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Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d [PATCH v5 20/51] KVM: x86: Officially define CPUID 0x40000010 as PV Timing Info (TSC and Bus)
  2026-07-01 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v5 11/51] x86/tsc: Add dedicated hypervisor hooks for getting known TSC/CPU frequencies
  2026-07-01 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v5 10/51] x86/tdx: Force TSC frequency with CPUID-based info provided by the TDX-Module
  2026-07-01 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v5 08/51] x86/sev: Shove SNP's secure/trusted TSC frequency directly into "calibration"
  2026-07-01 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COLD30d [PATCH v4 15/47] KVM: x86: Officially define CPUID 0x40000010 as PV Timing Info (TSC and Bus)
  2026-05-29 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COLD43d [PATCH v3 34/41] KVM: x86: Officially define CPUID 0x40000010 as PV Timing Info (TSC and Bus)
  2026-05-15 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• STALE77d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v14 08/92] docs/dyndbg: explain flags parse 1st
  2026-04-23 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• STALE77d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v14 07/92] docs/dyndbg: update examples \012 to \n
  2026-04-23 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• STALE65d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v12 13/13] docs: add io_queue flag to isolcpus
  2026-04-22 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE77d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v11 13/13] docs: add io_queue flag to isolcpus
  2026-04-16 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE84d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v10 13/13] docs: add io_queue flag to isolcpus
  2026-04-01 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE98d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v9 13/13] docs: add io_queue flag to isolcpus
  2026-03-30 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE111d LANDED [PATCH v3 3/8] dma-mapping: Clarify valid conditions for CPU cache line overlap
  2026-03-16 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE111d LANDED [PATCH v3 4/8] dma-mapping: Introduce DMA require coherency attribute
  2026-03-16 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 5/5] virtio: document the map API in the driver writing guide
  2026-03-15 · Kit Dallege <hidden>
• STALE119d [PATCH v2 4/8] dma-mapping: Introduce DMA require coherency attribute
  2026-03-11 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE119d [PATCH v2 3/8] dma-mapping: Clarify valid conditions for CPU cache line overlap
  2026-03-11 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE113d [PATCH v2 2/2] tree-wide: rename do_exit() to task_exit()
  2026-03-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE121d [PATCH 2/3] dma-mapping: Clarify valid conditions for CPU cache line overlap
  2026-03-07 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE119d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v4] vsock: add G2H fallback for CIDs not owned by H2G transport
  2026-03-04 · Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
• STALE127d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3] vsock: add G2H fallback for CIDs not owned by H2G transport
  2026-03-03 · Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
• STALE128d [PATCH v2] vsock: add G2H fallback for CIDs not owned by H2G transport
  2026-03-02 · Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
• STALE133d [PATCH net v3 3/3] vsock: document write-once behavior of the child_ns_mode sysctl
  2026-02-23 · Bobby Eshleman <hidden>
• STALE140d [PATCH net v2 3/3] vsock: document write-once behavior of the child_ns_mode sysctl
  2026-02-18 · Bobby Eshleman <hidden>
• STALE170d REVIEWED: 10 (9M) [PATCH v3 22/24] mm: rename CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION to CONFIG_BALLOON_MIGRATION
  2026-01-19 · "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>
• STALE170d REVIEWED: 10 (9M) [PATCH v3 20/24] mm: rename balloon_compaction.(c|h) to balloon.(c|h)
  2026-01-19 · "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v15 13/13] Documentation: Add documentation for VDUSE Address Space IDs
  2026-01-19 · Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
• STALE169d [PATCH net-next v15 01/12] vsock: add netns to vsock core
  2026-01-16 · Bobby Eshleman <hidden>
• STALE171d [PATCH v14 13/13] Documentation: Add documentation for VDUSE Address Space IDs
  2026-01-16 · Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v13 13/13] Documentation: Add documentation for VDUSE Address Space IDs
  2026-01-16 · Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@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.

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v15 13/13] Documentation: Add documentation for VDUSE Address Space IDs
  2026-01-19 · Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE127d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3] vsock: add G2H fallback for CIDs not owned by H2G transport
  2026-03-03 · Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE119d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v4] vsock: add G2H fallback for CIDs not owned by H2G transport
  2026-03-04 · Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.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.

• STALE185d [PATCH RFC 02/13] docs: dma-api: document __dma_align_begin/end
  2025-12-30 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE185d [PATCH RFC 04/13] docs: dma-api: document DMA_ATTR_CPU_CACHE_CLEAN
  2025-12-30 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v13 13/13] Documentation: Add documentation for VDUSE Address Space IDs
  2026-01-16 · Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
• STALE119d [PATCH v2 3/8] dma-mapping: Clarify valid conditions for CPU cache line overlap
  2026-03-11 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 5/5] virtio: document the map API in the driver writing guide
  2026-03-15 · Kit Dallege <hidden>
• STALE111d LANDED [PATCH v3 3/8] dma-mapping: Clarify valid conditions for CPU cache line overlap
  2026-03-16 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• COLD43d [PATCH v3 34/41] KVM: x86: Officially define CPUID 0x40000010 as PV Timing Info (TSC and Bus)
  2026-05-15 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COLD30d [PATCH v4 15/47] KVM: x86: Officially define CPUID 0x40000010 as PV Timing Info (TSC and Bus)
  2026-05-29 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>