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

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Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COLD16d [RFC PATCH v2 14/14] Documentation: add kcov-dataflow.rst
  2026-06-11 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• COLD16d [RFC PATCH v2 6/6] kcov: add recursion guard and documentation for kcov-dataflow
  2026-06-03 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• COLD30d [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update ndesaulniers
  2026-05-28 · Nick Desaulniers <hidden>
• COLD19d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 01/16] kbuild: Bump minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 17.0.1
  2026-05-17 · Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
• COLD31d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH tip/locking/core v3] compiler-context-analysis: Bump required Clang version to 23
  2026-05-15 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• COLD46d [PATCH 01/14] kbuild: Bump minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 17.0.1
  2026-04-29 · Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
• COLD60d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2 17/33] rust: bump `bindgen` minimum supported version to 0.71.1 (Debian Trixie)
  2026-04-05 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• COLD60d REVIEWED: 36 (36M) [PATCH v2 05/33] rust: bump Rust minimum supported version to 1.85.0 (Debian Trixie)
  2026-04-05 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE83d [PATCH 14/33] rust: bump `bindgen` minimum supported version to 0.71.1 (Debian Trixie)
  2026-04-01 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE83d [PATCH 01/33] rust: bump Rust minimum supported version to 1.85.0 (Debian Trixie)
  2026-04-01 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE79d [PATCH 3/5] compiler_attributes: Add overflow_behavior macros __ob_trap and __ob_wrap
  2026-03-31 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COLD33d [PATCH v12 01/15] kasan: sw_tags: Use arithmetic shift for shadow computation
  2026-03-30 · Maciej Wieczor-Retman <hidden>
• COLD48d [PATCH tip/locking/core] compiler-context-analysis: Bump required Clang version to 23
  2026-03-30 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE109d [PATCH v11 01/15] kasan: sw_tags: Use arithmetic shift for shadow computation
  2026-03-10 · Maciej Wieczor-Retman <hidden>
• STALE115d [PATCH v10 01/13] kasan: sw_tags: Use arithmetic shift for shadow computation
  2026-02-04 · Maciej Wieczor-Retman <hidden>
• STALE150d [PATCH v4 2/2] Documentation: dev-tools: add container.rst page
  2026-01-22 · Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io>
• STALE151d [PATCH tip/locking/core 2/6] compiler-context-analysis: Introduce scoped init guards
  2026-01-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE157d Re: [PATCH tip/locking/core] compiler-context-analysis: Support immediate acquisition after initialization
  2026-01-16 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE148d [PATCH v3 2/2] Documentation: dev-tools: add container.rst page
  2025-12-31 · Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io>
• STALE152d [PATCH v5 24/36] compiler-context-analysis: Remove __cond_lock() function-like helper
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE152d [PATCH v5 23/36] compiler-context-analysis: Remove Sparse support
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE152d [PATCH v5 20/36] locking/ww_mutex: Support Clang's context analysis
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE152d [PATCH v5 19/36] locking/local_lock: Support Clang's context analysis
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE152d [PATCH v5 17/36] locking/rwsem: Support Clang's context analysis
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE152d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v5 15/36] srcu: Support Clang's context analysis
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE152d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v5 14/36] rcu: Support Clang's context analysis
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE152d [PATCH v5 13/36] bit_spinlock: Support Clang's context analysis
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE152d [PATCH v5 11/36] locking/seqlock: Support Clang's context analysis
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE152d [PATCH v5 10/36] locking/mutex: Support Clang's context analysis
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE152d [PATCH v5 08/36] locking/rwlock, spinlock: Support Clang's context analysis
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.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.

• COLD31d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH tip/locking/core v3] compiler-context-analysis: Bump required Clang version to 23
  2026-05-15 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com> · 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.

• STALE179d [PATCH v1 2/2] Documentation: dev-tools: add container.rst page
  2025-12-10 · Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io>