tmpfs (shmem filesystem) · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
• R Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/memfd.h
• F include/linux/shmem_fs.h
• F mm/memfd.c
• F mm/shmem.c
• F mm/shmem_quota.c

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM2d [PATCH 0/3] mm: yet more cleanups for page_alloc APIs
  2026-07-16 14:30 · 1 reply in 7d · Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>

Recent patches

Most-recent 21 patches in this subsystem on netdev, ordered by date desc.

• WARM2d [PATCH 1/3] mm: move internal mempolicy APIs to new internal header
  2026-07-16 · Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
• STALE137d [PATCH 03/14] shmem: adapt to rhashtable-based simple_xattrs with lazy allocation
  2026-02-16 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE137d [PATCH 02/14] xattr: add rhashtable-based simple_xattr infrastructure
  2026-02-16 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE432d [RFC PATCH 2/7] treewide, slab: allow slab constructor to return an error
  2025-04-24 · Harry Yoo <hidden>
• STALE474d [RFC PATCH V3 42/43] rv64ilp32_abi: memfd: Use vm_flag_t
  2025-03-25 · guoren@kernel.org
• STALE1042d [PATCH 07/11] vfs: add nowait parameter for file_accessed()
  2023-08-27 · Hao Xu <hidden>
• STALE1058d [PATCH 08/29] vfs: add nowait parameter for file_accessed()
  2023-08-25 · Hao Xu <hidden>
• STALE1090d [RFC PATCH 1/4] splice: Fix corruption of spliced data after splice() returns
  2023-06-29 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1262d [PATCH v2 3/6] mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls
  2023-01-25 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1370d REVIEWED: 27 (26M) [PATCH v6 5/7] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-10 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1378d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 5/7] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-08 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1379d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 4/6] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-07 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1379d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 3/5] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1381d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 3/5] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1375d [PATCH v1 3/5] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1718d LANDED [PATCH bpf-next v3 1/4] libfs: move shmem_exchange to simple_rename_exchange
  2021-10-28 · Lorenz Bauer <hidden>
• STALE2713d [PATCH 1/3] treewide: Lift switch variables out of switches
  2019-01-23 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE2728d [PATCH net-next V4 5/5] vhost: access vq metadata through kernel virtual address
  2019-01-23 · Jason Wang <hidden>
• STALE3683d [PATCH 04/21] fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_fs_time() for inode timestamps
  2016-06-09 · Deepa Dinamani <hidden>
• STALE4112d [PATCH 05/17] fs: move struct kiocb to fs.h
  2015-04-11 · Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
• STALE4708d [PATCH 2/2] fs: use inode_set_user to set uid/gid of inode
  2013-08-23 · Rui Xiang <hidden>