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• M Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
• R Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
• R Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM2d [PATCH net-next v2 0/6] vsock: assign the guest vsock device to a network namespace
  2026-09-22 01:18 · 1 reply in 7d · Bobby Eshleman <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Jocelyn Falempe <jfalempe@redhat.com>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-11
• Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
  2 attestations (2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-22
• Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
  2 attestations (2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-09
• K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
  2 attestations (2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-09

Recent patches

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

• WARM2d [PATCH net-next v2 3/6] vsock: add a netlink command to assign the g2h device to a netns
  2026-09-22 · Bobby Eshleman <hidden>
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v5 13/14] drm/panic: Move panic display code into helper library
  2026-09-11 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v5 12/14] drm/panic: Internalize panic locking in DRM core and helpers
  2026-09-11 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v13 10/13] virt: Introduce steal governor driver
  2026-09-09 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v13 03/13] sched/docs: Document cpu_preferred_mask and Preferred CPU concept
  2026-09-09 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COLD17d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v4 13/14] drm/panic: Move panic display code into helper library
  2026-09-09 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD17d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v4 12/14] drm/panic: Internalize panic locking in DRM core and helpers
  2026-09-09 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v1 2/4] x86/vmware: Add the vmware_record_panic_msg sysctl
  2026-09-08 · Zack Rusin <zack.rusin@broadcom.com>
• COLD18d [PATCH v12 10/13] virt: Introduce steal governor driver
  2026-09-03 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COLD18d [PATCH v12 03/13] sched/docs: Document cpu_preferred_mask and Preferred CPU concept
  2026-09-03 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COOLING8d [PATCH net-next 2/6] vsock: add IOCTL_VM_SOCKETS_ASSIGN_G2H_NETNS
  2026-09-02 · Bobby Eshleman <hidden>
• COLD19d [PATCH v3 12/14] drm/panic: Internalize panic locking in DRM core and helpers
  2026-09-02 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD19d [PATCH v3 13/14] drm/panic: Move panic display code into helper library
  2026-09-02 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD24d [PATCH v11 09/12] virt: Introduce steal governor driver
  2026-08-25 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COLD24d [PATCH v11 02/12] sched/docs: Document cpu_preferred_mask and Preferred CPU concept
  2026-08-25 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COLD33d [PATCH v2 11/13] drm/panic: Internalize panic locking in DRM core and helpers
  2026-08-24 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD33d [PATCH v2 12/13] drm/panic: Move panic display code into helper library
  2026-08-24 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 2/3] blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio instead of blkg
  2026-08-23 · Yu Kuai <yukuai@kernel.org>
• COLD36d [PATCH 10/12] drm/panic: Internalize panic locking in DRM core and helpers
  2026-08-18 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD36d [PATCH 11/12] drm/panic: Move panic display code into helper library
  2026-08-18 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD37d [RFC PATCH v3 2/3] blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio instead of blkg
  2026-08-18 · Yu Kuai <yukuai@kernel.org>
• COLD30d Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH v10 00/12] sched, steal_governor: Introduce preferred CPUs and steal-driven vCPU backoff
  2026-08-13 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COLD30d [PATCH v10 09/12] virt: Introduce steal governor driver
  2026-08-12 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COLD30d [PATCH v10 02/12] sched/docs: Document cpu_preferred_mask and Preferred CPU concept
  2026-08-12 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COLD43d [RFC PATCH v2 3/4] blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio instead of blkg
  2026-08-11 · Yu Kuai <yukuai@kernel.org>
• COLD46d [RFC PATCH 12/12] virtio: guarantee a virtqueue can publish its first descriptor chain
  2026-08-09 · Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
• COLD46d [RFC PATCH 11/12] virtio: expose device memory buffer occupancy over debugfs
  2026-08-09 · Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
• COLD46d [RFC PATCH 10/12] virtio_ring: report a bounded pool's exhaustion as -ENOSPC
  2026-08-09 · Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
• COLD46d [RFC PATCH 09/12] Documentation: virtio: describe the device memory buffer
  2026-08-09 · Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
• COLD16d [PATCH v6 20/51] KVM: x86: Officially define CPUID 0x40000010 as PV Timing Info (TSC and Bus)
  2026-08-06 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.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.

• COLD16d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v6 08/51] x86/sev: Shove SNP's secure/trusted TSC frequency directly into "calibration"
  2026-08-06 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• COLD16d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 11/51] x86/tsc: Add dedicated hypervisor hooks for getting known TSC/CPU frequencies
  2026-08-06 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v5 12/14] drm/panic: Internalize panic locking in DRM core and helpers
  2026-09-11 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v5 13/14] drm/panic: Move panic display code into helper library
  2026-09-11 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> · 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.

• STALE198d [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>
• STALE190d LANDED [PATCH v3 3/8] dma-mapping: Clarify valid conditions for CPU cache line overlap
  2026-03-16 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE122d [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>
• STALE109d [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>
• COLD51d [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>
• COLD51d [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>
• COLD60d [PATCH 15/15] Documentation/gpu: remove completed drm_simple_encoder_init() todo
  2026-07-18 · Diogo Silva <hidden>
• STALE66d [RFC PATCH 2/4] vhost: host kernel support for SQ/CQ polling
  2026-07-20 · rom.wang <hidden>
• COLD47d [PATCH v9 08/11] virt: Introduce steal governor driver
  2026-07-24 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>