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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v9 00/15] userfaultfd: working set tracking for VM guest memory
  2026-07-06 08:48 · 4 replies in 7d · Kiryl Shutsemau <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 0/7] alpha: enable generic entry infrastructure
  2026-07-06 17:00 · 2 replies in 7d · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 0/2] docs/zh_CN: update translation of doc-guide/sphinx.rst
  2026-07-06 15:14 · 2 replies in 7d · Jiandong Qiu <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 0/4] kallsyms: embed source file:line info in kernel stack traces
  2026-07-06 14:29 · 2 replies in 7d · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH v1.1 00/16] mm/damon: introduce data attributes only monitoring
  2026-07-06 14:19 · 2 replies in 7d · SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 0/4] KVM: x86: Document and enforce APIC base memory hole
  2026-07-06 09:21 · 2 replies in 7d · Tim Wiederhake <hidden>
• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH 00/16] mm/damon: introduce data attributes only monitoring
  2026-07-05 20:58 · 2 replies in 7d · SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v10 0/6] iommufd: Enable noiommu mode for cdev
  2026-07-06 18:48 · 1 reply in 7d · Jacob Pan <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v7 0/6] alloc_tag: introduce IOCTL-based filtering for MAP
  2026-07-06 18:25 · 1 reply in 7d · Abhishek Bapat <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] docs: admin-guide: thunderbolt: fix sentence structure
  2026-07-06 18:25 · 0 replies in 7d · Manuel Ebner <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
  14 attestations (8 Acked-by, 6 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
  8 attestations (4 Reviewed-by, 4 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
  8 attestations (7 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Baoquan He <hidden>
  7 attestations (4 Acked-by, 3 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-05
• Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
  7 attestations (4 Acked-by, 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-02
• David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
  6 attestations (3 Acked-by, 3 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-05
• Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
  6 attestations (2 Co-developed-by, 4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-01
• Randy Dunlap <hidden>
  5 attestations (2 Acked-by, 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by, 1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-01
• SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-03

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH v10 6/6] Documentation: Update VFIO NOIOMMU mode
  2026-07-06 · Jacob Pan <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v7 1/6] alloc_tag: add ioctl to /proc/allocinfo
  2026-07-06 · Abhishek Bapat <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] docs: admin-guide: thunderbolt: fix sentence structure
  2026-07-06 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 2/4] mm/hmm: add hmm_range_fault_unlocked() for mmap lock-drop support
  2026-07-06 · Stanislav Kinsburskii <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] ipe: fix typo
  2026-07-06 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 6/7] alpha: enable lockdep hardirq state tracking
  2026-07-06 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 1/7] alpha: enable regset-based ptrace and core dumps
  2026-07-06 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v4 3/3] fs/resctrl: Factor MBA parse-time conversion to be per-arch
  2026-07-06 · Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 8/8] mm: Documentation: clarify where the mTHP stats live
  2026-07-06 · Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 18/21] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-07-06 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] docs/bpf: Document BPF_STRICT_BUILD=0 to tolerate test build failures
  2026-07-06 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3 2/2] docs/zh_CN: update sphinx.rst translation
  2026-07-06 · Jiandong Qiu <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 1/2] docs/zh_CN: add process/changes.rst translation
  2026-07-06 · Jiandong Qiu <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2] Documentation: Update after split of <linux/mod_devicetable.h>
  2026-07-06 · Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 2/3] docs: watchdog: npcm: Add reset status description
  2026-07-06 · Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 2/4] kallsyms: extend lineinfo to loadable modules
  2026-07-06 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 1/4] kallsyms: embed source file:line info in kernel stack traces
  2026-07-06 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH v1.1 15/16] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document weight sysfs file
  2026-07-06 · SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH v1.1 14/16] Docs/mm/damon/design: document attrs-only monitoring
  2026-07-06 · SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 2/2] syscall_user_dispatch: add kernel.syscall_user_dispatch sysctl
  2026-07-06 · Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 2/5] sunrpc: hardcode pool_mode to pernode, remove other modes
  2026-07-06 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v1] Documentation: PCI: Update header defining struct pci_device_id
  2026-07-06 · Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v8 6/7] KVM: arm64: PMU: Introduce FIXED_COUNTERS_ONLY
  2026-07-06 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v2] tun/tap & vhost-net: make qdisc backpressure opt-in via IFF_BACKPRESSURE
  2026-07-06 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 2/4] KVM: x86: Document APIC base address constraint for in-kernel irqchip
  2026-07-06 · Tim Wiederhake <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 1/4] KVM: x86: Document that KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP must precede vcpu creation
  2026-07-06 · Tim Wiederhake <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v9 15/15] Documentation/userfaultfd: document RWP working set tracking
  2026-07-06 · Kiryl Shutsemau <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v9 11/15] mm/pagemap: add PAGE_IS_ACCESSED for RWP tracking
  2026-07-06 · Kiryl Shutsemau <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v9 09/15] userfaultfd: add UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_RWP and UFFDIO_RWPROTECT plumbing
  2026-07-06 · Kiryl Shutsemau <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 22 (22M) [PATCH v9 05/15] mm: add VM_UFFD_RWP VMA flag
  2026-07-06 · Kiryl Shutsemau <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.

• STALE130d 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
• STALE180d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 07/11] fs: add a ->sync_lazytime method
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: clarify that dirtytime_expire_seconds=0 disables writeback
  2026-01-06 · Laveesh Bansal <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v7 1/2] platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Add support to detect hardware damage detection capability.
  2026-01-06 · Nitin Joshi <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v7 2/2] platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Add sysfs to display details of damaged device.
  2026-01-06 · Nitin Joshi <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 64 (63M) [PATCH] [v3] Documentation: Provide guidelines for tool-generated content
  2026-01-06 · Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> · 8 Reviewed-by
• STALE173d REVIEWED: 10 (8M) [PATCH net-next v22 14/14] Documentation: networking: Document the phy_port infrastructure
  2026-01-08 · Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE179d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3] tools: jobserver: Prevent deadlock caused by incorrect jobserver configuration and enhance error reporting
  2026-01-08 · Changbin Du <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4] tools: jobserver: Prevent deadlock caused by incorrect jobserver configuration and enhance error reporting
  2026-01-08 · Changbin Du <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 07/11] fs: add a ->sync_lazytime method
  2026-01-08 · 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 v1] Documentation/perf: Fix typo in dsu_pmu sysfs path
  2025-12-08 · Samuel Wu <hidden>
• STALE178d [PATCH v3 1/4] kho: Introduce KHO FDT ABI header
  2025-12-09 · Jason Miu <hidden>
• STALE178d [PATCH v3 2/4] kho: Relocate vmalloc preservation structure to KHO ABI header
  2025-12-09 · Jason Miu <hidden>
• STALE178d [PATCH v3 4/4] kho: Remove finalize state and clients
  2025-12-09 · Jason Miu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] docs/x86: Update AMD IOMMU specification location
  2025-12-09 · Richard Lyu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] docs/x86: Update AMD IOMMU specification location
  2025-12-09 · Richard Lyu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [tip: irq/urgent] irqdomain: Delete irq_domain_add_tree()
  2025-12-10 · tip-bot2 for Andy Shevchenko <hidden>
• STALE206d [tip: x86/boot] x86/boot/Documentation: Fix whitespace noise in boot.rst
  2025-12-10 · tip-bot2 for Ingo Molnar <hidden>
• STALE187d [PATCH v1 2/2] Documentation: dev-tools: add container.rst page
  2025-12-10 · Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io>
• STALE178d [PATCH v7 15/15] x86/kasan: Make software tag-based kasan available
  2025-12-10 · Maciej Wieczor-Retman <hidden>