proc filesystem · Maintained

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• F Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
• F fs/proc/
• F include/linux/proc_fs.h
• F tools/testing/selftests/proc/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• COOLING6d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v7 0/5] mm: Unconditional per-VMA locks and cleanups
  2026-08-31 20:31 · 1 reply in 7d · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
  3 attestations (3 Acked-by) · last on 2026-08-31
• Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-31

Recent patches

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

• COOLING6d IN LINUX-NEXT: 18 (18M) [PATCH v7 1/5] mm: Make per-VMA locks available universally
  2026-08-31 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• WARM3d [PATCH RFC v3 02/13] proc: add config option SYSCTL_MODULE_ALIASES
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• COLD19d [PATCH RFC v2 02/13] proc: add config option SYSCTL_MODULE_ALIASES
  2026-08-19 · Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v6 1/5] mm: Make per-VMA locks available universally
  2026-08-13 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v5 1/5] mm: Make per-VMA locks available universally
  2026-08-12 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• COLD27d [PATCH v4 1/5] mm: Make per-VMA locks available universally
  2026-08-06 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• COLD34d [PATCH v3 1/5] mm: Make per-VMA locks available universally
  2026-08-02 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE112d Re: [PATCH v4] mm: introduce a new page type for page pool in page type
  2026-05-13 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE131d [RFC PATCH v1 5/9] uaccess: Switch to copy_{to/from}_user_partial() when relevant
  2026-04-27 · "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>
• STALE174d [PATCH v3 12/12] treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE187d [PATCH v2 067/110] proc: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE187d [PATCH v2 014/110] proc: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE191d [PATCH 16/61] proc: update /proc/PID/maps for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE199d [PATCH 19/19] printk: Remove CON_ENABLED flag
  2025-12-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE381d [PATCH] selftests: centralise maybe-unused definition in kselftest.h
  2025-08-21 · Bala-Vignesh-Reddy <hidden>
• STALE483d [RFC PATCH 2/7] treewide, slab: allow slab constructor to return an error
  2025-04-24 · Harry Yoo <hidden>
• STALE525d [RFC PATCH V3 39/43] rv64ilp32_abi: sysinfo: Adapt sysinfo structure to lp64 uapi
  2025-03-25 · guoren@kernel.org
• STALE525d [RFC PATCH V3 34/43] rv64ilp32_abi: mm: Adapt vm_flags_t struct
  2025-03-25 · guoren@kernel.org
• STALE607d Re: [syzbot] [mptcp?] general protection fault in proc_scheduler
  2025-01-05 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE700d [PATCH v9 1/7] Get rid of __get_task_comm()
  2024-10-07 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• STALE724d [PATCH v8 1/8] Get rid of __get_task_comm()
  2024-08-28 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• STALE708d [PATCH v7 1/8] Get rid of __get_task_comm()
  2024-08-17 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• STALE754d [PATCH v6 1/9] Get rid of __get_task_comm()
  2024-08-12 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• STALE776d [PATCH bpf-next v4 07/20] lsm: Refactor return value of LSM hook setprocattr
  2024-07-11 · Xu Kuohai <xukuohai@huaweicloud.com>
• STALE776d [PATCH bpf-next v4 08/20] lsm: Refactor return value of LSM hook getprocattr
  2024-07-11 · Xu Kuohai <xukuohai@huaweicloud.com>
• STALE798d [PATCH v7 1/1] selftests: Centralize -D_GNU_SOURCE= to CFLAGS in lib.mk
  2024-06-25 · Edward Liaw <hidden>
• STALE803d [PATCH v6 09/13] selftests/proc: Drop redundant -D_GNU_SOURCE CFLAGS in Makefile
  2024-06-24 · Edward Liaw <hidden>
• STALE815d [PATCH 6/8] sysctl: Remove "child" sysctl code comments
  2024-06-04 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE815d [PATCH 5/8] sysctl: Remove superfluous empty allocations from sysctl internals
  2024-06-04 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• STALE815d [PATCH 7/8] sysctl: Remove ctl_table sentinel code comments
  2024-06-04 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@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.

• STALE191d [PATCH 16/61] proc: update /proc/PID/maps for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>