tracing · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• M Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• R Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/tracepoint.rst
• F Documentation/trace/*
• F fs/tracefs/
• F include/linux/trace*.h
• F include/trace/
• F kernel/trace/
• F kernel/tracepoint.c
• F scripts/tracing/
• F scripts/tracepoint-update.c
• F tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-08-25
• Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-12

Recent patches

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

• COOLING8d [PATCH net] net: icmp: avoid invalid transport header access in icmp_send tracepoint
  2026-08-25 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH net v8 12/12] rxrpc: Remove OOB challenge/response code
  2026-08-24 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH net v8 11/12] rxrpc: Fix CHALLENGE packet overqueuing and simplify RESPONSE generation
  2026-08-24 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH net v8 10/12] rxrpc: Pass appdata key to rxrpc_call and thence to rxrpc_bundle
  2026-08-24 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH net v8 07/12] rxrpc: Expand abort trace enum
  2026-08-24 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH net v8 06/12] rxrpc: Fix generation of notifications after call completion
  2026-08-24 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH net v8 03/12] rxrpc: Fix packet encryption error handling
  2026-08-24 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD19d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next 02/11] mptcp: remove unused data_ack from struct mptcp_ext
  2026-08-12 · "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH net v7 11/11] rxrpc: Remove OOB challenge/response code
  2026-08-12 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD16d [PATCH net v7 10/11] rxrpc: Fix CHALLENGE packet overqueuing and simplify RESPONSE generation
  2026-08-12 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD16d [PATCH net v7 09/11] rxrpc: Pass appdata key to rxrpc_call and thence to rxrpc_bundle
  2026-08-12 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD16d [PATCH net v7 06/11] rxrpc: Expand abort trace enum
  2026-08-12 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD16d [PATCH net v7 05/11] rxrpc: Fix generation of notifications after call completion
  2026-08-12 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD16d [PATCH net v7 03/11] rxrpc: Fix packet encryption error handling
  2026-08-12 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD19d [PATCH net v6 10/10] rxrpc: Remove OOB challenge/response code
  2026-08-04 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD19d [PATCH net v6 09/10] rxrpc: Fix CHALLENGE packet overqueuing and simplify RESPONSE generation
  2026-08-04 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD19d [PATCH net v6 08/10] rxrpc: Pass appdata key to rxrpc_call and thence to rxrpc_bundle
  2026-08-04 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD19d [PATCH net v6 05/10] rxrpc: Expand abort trace enum
  2026-08-04 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD19d [PATCH net v6 04/10] rxrpc: Fix generation of notifications after call completion
  2026-08-04 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD19d [PATCH net v6 02/10] rxrpc: Fix packet encryption error handling
  2026-08-04 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD26d [PATCH net v5 10/10] rxrpc: Remove OOB challenge/response code
  2026-07-29 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD26d [PATCH net v5 09/10] rxrpc: Fix CHALLENGE packet overqueuing and simplify RESPONSE generation
  2026-07-29 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD26d [PATCH net v5 08/10] rxrpc: Pass appdata key to rxrpc_call and thence to rxrpc_bundle
  2026-07-29 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD26d [PATCH net v5 05/10] rxrpc: Expand abort trace enum
  2026-07-29 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD26d [PATCH net v5 04/10] rxrpc: Fix generation of notifications after call completion
  2026-07-29 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD26d [PATCH net v5 02/10] rxrpc: Fix packet encryption error handling
  2026-07-29 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD39d [PATCH net v4 9/9] rxrpc: Remove OOB challenge/response code
  2026-07-23 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD39d [PATCH net v4 8/9] rxrpc: Fix CHALLENGE packet overqueuing and simplify RESPONSE generation
  2026-07-23 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD39d [PATCH net v4 7/9] rxrpc: Pass appdata key to rxrpc_call and thence to rxrpc_bundle
  2026-07-23 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD39d [PATCH net v4 4/9] rxrpc: Fix generation of notifications after call completion
  2026-07-23 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.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.

• STALE189d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v5 1/5] net: sched: introduce qdisc-specific drop reason tracing
  2026-02-26 · Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE173d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v3 09/12] ext4: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE173d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 11/12] nilfs2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE150d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] mptcp: better mptcp-level RTT estimator
  2026-04-07 · "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD19d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next 02/11] mptcp: remove unused data_ack from struct mptcp_ext
  2026-08-12 · "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org> · 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.

• STALE193d [PATCH net-next 02/10] devlink: store bus_name and dev_name pointers in struct devlink
  2026-02-23 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
• STALE187d [PATCH net-next v2 02/10] devlink: store bus_name and dev_name pointers in struct devlink
  2026-02-25 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
• STALE190d [PATCH 04/61] ext4: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE190d [PATCH 06/61] f2fs: update for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE185d [PATCH v2 005/110] trace: store i_ino as u64 instead of ino_t/unsigned long
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE185d [PATCH v2 006/110] trace: reorder TP_STRUCT__entry fields for better packing on 32-bit
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE185d [PATCH v2 009/110] f2fs: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE173d [PATCH v3 05/12] cachefiles: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE173d [PATCH v3 07/12] hugetlbfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE173d [PATCH v3 10/12] f2fs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>