Labels

x86_64 interrupts, context switch, APIC, SMP, and TLB operations

Bootloader, early boot, kernel entry, and image layout

Fuzz targets, corpora, executors, triage, and KCOV workflows

Drivers, VirtIO, DMA, and IOMMU/VT-d

Pipes, futexes, message queues, and IPC namespaces

Allocators, page tables, COW, admission, cache, and OOM

Network stack, sockets, firewall, conntrack, and network namespaces

Tracing, logging, profiling, watchdog, dump, and KCOV support

Processes, syscalls, usercopy, signals, ELF, and Linux ABI

Scheduling, CPU-local state, synchronization, RCU, and lock ordering

Capabilities, LSM, seccomp, audit, hardening, crypto, and livepatch

VFS, filesystems, block I/O, and storage images

Unit, hosted, runtime, QEMU, SMP, stress, and conformance tests

Build system, scripts, hooks, automation, and repository tooling

Ring-3 programs, libc compatibility, and userspace support

Intentionally changes ABI, compatibility, or required migration

Something isn't working

Dependency or toolchain updates

Improvements or additions to documentation

This issue or pull request already exists

New feature or request

Good for newcomers

Extra attention is needed

This doesn't seem right

Needs a current, minimal, repeatable reproducer or more evidence

Needs maintainer classification, verification, and priority

Exempt from inactivity automation

Measured performance or resource-usage work

Release-blocking exploitable bug, corruption, or panic path

Release-blocking safety, concurrency, or exhaustion defect