scheduler · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
• M Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
• M Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
• M Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
• R Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
• R Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• R Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
• R Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
• R Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
• R K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/preempt.h
• F include/linux/sched.h
• F include/linux/wait.h
• F include/uapi/linux/sched.h
• F kernel/fork.c
• F kernel/sched/
• F tools/sched/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM2d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v6 00/39] mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL
  2026-10-13 15:20 · 3 replies in 7d · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH 0/4] powerpc/topology: Introduce llc_override debugfs
  2026-10-13 09:59 · 1 reply in 7d · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• WARM2d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v5 00/38] mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL
  2026-10-09 18:14 · 3 replies in 7d · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
  7 attestations (7 Acked-by) · last on 2026-10-13
• Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
  6 attestations (3 Acked-by, 3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-10-13
• Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
  4 attestations (4 Acked-by) · last on 2026-10-13
• Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
  4 attestations (4 Acked-by) · last on 2026-10-13
• Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
  4 attestations (4 Acked-by) · last on 2026-10-13

Recent patches

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

• WARM2d IN LINUX-NEXT: 32 (32M) [PATCH v6 28/39] mm: rename is_vm_hugetlb_page() to vma_is_hugetlb()
  2026-10-13 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM2d IN LINUX-NEXT: 21 (21M) [PATCH v6 27/39] mm: remove hugetlb_inline.h
  2026-10-13 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM2d IN LINUX-NEXT: 17 (17M) [PATCH v6 26/39] mm: remove VMA_IO_BIT check in vma[_flags]_is_mm_managed()
  2026-10-13 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM1d Re: [PATCH 0/4] powerpc/topology: Introduce llc_override debugfs
  2026-10-13 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• WARM2d SUPERSEDED: 32 (32M) [PATCH v5 27/38] mm: rename is_vm_hugetlb_page() to vma_is_hugetlb()
  2026-10-09 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM2d SUPERSEDED: 21 (21M) [PATCH v5 26/38] mm: remove hugetlb_inline.h
  2026-10-09 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM2d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v5 25/38] mm: remove VMA_IO_BIT check in vma[_flags]_is_mm_managed()
  2026-10-09 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d SUPERSEDED: 32 (32M) [PATCH v4 27/38] mm: rename is_vm_hugetlb_page() to vma_is_hugetlb()
  2026-10-03 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d SUPERSEDED: 21 (21M) [PATCH v4 26/38] mm: remove hugetlb_inline.h
  2026-10-03 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v4 25/38] mm: remove VMA_IO_BIT check in vma[_flags]_is_mm_managed()
  2026-10-03 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH v3 13/13] sched/fair: Switch nohz.idle_cpus to use sbm
  2026-10-01 · K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH v3 12/13] sched/fair: Allocate nohz.idle_cpus_mask during sched_init_smp()
  2026-10-01 · K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH v3 10/13] lib/sbm: Dynamically allocate sbm index when CPU is activated
  2026-10-01 · K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
• COOLING12d SUPERSEDED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v3 28/40] mm: rename is_vm_hugetlb_page() to vma_is_hugetlb()
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING12d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v3 27/40] mm: remove hugetlb_inline.h
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING12d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v3 26/40] mm: remove VMA_IO_BIT check in vma[_flags]_is_kernel_owned()
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH RFC POC 20/50] file: warn when the descriptor table is unshared with slots
  2026-09-15 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH RFC POC 01/50] file: install files on syscall exit
  2026-09-15 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 06/17] sched: assert static storage for wait queue and completion declarations
  2026-09-15 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• COLD22d SUPERSEDED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v2 28/40] mm: rename is_vm_hugetlb_page() to vma_is_hugetlb()
  2026-09-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD22d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v2 27/40] mm: remove hugetlb_inline.h
  2026-09-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD22d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v2 26/40] mm: remove VMA_IO_BIT check in vma[_flags]_is_kernel_owned()
  2026-09-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD34d SUPERSEDED [PATCH 27/39] mm: rename is_vm_hugetlb_page() to vma_is_hugetlb()
  2026-09-08 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD34d SUPERSEDED [PATCH 26/39] mm: remove hugetlb_inline.h
  2026-09-08 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD34d SUPERSEDED [PATCH 25/39] mm: remove VMA_IO_BIT check in vma[_flags]_is_kernel_owned()
  2026-09-08 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD56d IN TIP: 7 (7M) [PATCH RESEND] sched: Convert paravirt_steal to new static key APIs
  2026-08-19 · Hongyan Xia <hidden>
• STALE87d [PATCH 2/3] sched: Convert paravirt_steal to new static key APIs
  2026-07-20 · Hongyan Xia <hidden>
• STALE139d LANDED: 5 (4M) [PATCH] sched/topology: Provide arch_llc_mask for cache aware scheduling
  2026-05-29 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE139d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) Re: [BUG] sched/cache: "Make LLC id continuous" causes NULL cpumask dereference in build_sched_domains on POWER9
  2026-05-29 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE139d Re: [BUG] sched/cache: "Make LLC id continuous" causes NULL cpumask dereference in build_sched_domains on POWER9
  2026-05-28 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>

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.

• STALE139d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) Re: [BUG] sched/cache: "Make LLC id continuous" causes NULL cpumask dereference in build_sched_domains on POWER9
  2026-05-29 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-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.

• STALE139d Re: [BUG] sched/cache: "Make LLC id continuous" causes NULL cpumask dereference in build_sched_domains on POWER9
  2026-05-26 · "Chen, Yu C" <yu.c.chen@intel.com>