printk · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• R Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• R John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
• R Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/printk-basics.rst
• F include/linux/printk.h
• F kernel/printk/

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
  11 attestations (10 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-17
• Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-17
• Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
  3 attestations (3 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-17
• John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-17
• Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
  3 attestations (3 Reported-by) · last on 2026-09-12
• <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-09-17
• Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) <rafael@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-12

Recent patches

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

• COLD16d Re: Linux 7.2.7
  2026-09-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD16d Re: Linux 6.18.53
  2026-09-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.111
  2026-09-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD16d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH 6.12 0605/1102] printk/nbcon: Change nbcon_irq_work to IRQ_WORK_LAZY
  2026-09-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH 6.18 0712/1250] printk/nbcon: Change nbcon_irq_work to IRQ_WORK_LAZY
  2026-09-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH 7.2 177/733] printk/nbcon: Change nbcon_irq_work to IRQ_WORK_LAZY
  2026-09-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 7.2 028/733] printk: Dont WARN on kthread_run failure.
  2026-09-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD23d Re: Linux 6.12.110
  2026-09-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH 6.12 0466/1376] panic: introduce helper functions for panic state
  2026-09-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD16d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.12 0470/1376] printk: Fix possible console use-after-free
  2026-09-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD16d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 6.12 0469/1376] printk: Introduce console_flush_one_record
  2026-09-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH 6.12 0468/1376] panic/printk: replace other_cpu_in_panic() with panic_on_other_cpu()
  2026-09-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH 6.12 0467/1376] panic/printk: replace this_cpu_in_panic() with panic_on_this_cpu()
  2026-09-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD16d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 6.12 0465/1376] printk/panic: Add option to allow non-panic CPUs to write to the ring buffer.
  2026-09-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD20d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH 6.18 1381/1518] syscore: Pass context data to callbacks
  2026-09-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD20d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.18 0294/1518] printk: Fix possible console use-after-free
  2026-09-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD20d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 6.18 0293/1518] printk: Introduce console_flush_one_record
  2026-09-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD22d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 7.2 0299/1815] printk: Fix possible console use-after-free
  2026-09-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE110d Re: Linux 6.1.176
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.210
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.259
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE110d Re: [PATCH net] netpoll: run NAPI poll in softirq context to avoid rq->lock self-deadlock
  2026-06-18 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE128d Re: Linux 6.1.175
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.209
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.258
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE122d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5.10 408/589] lib/hexdump: print_hex_dump_bytes() calls print_hex_dump_debug()
  2026-05-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE128d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5.15 550/776] lib/hexdump: print_hex_dump_bytes() calls print_hex_dump_debug()
  2026-05-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE127d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.1 665/969] lib/hexdump: print_hex_dump_bytes() calls print_hex_dump_debug()
  2026-05-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE137d Re: Linux 7.0.10
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.33
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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.

• STALE151d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 7.0.y 1/2] printk: add print_hex_dump_devel()
  2026-05-09 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE151d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.18.y 1/2] printk: add print_hex_dump_devel()
  2026-05-09 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.12.y 1/2] printk: add print_hex_dump_devel()
  2026-05-10 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE150d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.6.y 1/2] printk: add print_hex_dump_devel()
  2026-05-10 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.1.y 1/2] printk: add print_hex_dump_devel()
  2026-05-10 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE150d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 5.15.y 1/2] printk: add print_hex_dump_devel()
  2026-05-10 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE150d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 5.10.y 1/2] printk: add print_hex_dump_devel()
  2026-05-10 · Sasha Levin <sashal@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.

• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 7.0.7
  2026-05-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.88
  2026-05-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.30
  2026-05-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.140
  2026-05-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.141
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE131d Re: Linux 6.12.91
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.33
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE137d Re: Linux 7.0.10
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.258
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.209
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>