documentation process · Maintained

Maintainers

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

Paths

• F Documentation/dev-tools/
• F Documentation/maintainer/
• F Documentation/process/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH 0/4] mm: kmemleak: reduce transient false positives by confirming leaks
  2026-07-13 11:48 · 1 reply in 7d · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH v3 00/26] Introduce meminspect
  2026-07-08 05:32 · 1 reply in 7d · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-13
• Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-07

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 2/4] mm: kmemleak: report leaks only after N consecutive unreferenced scans
  2026-07-13 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH v3 01/26] kernel: Introduce meminspect
  2026-07-08 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• COOLING6d Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove the requirement for LLM attribution
  2026-07-07 · "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove the requirement for LLM attribution
  2026-07-07 · "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d [PATCH] checkpatch: warn on Rust unwrap and expect calls
  2026-07-07 · Harish-CS <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH] docs: link AI coding assistants and tool-generated content pages
  2026-07-02 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d [PATCH] Documentation: remove the requirement for LLM attribution
  2026-07-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d [PATCH RFC] coding-assistants: simplify attribution
  2026-07-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COOLING10d [PATCH 1/2] mm/kmemleak: report leaks only after N consecutive unreferenced scans
  2026-06-26 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COOLING13d [PATCH] Documentation: dev-tools: scripts/container prefers Podman
  2026-06-24 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH] docs: kgdb: Fix path of driver options
  2026-06-20 · Zenghui Yu <hidden>
• COLD20d [RFC PATCH 2/2] kasan: hw_tags: Add boot option to elide free time poisoning
  2026-06-12 · Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
• COLD32d [RFC PATCH v2 14/14] Documentation: add kcov-dataflow.rst
  2026-06-11 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• COLD31d [PATCH] Documentation: process: fix brackets
  2026-06-11 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COLD33d IN LINUX-NEXT: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 2/2] kunit: tool: Add (primitive) support for outputting JUnit XML
  2026-06-06 · David Gow <david@davidgow.net>
• COLD39d [PATCH v3 2/2] kunit: tool: Add (primitive) support for outputting JUnit XML
  2026-06-04 · David Gow <david@davidgow.net>
• COLD32d [RFC PATCH v2 6/6] kcov: add recursion guard and documentation for kcov-dataflow
  2026-06-03 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• COLD27d [PATCH net-next] docs: exclude driver and netdevsim bugs
  2026-06-03 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• COLD42d [PATCH v1] docs: kgdb: Fix stale source file paths
  2026-05-31 · Costa Shulyupin <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4 11/11] kernel/api: add syscall enter/exit tracepoints
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD45d [PATCH v4 04/11] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD45d [PATCH v4 03/11] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD45d [PATCH v4 02/11] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD45d [PATCH v4 01/11] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD26d [PATCH] Documentation: Fix syntax of kmalloc_objs example in coding style doc
  2026-05-29 · Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update ndesaulniers
  2026-05-28 · Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
• COLD42d [PATCH] docs: changes.rst: restore pahole 1.26 minimum (regressed by sort)
  2026-05-26 · Zhan Xusheng <hidden>
• COLD49d REVIEWED: 51 (50M) [PATCH v2] docs: submitting-patches: Clarify that "reviewer" is a person
  2026-05-20 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• COOLING12d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0] Documentation: security-bugs: do not systematically Cc the security team
  2026-05-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD57d [PATCH v2] docs: dt: maintainer: Add Devicetree and OF maintainer profile document
  2026-05-18 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>

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.

• STALE182d REVIEWED: 64 (63M) [PATCH] [v3] Documentation: Provide guidelines for tool-generated content
  2026-01-06 · Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> · 8 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 73 (71M) [PATCH] [v5] Documentation: Provide guidelines for tool-generated content
  2026-01-13 · Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> · 10 Reviewed-by
• STALE171d REVIEWED: 78 (75M) [PATCH] [v6] Documentation: Provide guidelines for tool-generated content
  2026-01-19 · Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> · 12 Reviewed-by
• STALE161d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] docs: maintainer-pgp-guide.rst: updated kernel.org link
  2026-02-03 · Amitabh Srivastava <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE118d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v6 5/5] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-03-17 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE81d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v7 5/5] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-04-20 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE62d REVIEWED: 6 (2M) [PATCH v8 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-04 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 3 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE63d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v9 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-08 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• COLD34d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: security-bugs: do not systematically Cc the security team
  2026-05-09 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE61d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v10 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-13 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 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.

• STALE142d [PATCH RESEND 3/3] Documentation: Coccinelle: document debug log handling
  2026-01-06 · Benjamin Philip <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] Documentation: Fix typos and grammatical errors
  2026-01-12 · Nauman Sabir <hidden>
• STALE174d [PATCH 6/9] docs: kdoc: move kernel-doc to tools/docs
  2026-01-19 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] Doc:dev-tools Added Gentoo in Operating System list under Getting Coccinelle
  2026-02-22 · Bhaskar Chowdhury <hidden>
• STALE138d [PATCH v2 1/2] workflow: process/changes.rst: sort list
  2026-02-26 · Hans Anda <hidden>
• STALE132d [PATCH v3 1/2] workflow: process/changes.rst: sort and cleanup list
  2026-03-02 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• STALE125d [PATCH v11 15/15] docs: Update KASAN and x86 memory map documentations
  2026-03-10 · Maciej Wieczor-Retman <hidden>
• STALE97d [PATCH 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE112d [PATCH v2 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE112d [PATCH v2 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>