xen hypervisor interface · Supported

Maintainers

• M Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
• M Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
• R Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-hypervisor-xen
• F Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-hypervisor-xen
• F drivers/*/xen-*front.c
• F drivers/xen/
• F include/uapi/xen/
• F include/xen/
• F kernel/configs/xen.config

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Michael Kelley <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-01
• Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@google.com>
  2 attestations (2 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-01
• Petr Tesarik <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-01
• Jiri Pirko <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-01

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 4 (1M) [PATCH v7 15/22] dma-direct: pass attrs to dma_capable() for DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED checks
  2026-07-01 · "Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (1M) [PATCH v7 12/22] dma: swiotlb: pass mapping attributes by reference
  2026-07-01 · "Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
• COLD36d [RFC 07/12] PCI: Convert xen-pciback and pci-driver to pci_is_sriov_* helpers
  2026-06-04 · Dimitri Daskalakis <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 3 (1M) [PATCH v6 08/20] dma-direct: pass attrs to dma_capable() for DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED checks
  2026-06-04 · "Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v6 05/20] dma: swiotlb: pass mapping attributes by reference
  2026-06-04 · "Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
• COLD33d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 09/20] dma-direct: pass attrs to dma_capable() for DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED checks
  2026-05-22 · "Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
• COLD33d [PATCH v5 06/20] dma: swiotlb: pass mapping attributes by reference
  2026-05-22 · "Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
• COLD50d [PATCH v4 06/13] dma-direct: pass attrs to dma_capable() for DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED checks
  2026-05-12 · "Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
• STALE73d [RFC PATCH v1 5/9] uaccess: Switch to copy_{to/from}_user_partial() when relevant
  2026-04-27 · "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>
• STALE97d [PATCH 05/12] PCI: use generic driver_override infrastructure
  2026-03-24 · Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2] hvc/xen: Check console connection flag
  2026-03-18 · Jason Andryuk <hidden>
• STALE119d [PATCH] hvc/xen: Check console connection flag
  2026-03-12 · Jason Andryuk <hidden>
• STALE141d REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCH v5 06/21] sched: Move clock related paravirt code to kernel/sched
  2026-01-05 · Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
• STALE141d REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCH v4 06/21] sched: Move clock related paravirt code to kernel/sched
  2025-11-27 · Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
• STALE160d [PATCH v4 11/54] convert xenfs
  2025-11-18 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE235d [PATCH v3 11/50] convert xenfs
  2025-11-11 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE239d [PATCH v3 1/7] syscore: Pass context data to callbacks
  2025-10-29 · Thierry Reding <hidden>
• STALE228d [PATCH v2 11/50] convert xenfs
  2025-10-28 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE143d LANDED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v5 13/14] xen: swiotlb: Convert mapping routine to rely on physical address
  2025-10-15 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE143d LANDED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v5 05/14] xen: swiotlb: Switch to physical address mapping callbacks
  2025-10-15 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE141d REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCH v3 06/21] sched: Move clock related paravirt code to kernel/sched
  2025-10-06 · Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
• STALE278d [PATCH v1 8/9] xen: swiotlb: Convert mapping routine to rely on physical address
  2025-09-28 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE289d [PATCH 09/39] convert xenfs
  2025-09-20 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE286d [PATCH 8/9] xen: swiotlb: Convert mapping routine to rely on physical address
  2025-09-18 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE141d REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCH v2 06/21] sched: Move clock related paravirt code to kernel/sched
  2025-09-17 · Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
• STALE141d [PATCH 06/14] sched: move clock related paravirt code to kernel/sched
  2025-09-11 · Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
• STALE290d LANDED: 13 (13M) [PATCH v6 10/16] xen: swiotlb: Open code map_resource callback
  2025-09-09 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE308d REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH v5 10/16] xen: swiotlb: Open code map_resource callback
  2025-09-02 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE306d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v4 10/16] xen: swiotlb: Open code map_resource callback
  2025-08-19 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE327d [PATCH] mm/numa: Rename memory_add_physaddr_to_nid to memory_get_phys_to_nid
  2025-08-18 · <hidden>

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.

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2] hvc/xen: Check console connection flag
  2026-03-18 · Jason Andryuk <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.

• COLD50d [PATCH v4 06/13] dma-direct: pass attrs to dma_capable() for DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED checks
  2026-05-12 · "Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
• COLD33d [PATCH v5 06/20] dma: swiotlb: pass mapping attributes by reference
  2026-05-22 · "Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>