory range collection
  2026-08-26 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v3 08/17] crash: Extract crash_get_memory_ranges() helper
  2026-08-26 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE75d REVIEWED: 17 (15M) [PATCH v17 08/10] powerpc/kexec_file: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() helper
  2026-06-29 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE75d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v17 03/10] crash: Add crash_prepare_headers() to exclude crash kernel memory
  2026-06-29 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE88d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v16 08/10] powerpc/kexec_file: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() helper
  2026-06-08 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE88d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v16 03/10] crash: Add crash_prepare_headers() to exclude crash kernel memory
  2026-06-08 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE104d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v15 20/23] powerpc/kexec_file: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() helper
  2026-06-01 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE104d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v15 15/23] crash: Add crash_prepare_headers() to exclude crash kernel memory
  2026-06-01 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE104d [PATCH v15 10/23] crash_core: Introduce CRASH_HOTPLUG_SAFETY_PADDING for memory hotplug safety
  2026-06-01 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE109d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v14 14/17] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-05-25 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE109d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v14 09/17] crash: Add crash_prepare_headers() to exclude crash kernel memory
  2026-05-25 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE117d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v13 13/15] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-05-11 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE117d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v13 08/15] crash: Add crash_prepare_headers() to exclude crash kernel memory
  2026-05-11 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE138d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v12 13/15] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-04-02 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE138d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v12 08/15] crash: Add crash_prepare_headers() to exclude crash kernel memory
  2026-04-02 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE168d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v11 09/11] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-03-28 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE168d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v11 08/11] crash: Exclude crash kernel memory in crash core
  2026-03-28 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE171d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v10 5/8] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-03-25 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE171d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v10 4/8] crash: Exclude crash kernel memory in crash core
  2026-03-25 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v9 3/5] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-03-23 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v9 2/5] crash: Exclude crash kernel memory in crash core
  2026-03-23 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v8 3/5] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-03-02 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 12 (11M) [PATCH v8 2/5] crash: Exclude crash kernel memory in crash core
  2026-03-02 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE197d REVIEWED: 12 (11M) [PATCH v7 2/5] crash: Exclude crash kernel memory in crash core
  2026-02-26 · Jinjie Ruan <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.

• STALE199d [PATCH v6 3/5] crash: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() on powerpc
  2026-02-24 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>