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Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
  4 attestations (2 Acked-by, 2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-13
• Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
  4 attestations (2 Co-developed-by, 2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-13
• Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
  2 attestations (2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-13

Recent patches

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

• COOLING11d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v9 5/9] livepatch: Implement provides and obsoletes for scoped atomic replace
  2026-09-13 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v8 5/9] livepatch: Implement provides and obsoletes for scoped atomic replace
  2026-09-09 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH] Documentation: livepatch: Point klp_callbacks kernel-doc at livepatch_external.h
  2026-09-05 · Karl Mehltretter <hidden>
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v7 for-next 3/8] livepatch: Implement replace set for scoped atomic replace
  2026-08-25 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD30d [PATCH v6 3/8] livepatch: Implement replace set for scoped atomic replace
  2026-08-24 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD45d [PATCH v5 4/9] livepatch: Implement replace set for scoped atomic replace
  2026-08-09 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD30d [RFC PATCH bpf-next v3 1/2] ftrace: deprecate disabling via ftrace_enabled sysctl
  2026-08-06 · Andrey Grodzovsky <hidden>
• COLD50d [RFC PATCH v4 3/4] livepatch: Implement replace set for scoped atomic replace
  2026-08-04 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD49d [RFC PATCH bpf-next v2 1/2] ftrace: deprecate disabling via ftrace_enabled sysctl
  2026-07-31 · Andrey Grodzovsky <hidden>
• COLD55d [RFC PATCH bpf-next 1/2] ftrace: deprecate disabling via ftrace_enabled sysctl
  2026-07-30 · Andrey Grodzovsky <hidden>
• STALE92d [PATCH v3 3/7] livepatch: Support scoped atomic replace using replace_set
  2026-06-07 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• STALE118d [PATCH v2 2/4] livepatch: Support scoped atomic replace using replace_set
  2026-05-29 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• STALE111d [PATCH v3] killswitch: add per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive
  2026-05-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE120d [RFC PATCH 1/6] livepatch: Support scoped atomic replace using replace set
  2026-05-13 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• STALE569d LANDED [PATCH v2] docs: livepatch: move text out of code block
  2025-02-27 · Vincenzo MEZZELA <hidden>
• STALE574d [PATCH] docs: livepatch: move text out of code block
  2025-02-27 · Vincenzo MEZZELA <hidden>
• STALE556d [PATCH v1 18/19] Documentation/livepatch: Update documentation for state, callbacks, and shadow variables
  2025-01-15 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• STALE743d LANDED [PATCH] Documentation: livepatch: Correct release locks antonym
  2024-09-03 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE351d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v3 5/6] documentation: Update on livepatch elf format
  2024-08-27 · Lukas Hruska <hidden>
• STALE840d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v2 5/6] documentation: Update on livepatch elf format
  2024-05-16 · Lukas Hruska <hidden>
• STALE976d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v6 1/3] kselftests: lib.mk: Add TEST_GEN_MODS_DIR variable
  2024-01-12 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE987d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v5 1/3] kselftests: lib.mk: Add TEST_GEN_MODS_DIR variable
  2024-01-10 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE988d [PATCH] Documentation/livepatch: Update terminology in livepatch
  2023-12-23 · attreyee-muk <hidden>
• STALE988d [PATCH RESEND v4 1/3] kselftests: lib.mk: Add TEST_GEN_MODS_DIR variable
  2023-12-20 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE1029d [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: livepatch: Correct opposite of releasing locks
  2023-11-29 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE1029d [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: livepatch: Correct "step on each other's toes" idiom
  2023-11-29 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE1030d [PATCH] Took care of some grammatical mistakes
  2023-11-27 · attreyee-muk <hidden>
• STALE769d [POC 6/7] livepatch: Remove the obsolete per-object callbacks
  2023-11-10 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• STALE896d [PATCH v1 5/5] documentation: Update on livepatch elf format
  2023-11-06 · Lukas Hruska <hidden>
• STALE1009d [PATCH v3 1/3] kselftests: lib.mk: Add TEST_GEN_MODS_DIR variable
  2023-10-31 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>