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Maintainers

• M Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
• R Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>

Paths

• F rust/kernel/pid_namespace.rs
• F kernel/pid_namespace.c
• F tools/testing/selftests/pid_namespace/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• [PATCH v2] selftests/pid_namespace: compute pid_max test limits dynamically
  2026-04-22 · Bjoern Doebel <hidden>
• [PATCH] selftests/pid_namespace: compute pid_max test limits dynamically
  2026-04-21 · Bjoern Doebel <hidden>
• [PATCH v6 4/5] selftests: Add tests for creating pidns init via setns
  2026-03-18 · Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
• [PATCH v6 3/5] pid_namespace: allow opening pid_for_children before init was created
  2026-03-18 · Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
• [PATCH v5 4/4] selftests: Add tests for creating pidns init via setns
  2026-03-13 · Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
• [PATCH v5 3/4] pid_namespace: allow opening pid_for_children before init was created
  2026-03-13 · Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
• [PATCH v2 2/2] tree-wide: rename do_exit() to task_exit()
  2026-03-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v4 3/4] pid_namespace: allow opening pid_for_children before init was created
  2026-02-25 · Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
• [PATCH v4 4/4] selftests: Add tests for creating pidns init via setns
  2026-02-25 · Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
• [PATCH v3 4/4] selftests: Add tests for creating pidns init via setns
  2026-02-24 · Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
• [PATCH v3 3/4] pid_namespace: allow opening pid_for_children before init was created
  2026-02-24 · Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
• [PATCH v16 03/10] rust: rename `AlwaysRefCounted` to `RefCounted`.
  2026-02-24 · Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v2 2/2] selftests: Add tests for creating pidns init via setns
  2026-02-23 · Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
• [PATCH v2 1/2] pid_namespace: allow opening pid_for_children before init was created
  2026-02-23 · Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
• [PATCH 2/2] selftests: Add tests for creating pidns init via setns
  2026-02-20 · Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
• [PATCH 1/2] pid_namespace: allow opening pid_for_children before init was created
  2026-02-20 · Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
• [PATCH v15 2/9] rust: rename `AlwaysRefCounted` to `RefCounted`.
  2026-02-20 · Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v4 2/3] rust: pid: add Pid abstraction and init_ns helper
  2026-02-06 · <hidden>
• [PATCH v14 2/9] rust: rename `AlwaysRefCounted` to `RefCounted`.
  2026-02-04 · Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v3 2/3] rust: pid: add Pid abstraction and init_ns helper
  2026-02-03 · <hidden>
• [PATCH v2 2/3] rust: pid: add Pid abstraction and init_pid_ns helper
  2026-01-29 · <hidden>
• [PATCH v13 2/4] rust: `AlwaysRefCounted` is renamed to `RefCounted`.
  2025-11-17 · Oliver Mangold <hidden>
• [PATCH 15/17] pid: rely on common reference count behavior
  2025-11-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v3 11/70] ns: add active reference count
  2025-10-24 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v2 10/63] ns: add active reference count
  2025-10-22 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• [PATCH RFC DRAFT 09/50] ns: add active reference count
  2025-10-21 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v3] selftests: complete kselftest include centralization
  2025-10-16 · Bala-Vignesh-Reddy <hidden>
• [PATCH v12 2/4] `AlwaysRefCounted` is renamed to `RefCounted`.
  2025-10-01 · Oliver Mangold <hidden>
• [PATCH 2/3] ns: simplify ns_common_init() further
  2025-09-22 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• [PATCH 05/14] pid: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
  2025-09-18 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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.

• [PATCH 15/17] pid: rely on common reference count behavior
  2025-11-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• [PATCH 2/2] selftests: Add tests for creating pidns init via setns
  2026-02-20 · Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
• [PATCH v2 2/2] selftests: Add tests for creating pidns init via setns
  2026-02-23 · Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
• [PATCH v3 4/4] selftests: Add tests for creating pidns init via setns
  2026-02-24 · Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
• [PATCH v4 4/4] selftests: Add tests for creating pidns init via setns
  2026-02-25 · Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
• [PATCH v6 4/5] selftests: Add tests for creating pidns init via setns
  2026-03-18 · Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>