module support · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• M Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• M Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>
• M Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
• R Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/kmod.h
• F include/linux/module*.h
• F kernel/module/
• F lib/test_kmod.c
• F lib/tests/module/
• F rust/kernel/module*.rs
• F rust/macros/module.rs
• F scripts/module*
• F tools/testing/selftests/kmod/
• F tools/testing/selftests/module/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• COOLING4d [PATCH 0/4] ORC unwinder cleanup & UML support
  2026-09-24 12:40 · 1 reply in 7d · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

Recent patches

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

• COOLING4d [PATCH 2/4] ORC: pull out module handling from x86/loongarch
  2026-09-24 · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
• COLD18d [PATCH] module: reject out-of-range relocation target indices
  2026-09-08 · Karl Mehltretter <hidden>
• COLD19d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v4 3/3] module/kallsyms: Ignore local labels and mapping symbols during module load
  2026-08-20 · Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
• COLD19d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 1/3] module/kallsyms: Rename is_mapping_symbol() to is_ignored_kernel_symbol()
  2026-08-20 · Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
• COLD19d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v4 2/3] module/kallsyms: Refactor current symbol filtering into is_core_symbol()
  2026-08-20 · Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
• COLD39d [PATCH v3 3/3] module/kallsyms: Filter out local and mapping symbols during module load
  2026-08-12 · Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
• COLD39d [PATCH v3 2/3] module/kallsyms: Refactor current symbol filtering into is_kept_symbol()
  2026-08-12 · Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
• COLD39d [PATCH v3 1/3] module/kallsyms: Rename is_mapping_symbol() to is_local_mapping_symbol()
  2026-08-12 · Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
• COLD48d Re: [PATCH v2] module/kallsyms: Filter out local mapping symbols during module load
  2026-08-11 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COLD48d [PATCH v2] module/kallsyms: Filter out local mapping symbols during module load
  2026-08-11 · Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
• COLD50d Re: [PATCH v1] module/kallsyms: Filter out local mapping symbols during module load
  2026-08-10 · Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
• COLD50d [PATCH v1] module/kallsyms: Filter out local mapping symbols during module load
  2026-08-08 · Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
• STALE70d Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] LoongArch: mm: Expand modules virtual address space to 2GB
  2026-07-20 · Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
• STALE284d [PATCH v7 23/31] module: Add MOD_NOINSTR_TEXT mem_type
  2025-11-14 · Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
• STALE326d [PATCH v6 22/29] module: Add MOD_NOINSTR_TEXT mem_type
  2025-10-10 · Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
• STALE511d [PATCH v5 23/25] module: Add MOD_NOINSTR_TEXT mem_type
  2025-04-29 · Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
• STALE511d LANDED [PATCH v5 22/25] module: Remove outdated comment about text_size
  2025-04-29 · Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
• STALE577d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 4/8] module: prepare to handle ROX allocations for text
  2024-10-23 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE705d [PATCH v6 4/8] module: prepare to handle ROX allocations for text
  2024-10-16 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE712d Re: Bisected: [PATCH v5 8/8] x86/module: enable ROX caches for module text
  2024-10-10 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE712d [PATCH v5 4/8] module: prepare to handle ROX allocations for text
  2024-10-09 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE721d [PATCH v4 4/8] module: prepare to handle ROX allocations for text
  2024-10-07 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE739d [PATCH v3 4/8] module: prepare to handle ROX allocations for text
  2024-09-09 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE752d [PATCH v2 4/8] module: prepare to handle ROX allocations for text
  2024-08-26 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE864d REVIEWED: 15 (14M) [PATCH RESEND v8 08/16] mm/execmem, arch: convert remaining overrides of module_alloc to execmem
  2024-05-05 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE864d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH RESEND v8 06/16] mm: introduce execmem_alloc() and execmem_free()
  2024-05-05 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE864d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH RESEND v8 05/16] module: make module_memory_{alloc,free} more self-contained
  2024-05-05 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE875d REVIEWED: 15 (14M) [PATCH v8 08/17] mm/execmem, arch: convert remaining overrides of module_alloc to execmem
  2024-05-05 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE875d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v8 06/17] mm: introduce execmem_alloc() and execmem_free()
  2024-05-05 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE875d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v8 05/17] module: make module_memory_{alloc,free} more self-contained
  2024-05-05 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>

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.

• COLD19d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 1/3] module/kallsyms: Rename is_mapping_symbol() to is_ignored_kernel_symbol()
  2026-08-20 · Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD19d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v4 3/3] module/kallsyms: Ignore local labels and mapping symbols during module load
  2026-08-20 · Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn> · 2 Reviewed-by