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• M Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
• R Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 00/17] riscv: hwprobe: Expose RVA23U64 base behavior
  2026-07-01 12:55 · 7 replies in 7d · Guodong Xu <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 00/51] x86: Try to wrangle PV clocks vs. TSC
  2026-07-01 19:32 · 4 replies in 7d · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next V10 00/14] devlink and mlx5: Support cross-function rate scheduling
  2026-07-01 07:36 · 3 replies in 7d · Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 00/23] sched: Introduce cpu_preferred_mask and steal-driven vCPU backoff
  2026-07-01 14:20 · 2 replies in 7d · Shrikanth Hegde <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 0/3 v3] delaytop: add delay max, timestamp and sorting for top latency analysis
  2026-07-02 13:00 · 1 reply in 7d · <wang.yaxin@zte.com.cn>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 0/2] devlink: extend phys_port_name controller prefix to non-external ports
  2026-07-02 11:19 · 1 reply in 7d · Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v13 00/10] net: phy_port: SFP modules representation and phy_port listing
  2026-07-01 11:05 · 2 replies in 7d · Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH -next] docs: submitting-patches: Fix section structure around DCO
  2026-07-02 10:44 · 0 replies in 7d · Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 00/18] mm: Some cleanups for page allocator APIs
  2026-07-02 09:50 · 1 reply in 7d · Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH] docs: Fix typos under GPU TODO
  2026-07-01 12:43 · 1 reply in 7d · Baran Tuna <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
  8 attestations (4 Acked-by, 3 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-02
• Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
  8 attestations (6 Acked-by, 2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-29
• Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
  7 attestations (3 Co-developed-by, 4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-01
• Baoquan He <hidden>
  7 attestations (4 Acked-by, 3 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-30
• David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
  7 attestations (4 Acked-by, 3 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-30
• Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
  7 attestations (7 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-30
• Randy Dunlap <hidden>
  6 attestations (2 Acked-by, 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by, 2 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-01
• kernel test robot <hidden>
  4 attestations (4 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-01
• Charlie Jenkins <hidden>
  4 attestations (2 Reviewed-by, 2 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-01
• Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
  4 attestations (4 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-29

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH] Documentation: remove the requirement for LLM attribution
  2026-07-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] swiotlb: introduce Kconfig option for compile-time default pool size
  2026-07-02 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 3/3] delaytop: sort by max delay to highlight top latency processes
  2026-07-02 · <wang.yaxin@zte.com.cn>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next 1/2] devlink: print controller prefix for non-zero controller
  2026-07-02 · Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH -next] docs: submitting-patches: Fix section structure around DCO
  2026-07-02 · Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v4 14/18] mm: Move __alloc_pages() to mm/page_alloc.h
  2026-07-02 · Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v13 07/15] atomic: Add atomic_cond_read_*_timeout()
  2026-07-02 · Ankur Arora <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v9 12/12] Documentation/filesystems/resctrl: Document telemetry mount timing caveat
  2026-07-01 · Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 4/5] irqchip/gic-v3: Add Renesas R-Car Gen4 erratum workaround
  2026-07-01 · Marek Vasut <marek.vasut+renesas@mailbox.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 2/4] sunrpc: hardcode pool_mode to pernode, remove other modes
  2026-07-01 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 20/51] KVM: x86: Officially define CPUID 0x40000010 as PV Timing Info (TSC and Bus)
  2026-07-01 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 11/51] x86/tsc: Add dedicated hypervisor hooks for getting known TSC/CPU frequencies
  2026-07-01 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 10/51] x86/tdx: Force TSC frequency with CPUID-based info provided by the TDX-Module
  2026-07-01 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 08/51] x86/sev: Shove SNP's secure/trusted TSC frequency directly into "calibration"
  2026-07-01 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v1 1/2] 1/2] ACPI: bus: Eliminate struct acpi_driver
  2026-07-01 · "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [RFC] entry: Untangle the return value of syscall_enter_from_user_mode from syscall NR
  2026-07-01 · Michal Suchánek <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] net/9p: add vsock transport
  2026-07-01 · <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC] coding-assistants: simplify attribution
  2026-07-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 11/23] virt/steal_monitor: Add documentation
  2026-07-01 · Shrikanth Hegde <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 01/23] sched/docs: Document cpu_preferred_mask and Preferred CPU concept
  2026-07-01 · Shrikanth Hegde <hidden>
• WARM1d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 3/5] driver core: async device shutdown infrastructure
  2026-07-01 · David Jeffery <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 3/3] tee: add MbedTEE driver
  2026-07-01 · Xing Loong <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 17/17] riscv: hwprobe: Introduce rva23u64 base behavior
  2026-07-01 · Guodong Xu <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v5 10/17] riscv: Add Zic64b to cpufeature and hwprobe
  2026-07-01 · Guodong Xu <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v5 07/17] riscv: Add B to hwcap and hwprobe
  2026-07-01 · Guodong Xu <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 06/17] riscv: Add Ziccamoa, Ziccif, Ziccrse, and Za64rs to cpufeature and hwprobe
  2026-07-01 · Guodong Xu <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 6 (3M) [PATCH v5 05/17] riscv: Add Zicclsm to cpufeature and hwprobe
  2026-07-01 · Guodong Xu <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 03/17] riscv: hwprobe.rst: Document EXT_ZICFISS and EXT_ZICFILP
  2026-07-01 · Guodong Xu <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 02/17] riscv: hwprobe.rst: Make indentation consistent
  2026-07-01 · Guodong Xu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] docs: Fix typos under GPU TODO
  2026-07-01 · Baran Tuna <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.

• STALE192d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v7 03/31] docs/dyndbg: update examples \012 to \n
  2025-12-22 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE192d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v7 04/31] docs/dyndbg: explain flags parse 1st
  2025-12-22 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE192d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v7 27/31] dyndbg: split multi-query strings with %
  2025-12-22 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE184d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 21/33] drm/vkms: Introduce configfs for plane zpos property
  2025-12-22 · Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE184d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 26/33] drm/vkms: Introduce configfs for connector supported colorspace
  2025-12-22 · Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE171d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 07/11] fs: add a ->sync_lazytime method
  2025-12-23 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE181d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v6 1/2] platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Add support to detect hardware damage detection capability.
  2025-12-24 · Nitin Joshi <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE181d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v6 2/2] platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Add sysfs to display details of damaged device.
  2025-12-24 · Nitin Joshi <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE126d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 1/9] dmaengine: Add API to combine configuration and preparation (sg and single)
  2026-01-05 · Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE176d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 07/11] fs: add a ->sync_lazytime method
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2 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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] rseq: Correct typo in the documentation.
  2025-12-04 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE208d [PATCH v4 2/3] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2025-12-04 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE205d [PATCH 3/3] Documentation: cgroup-v2: Document misc.mask interface
  2025-12-05 · Andrei Vagin <hidden>
• STALE197d [PATCH v3 6/9] docs: iio: ad4062: Add IIO Events support
  2025-12-05 · Jorge Marques <jorge.marques@analog.com>
• STALE197d [PATCH v3 4/9] docs: iio: ad4062: Add IIO Trigger support
  2025-12-05 · Jorge Marques <jorge.marques@analog.com>
• STALE202d [PATCH 02/11] mm: Rename the 'compound_head' field in the 'struct page' to 'compound_info'
  2025-12-05 · Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
• STALE202d [PATCH 11/11] hugetlb: Update vmemmap_dedup.rst
  2025-12-05 · Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
• STALE181d [RFC PATCH 38/38] arm_mpam: Quirk CMN-650's CSU NRDY behaviour
  2025-12-05 · James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
• STALE203d [RFC LPC2025 PATCH 3/4] mm/vmscan/page_alloc: Deprecate min_{slab, unmapped}_ratio
  2025-12-05 · Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
• STALE203d [RFC LPC2025 PATCH 4/4] mm/vmscan: Deprecate zone_reclaim_mode
  2025-12-05 · Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>