kernfs

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Recent patches

Latest 21 postings or standalone patches, newest first. Counts below cover matching patches in netdev touching this subsystem.

• fs: don't use pseudo filesystem files as storage rfc · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RFC 05/41] kernfs: use fc_init_pseudo() 2026-11-10
  2026-11-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• xattr: rework simple xattrs and support user.* xattrs on sockets v1 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: LANDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 04/14] kernfs: adapt to rhashtable-based simple_xattrs with lazy allocation 2026-02-16
  • [PATCH 09/14] xattr: move user limits for xattrs to generic infra 2026-02-16
  2026-02-16 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• use refcount+RCU method to implement lockless slab shrink v4 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v4 41/48] fs: super: dynamically allocate the s_shrink 2023-08-07
  2023-08-07 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• use refcount+RCU method to implement lockless slab shrink v3 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 42/49] fs: super: dynamically allocate the s_shrink 2023-07-27
  2023-07-27 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• use refcount+RCU method to implement lockless slab shrink v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 40/47] fs: super: dynamically allocate the s_shrink 2023-07-24
  2023-07-24 · Qi Zheng <hidden>
• [PATCH] memcg: accounting for objects allocated for new netdevice 2022-04-27 · Vasily Averin <hidden>
• [PATCH RFC] net: memcg accounting for veth devices 2022-02-28 · Vasily Averin <hidden>
• selftests: add a new test driver for sysfs v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 2/4] kernfs: add initial failure injection support 2021-07-03
  2021-07-03 · Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• selftests: add a new test driver for sysfs v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 2/4] kernfs: add initial failure injection support 2021-07-02
  2021-07-02 · Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• loopfs v3 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: REVIEWED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 4/7] kernfs: handle multiple namespace tags 2020-04-24
  • [PATCH v3 5/7] loop: preserve sysfs backwards compatibility 2020-04-24
  2020-04-24 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• loopfs v2 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 4/7] kernfs: handle multiple namespace tags 2020-04-22
  • [PATCH v2 5/7] loop: preserve sysfs backwards compatibility 2020-04-22
  2020-04-22 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• loopfs v1 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 4/8] kernfs: handle multiple namespace tags 2020-04-08
  • [PATCH 5/8] kernfs: let objects opt-in to propagating from the initial namespace 2020-04-08
  • [PATCH 6/8] genhd: add minimal namespace infrastructure 2020-04-08
  2020-04-08 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• cgroup: Sync cgroup id and inode number v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 1/2] kernfs: Convert to u64 id 2019-11-04
  2019-11-04 · Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
• LANDED [PATCH -next] treewide: remove unused argument in lock_release() 2019-09-19 · Qian Cai <hidden>
• Make /sys/class/net per net namespace objects belong to container v3 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: PENDING · 2 of 8 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH net-next v3 1/8] kernfs: allow creating kernfs objects with arbitrary uid/gid 2018-07-20
  2018-07-20 · Tyler Hicks <hidden>
• Make /sys/class/net per net namespace objects belong to container v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH net-next v2 1/7] kernfs: allow creating kernfs objects with arbitrary uid/gid 2018-07-13
  2018-07-13 · Tyler Hicks <hidden>
• Make /sys/class/net per net namespace objects belong to container v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 1/5] kernfs: allow creating kernfs objects with arbitrary uid/gid 2016-08-16
  2016-08-16 · Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
• REVIEWED · 1 review, 1 by a maintainer [PATCH 2/8] kernfs: implement kernfs_walk_and_get() 2015-12-07 · Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
• REVIEWED · 1 review, 1 by a maintainer [PATCH 2/9] kernfs: implement kernfs_walk_and_get() 2015-11-21 · Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
• [PATCH 2/7] kernfs: implement kernfs_walk_and_get() 2015-11-19 · Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
• [PATCH 2/5] kernfs: implement kernfs_walk_and_get() 2015-11-17 · Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>