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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH 0/3] kmemleak: fix stale documentation and raise the verbose default
  2026-09-17 13:48 · 3 replies in 7d · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v9 0/4] kallsyms: embed source file:line info in kernel stack traces
  2026-09-17 13:37 · 3 replies in 7d · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] Documentation: net: dsa: Fix bracket
  2026-09-16 12:38 · 3 replies in 7d · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 0/3] Small improvement about mmc documentation
  2026-09-17 10:04 · 2 replies in 7d · Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@rock-chips.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 0/4] KVM: TDX: Validate directly configurable CPUID bits
  2026-09-17 07:22 · 2 replies in 7d · Binbin Wu <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v10 00/38] dyndbg: Fix classmaps API for subsystems, query extensions, selftests
  2026-09-16 15:33 · 3 replies in 7d · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v15 0/4] ptp: ocp: add TAP CPLD support for ADVA TimeCard X1
  2026-09-16 15:33 · 2 replies in 7d · Sagi Maimon <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 00/10] mm/damon: improve readability, clarity and test coverage
  2026-09-17 14:22 · 1 reply in 7d · SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 0/2] sched: Enable preferred SMT siblings on NVIDIA Olympus
  2026-09-17 14:08 · 1 reply in 7d · Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v3 00/19] drm/panel: embed a drm_bridge into every drm_panel
  2026-09-16 13:46 · 2 replies in 7d · Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
  24 attestations (8 Acked-by, 5 Reported-by, 7 Reviewed-by, 4 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-17
• Shivank Garg <hidden>
  15 attestations (15 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
  14 attestations (5 Acked-by, 3 Reviewed-by, 6 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-11
• Binbin Wu <hidden>
  12 attestations (12 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
  10 attestations (5 Reviewed-by, 5 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-05
• SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
  9 attestations (1 Acked-by, 7 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-14
• Xiaoyao Li <hidden>
  9 attestations (6 Reviewed-by, 3 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Fuad Tabba <hidden>
  9 attestations (9 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
  8 attestations (6 Co-developed-by, 2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Vishal Annapurve <hidden>
  7 attestations (6 Co-developed-by, 1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-10

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 3/3] mm: kmemleak: raise min_unref_scans to 3 for verbose auto-scan
  2026-09-17 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 2/3] Documentation: kmemleak: fix stale statements about scanning
  2026-09-17 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: kmemleak: describe the metadata pool, not the early log
  2026-09-17 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v9 3/4] kallsyms: delta-compress lineinfo tables for ~2.7x size reduction
  2026-09-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v9 2/4] kallsyms: extend lineinfo to loadable modules
  2026-09-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v9 1/4] kallsyms: embed source file:line info in kernel stack traces
  2026-09-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: vexpress: point the DT binding reference at the schema
  2026-09-17 · Quchaosheng <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 2/2] hwmon: (pmbus/tda38740) Add driver for Infineon TDA38740/TDA38725
  2026-09-17 · Colin Huang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 2/3] docs: mmc: fix stale async request documentation
  2026-09-17 · Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@rock-chips.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 1/3] docs: mmc: document eMMC health status support in mmc-tools
  2026-09-17 · Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@rock-chips.com>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 4/4] KVM: TDX: Validate userspace CPUID input for KVM_TDX_INIT_VM
  2026-09-17 · Binbin Wu <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 3/4] KVM: TDX: Filter configurable CPUID bits
  2026-09-17 · Binbin Wu <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] efivarfs: avoid slow QueryVariableInfo() in statfs()
  2026-09-17 · Prashant Singh <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] docs: pcmcia: Update location of PCMCIA_DEV_ID_MATCH_* constants
  2026-09-17 · Uwe Kleine-König <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [RFC PATCH v2 10/10] Docs/mm/damon/design: clarify bp is basis point
  2026-09-17 · SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH bpf-next 1/1] bpf: btf: add btf=off boot parameter to disable and free vmlinux BTF
  2026-09-17 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v16 07/12] net: Document PCS subsystem
  2026-09-16 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 1/4] mm: hugetlb: Track used_hpages when getting/putting pages from subpool
  2026-09-16 · Ackerley Tng via B4 Relay <devnull+ackerleytng.google.com@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 1/7] x86/fpu: Document signal frame layout and portability
  2026-09-16 · Andrei Vagin <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v12 25/25] x86,fs/resctrl: Document telemetry mount timing caveat
  2026-09-16 · Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2] docs: kdoc: fix struct_group_tagged() parsing regression
  2026-09-16 · Omokefe Emmanuel Onanaroghene <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2] docs: kdoc: fix struct_group_tagged() parsing regression
  2026-09-16 · Omokefe Emmanuel Onanaroghene <hidden>
• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH] panic, printk, sys_info: Introduce crash_kexec_in_memory_sys_info
  2026-09-16 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] docs: Makefile: Add a testdocs target for the documentation unit tests
  2026-09-16 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 26/27] Documentation: vfio-pci: Document CXL Type-2 device passthrough
  2026-09-16 · <hidden>
• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH v11 3/4] mm: swap: add a debugfs interface for memcg tier selection
  2026-09-16 · Youngjun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com>
• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH v4 1/8] Documentation: fuse: add document on caches being used by FUSE
  2026-09-16 · Luis Henriques <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v10 34/38] docs/dyndbg: add classmap info to howto
  2026-09-16 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next v15 4/4] ptp: ocp: add TAP CPLD flashing via devlink
  2026-09-16 · Sagi Maimon <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v10 29/38] dyndbg: control-parser: treat comma as a token separator
  2026-09-16 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.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.

• STALE120d REVIEWED: 39 (39M) [PATCH v2 5/6] gpio: remove machine hogs
  2026-03-09 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE161d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v8 2/6] kho: rename fdt parameter to blob in kho_add/remove_subtree()
  2026-03-09 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE161d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v8 6/6] kho: document kexec-metadata tracking feature
  2026-03-09 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [for-next][PATCH 16/18] Documentation: tracing: Add tracing remotes
  2026-03-10 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE188d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v5 5/5] Documentation: laptops: Update documentation for uniwill laptops
  2026-03-10 · Werner Sembach <wse@tuxedocomputers.com> · 2 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3] rcu: Latch normal synchronize_rcu() path on flood
  2026-03-11 · "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE177d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v2 3/5] doc: watchdog: Clarify hardlockup detection timing
  2026-03-12 · Mayank Rungta via B4 Relay <devnull+mrungta.google.com@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE177d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 5/5] doc: watchdog: Document buddy detector
  2026-03-12 · Mayank Rungta via B4 Relay <devnull+mrungta.google.com@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 11 (10M) [PATCH v6 fwctl 5/5] fwctl/bnxt_fwctl: Add documentation entries
  2026-03-14 · Pavan Chebbi <pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com> · 2 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2] Docs/mm/damon: document exclusivity of special-purpose modules
  2026-03-15 · SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> · 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.

• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.201
  2026-02-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.164
  2026-02-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/1] alpha: enable DMA CMA support (HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS)
  2026-02-19 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• STALE206d [RFC PATCH v2 3/3] drm/syncobj/doc: Remove starter task from todo list
  2026-02-20 · Yicong Hui <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] riscv: enable HAVE_CMPXCHG_{DOUBLE,LOCAL}
  2026-02-20 · Miquel Sabaté Solà <hidden>
• STALE205d [PATCH v2 1/1] alpha: add support for SECCOMP and SECCOMP_FILTER
  2026-02-20 · Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
• STALE206d [PATCH v4 1/4] docs: iio: adxl345: fix typos and grammar
  2026-02-21 · Taha Ed-Dafili <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] landlock: Expand restrict flags example for ABI version 8
  2026-02-21 · Panagiotis "Ivory" Vasilopoulos <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] Doc:dev-tools Added Gentoo in Operating System list under Getting Coccinelle
  2026-02-22 · Bhaskar Chowdhury <hidden>
• STALE203d [PATCH v6 5/5] riscv: kexec: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
  2026-02-24 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>