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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM2d [PATCH v1] doc: RCU: Fix typo
  2026-08-27 09:06 · 0 replies in 7d · Costa Shulyupin <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-08-12
• David Dai <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-08-12
• Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-31
• Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-31

Recent patches

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

• WARM2d [PATCH v1] doc: RCU: Fix typo
  2026-08-27 · Costa Shulyupin <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH RFC] rcu-tasks: Disable callback contend/collapse messages by default
  2026-08-12 · "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
• WARM3d [PATCH v4 5/6] rcutorture: Exercise ->call() from NMI context
  2026-08-10 · Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH v2 07/13] rcutorture: Add a stall_only module parameter
  2026-07-31 · "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH v2 06/13] rcutorture: Add nwriters module parameter
  2026-07-31 · "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH RFC 03/16] doc: RCU: Adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family - part 2/2
  2026-07-31 · "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH RFC 04/16] doc: RCU: Fix brackets
  2026-07-31 · "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH 08/11] rcutorture: Add a stall_only module parameter
  2026-07-16 · "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH 07/11] rcutorture: Add nwriters module parameter
  2026-07-16 · "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH 07/10] doc: RCU: Fix brackets
  2026-07-16 · "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH 04/10] doc: RCU: Adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family - part 2/2
  2026-07-16 · "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
• COLD44d [PATCH RFC v2 18/24] doc: Add hazptrtorture module parameters
  2026-07-16 · "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
• COLD50d [PATCH v4 10/11] docs: cgroup-v2: document kernel-noise isolation via isolated partitions
  2026-07-10 · Jing Wu <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v19 25/40] dept: add documents for dept
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE67d [PATCH v3 12/13] docs: cgroup-v2: Document kernel-noise isolation via isolated partitions
  2026-06-18 · Jing Wu <hidden>
• STALE100d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH -next v2 10/11] rcu: Latch normal synchronize_rcu() path on flood
  2026-05-19 · "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
• STALE102d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH -next v1 11/12] rcu: Latch normal synchronize_rcu() path on flood
  2026-05-11 · "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
• STALE112d [PATCH v2 2/4] docs: fix repeated word 'that' across documentation
  2026-05-09 · Adrien Reynard <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH 2/5] docs: fix repeated word 'that' across documentation
  2026-05-08 · Adrien Reynard <hidden>
• STALE118d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v4 2/3] Documentation: RCU: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
  2026-04-29 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COLD54d [PATCH] dept: update documentation function names to match implementation
  2026-04-28 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• COLD40d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v3 2/3] Documentation: RCU: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
  2026-04-25 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v3 2/3] Documentation: RCU: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
  2026-04-25 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COLD40d [PATCH v3 2/3] Documentation: RCU: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
  2026-04-24 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• STALE126d [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation: RCU: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
  2026-04-21 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COLD51d [PATCH 23/23] cgroup/cpuset: Documentation and kselftest updates
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• COLD51d [PATCH 03/23] tick/nohz: Make nohz_full parameter optional
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE130d [PATCH] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
  2026-04-19 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• STALE136d [PATCH v2 11/12] Documentation: cgroup-v2: Document dynamic housekeeping (DHM)
  2026-04-13 · Qiliang Yuan <hidden>
• STALE164d [PATCH -next v1 10/16] rcu-tasks: Document that RCU Tasks Trace grace periods now imply RCU grace periods
  2026-03-17 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.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.

• STALE171d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] rcu: Latch normal synchronize_rcu() path on flood
  2026-03-02 · "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com> · 1 Tested-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3] rcu: Latch normal synchronize_rcu() path on flood
  2026-03-11 · "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com> · 1 Tested-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.

• STALE136d [PATCH v2 11/12] Documentation: cgroup-v2: Document dynamic housekeeping (DHM)
  2026-04-13 · Qiliang Yuan <hidden>
• STALE67d [PATCH v3 12/13] docs: cgroup-v2: Document kernel-noise isolation via isolated partitions
  2026-06-18 · Jing Wu <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v19 25/40] dept: add documents for dept
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• COLD44d [PATCH RFC v2 18/24] doc: Add hazptrtorture module parameters
  2026-07-16 · "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH 04/10] doc: RCU: Adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family - part 2/2
  2026-07-16 · "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH 07/10] doc: RCU: Fix brackets
  2026-07-16 · "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH 08/11] rcutorture: Add a stall_only module parameter
  2026-07-16 · "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>