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Latest 30 postings or standalone patches (up to 30), newest first. Counts below cover matching patches in linuxppc-dev touching this subsystem.

• treewide: Cleanup LATCH, CLOCK_TICK_RATE and get_cycles() [ab]use v1 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 3 of 38 landed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [patch 22/38] random: Provide CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_RANDOM_ENTROPY 2026-04-10
  • [patch 38/38] treewide: Remove asm/timex.h includes from generic code 2026-04-10
  2026-04-10 · Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
• [PATCH 26/27] random: factor out a __limit_random_u32_below helper 2026-03-11 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• vDSO: header file cleanups v2 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: LANDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 14/15] random: vDSO: trim vDSO includes 2026-02-27
  • [PATCH v2 15/15] random: vDSO: remove ifdeffery 2026-02-27
  2026-02-27 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• vDSO: header file cleanups v1 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 14/15] random: vDSO: trim vDSO includes 2026-01-14
  • [PATCH 15/15] random: vDSO: remove ifdeffery 2026-01-14
  2026-01-14 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• sparc64: vdso: Switch to the generic vDSO library v5 · 4 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v5 16/34] random: vDSO: trim vDSO includes 2025-11-06
  • [PATCH v5 17/34] random: vDSO: remove ifdeffery 2025-11-06
  • [PATCH v5 18/34] random: vDSO: split out datapage update into helper functions 2025-11-06
  • [PATCH v5 19/34] random: vDSO: only access vDSO datapage after random_init() 2025-11-06
  2025-11-06 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• sparc64: vdso: Switch to the generic vDSO library v4 · 4 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v4 16/35] random: vDSO: trim vDSO includes 2025-10-14
  • [PATCH v4 17/35] random: vDSO: remove ifdeffery 2025-10-14
  • [PATCH v4 18/35] random: vDSO: split out datapage update into helper functions 2025-10-14
  • [PATCH v4 19/35] random: vDSO: only access vDSO datapage after random_init() 2025-10-14
  2025-10-14 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• sparc64: vdso: Switch to the generic vDSO library v3 · 4 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 16/36] random: vDSO: trim vDSO includes 2025-09-17
  • [PATCH v3 17/36] random: vDSO: remove ifdeffery 2025-09-17
  • [PATCH v3 18/36] random: vDSO: split out datapage update into helper functions 2025-09-17
  • [PATCH v3 19/36] random: vDSO: only access vDSO datapage after random_init() 2025-09-17
  2025-09-17 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• crypto: lib/chacha - improve type safety v1 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 1/4] crypto: lib/chacha - strongly type the ChaCha state 2025-05-05
  • [PATCH 3/4] crypto: lib/chacha - add strongly-typed state zeroization 2025-05-05
  2025-05-05 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• vDSO: Introduce generic data storage v3 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: LANDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 06/18] vdso: Add generic random data storage 2025-02-04
  2025-02-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• vDSO: Introduce generic data storage v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 06/18] vdso: Add generic random data storage 2025-01-10
  2025-01-10 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• REVIEWED · 3 reviews, 1 by a maintainer [PATCH v2] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-10 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• [PATCH] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-09 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• vDSO: Introduce generic data storage v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 15/17] vdso: Remove remnants of architecture-specific random state storage 2024-12-16
  2024-12-16 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• Fixups for random vDSO v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 4/4] random: vDSO: don't use 64 bits atomics on 32 bits architectures 2024-08-27
  2024-08-27 · Christophe Leroy <hidden>
• Wire up getrandom() vDSO implementation on powerpc v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 03/17] vdso: Add __arch_get_k_vdso_rng_data() 2024-08-22
  2024-08-22 · Christophe Leroy <hidden>
• Wire up getrandom() vDSO implementation on powerpc v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 3/9] vdso: Add __arch_get_k_vdso_rng_data() 2024-08-16
  2024-08-16 · Christophe Leroy <hidden>
• sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table argument of sysctl handlers v3 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: PENDING · 1 of 11 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers 2024-04-23
  2024-04-23 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table argument of sysctl handlers v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers 2024-03-15
  2024-03-15 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• sysctl: Remove sentinel elements from drivers v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: PENDING · 1 of 15 landed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 09/15] char-misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array 2023-10-02
  2023-10-02 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• sysctl: Remove sentinel elements from drivers v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 09/15] char-misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array 2023-09-28
  2023-09-28 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• Remove the end element in sysctl table arrays. v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 09/11] sysctl: Remove the end element in sysctl table arrays 2023-06-21
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>
• [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.2 09/30] cpumask: fix incorrect cpumask scanning result checks 2023-03-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v2] random: do not include <asm/archrandom.h> from random.h 2022-10-29 · Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• cleanup stackprotector canary generation v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v1 1/2] stackprotector: move CANARY_MASK and get_random_canary() into stackprotector.h 2022-10-23
  2022-10-23 · Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• convert tree to get_random_u32_{below,above,between}() v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v1 3/5] random: add helpers for random numbers with given floor or range 2022-10-22
  2022-10-22 · Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• treewide cleanup of random integer usage v6 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: REVIEWED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v6 7/7] prandom: remove unused functions 2022-10-10
  2022-10-10 · Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• treewide cleanup of random integer usage v5 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v5 7/7] prandom: remove unused functions 2022-10-08
  2022-10-08 · Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• treewide cleanup of random integer usage v4 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v4 6/6] prandom: remove unused functions 2022-10-07
  2022-10-07 · Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• treewide cleanup of random integer usage v3 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 5/5] prandom: remove unused functions 2022-10-06
  2022-10-06 · Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• REVIEWED · 1 review, 1 by a maintainer [PATCH v3] random: handle archrandom with multiple longs 2022-07-19 · Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>