kexec

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>

Paths

• F include/linux/kexec.h
• F include/uapi/linux/kexec.h
• F kernel/kexec*

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 00/17] crash: Rework and add arm64 crash hotplug support
  2026-09-18 10:04 · 2 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.

• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 03/17] kexec: Extract kexec_free_segment_cma() from kimage_free_cma()
  2026-09-18 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 02/17] kexec: Record allocated CMA pages to fix release size mismatch
  2026-09-18 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH v4 02/12] kexec: Extract kexec_free_segment_cma() from kimage_free_cma()
  2026-09-07 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH v4 01/12] kexec: Record allocated CMA pages to fix release size mismatch
  2026-09-07 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COLD18d [PATCH v3 01/17] kexec: Record allocated CMA pages to fix release size mismatch
  2026-08-26 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COLD18d [PATCH v3 02/17] kexec: Extract kexec_free_segment_cma() from kimage_free_cma()
  2026-08-26 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COLD55d [PATCH 4/8] kexec: Extract kexec_free_segment_cma() from kimage_free_cma()
  2026-07-23 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE110d [PATCH v15 06/23] kexec: Extract kexec_free_segment_cma() from kimage_free_cma()
  2026-06-01 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE596d [PATCH v3 3/7] crash: Let arch decide usable memory range in reserved area
  2025-01-31 · Sourabh Jain <hidden>
• STALE604d [PATCH v2 6/6] crash: option to let arch decide mem range is usable
  2025-01-21 · Sourabh Jain <hidden>
• STALE586d LANDED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v5 6/6] crash: Remove KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME
  2025-01-15 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• STALE614d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 6/6] crash: Remove KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME
  2025-01-11 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• STALE619d [PATCH RESEND v1 5/5] crash: option to let arch decide mem range is usable
  2025-01-08 · Sourabh Jain <hidden>
• STALE619d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 6/6] crash: Remove KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME
  2025-01-07 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• STALE622d [PATCH v2 5/5] crash: Remove KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME
  2025-01-04 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 5/5] crash: option to let arch decide mem range is usable
  2024-12-17 · Sourabh Jain <hidden>
• STALE660d [PATCH v4 1/2] kexec: Consolidate machine_kexec_mask_interrupts() implementation
  2024-11-29 · Eliav Farber <hidden>
• STALE660d [PATCH v3 1/2] kexec: Consolidate machine_kexec_mask_interrupts() implementation
  2024-11-28 · Eliav Farber <hidden>
• STALE742d [PATCH] [RFC] crash: Lock-free crash hotplug support reporting
  2024-08-23 · Sourabh Jain <hidden>
• STALE877d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v19 2/6] crash: add a new kexec flag for hotplug support
  2024-04-26 · Sourabh Jain <hidden>
• STALE776d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v18 2/6] crash: add a new kexec flag for hotplug support
  2024-03-26 · Sourabh Jain <hidden>
• STALE933d [PATCH v17 2/6] crash: add a new kexec flag for hotplug support
  2024-02-26 · Sourabh Jain <hidden>
• STALE941d [PATCH v16 2/5] crash: add a new kexec flag for hotplug support
  2024-02-17 · Sourabh Jain <hidden>
• STALE941d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v16 1/5] crash: forward memory_notify arg to arch crash hotplug handler
  2024-02-17 · Sourabh Jain <hidden>
• STALE758d [PATCH linux-next v3 04/14] crash: split crash dumping code out from kexec_core.c
  2024-01-24 · Baoquan He <hidden>
• STALE758d [PATCH linux-next v3 02/14] crash: split vmcoreinfo exporting code out from crash_core.c
  2024-01-24 · Baoquan He <hidden>
• STALE758d [PATCH linux-next v3 01/14] kexec: split crashkernel reservation code out from crash_core.c
  2024-01-24 · Baoquan He <hidden>
• STALE940d [PATCH v2 04/14] crash: split crash dumping code out from kexec_core.c
  2024-01-19 · Baoquan He <hidden>
• STALE940d [PATCH v2 02/14] crash: split vmcoreinfo exporting code out from crash_core.c
  2024-01-19 · Baoquan He <hidden>
• STALE940d [PATCH v2 01/14] kexec: split crashkernel reservation code out from crash_core.c
  2024-01-19 · Baoquan He <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.

• COLD55d [PATCH 4/8] kexec: Extract kexec_free_segment_cma() from kimage_free_cma()
  2026-07-23 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>