block layer · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Paths

• F Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
• F Documentation/block/
• F block/
• F drivers/block/
• F include/linux/bio.h
• F include/linux/blk*
• F include/uapi/linux/blk*
• F include/uapi/linux/ioprio.h
• F kernel/trace/blktrace.c
• F lib/sbitmap.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 22 patches in this subsystem on asahi, ordered by date desc.

• STALE64d [PATCH v1] block: switch numa_node to int in blk_mq_hw_ctx and init_request
  2026-05-23 · Mateusz Nowicki <hidden>
• STALE115d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH 6.1.y v2 2/6] blk-mq: move the call to blk_put_queue out of blk_mq_destroy_queue
  2026-04-02 · Heyne, Maximilian <hidden>
• STALE120d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH 6.1.y 2/8] blk-mq: move the call to blk_put_queue out of blk_mq_destroy_queue
  2026-04-01 · Heyne, Maximilian <hidden>
• STALE143d IN LINUX-NEXT: 3 (0M) [PATCH] blk-mq: nvme: Fix general protection fault in nvme_setup_descriptor_pools()
  2026-03-09 · Sungwoo Kim <hidden>
• STALE171d [PATCH 4/4] blk-mq: use blk_queue_enter/exit to protect debugfs file creation
  2026-02-09 · Yu Kuai <hidden>
• STALE506d LANDED [PATCH] block: remove unused parameter
  2025-03-13 · Anuj Gupta <hidden>
• STALE507d LANDED [PATCH v2 2/2] block: change blk_mq_add_to_batch() third argument type to bool
  2025-03-11 · Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <hidden>
• STALE508d [PATCH 2/2] block: change blk_mq_add_to_batch() third argument type to blk_status_t
  2025-03-11 · Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <hidden>
• STALE881d [PATCH 01/21] block: add a queue_limits_set helper
  2024-02-28 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE881d [PATCH 02/21] block: add a queue_limits_stack_bdev helper
  2024-02-28 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1391d [RFC PATCH 13/21] z3ram: use lib tagset init helper
  2022-10-05 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
• STALE1391d [RFC PATCH 12/21] mtip32xx: use lib tagset init helper
  2022-10-05 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
• STALE1391d [RFC PATCH 11/21] floppy: use lib tagset init helper
  2022-10-05 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
• STALE1391d [RFC PATCH 10/21] amiflop: use lib tagset init helper
  2022-10-05 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
• STALE1391d [RFC PATCH 09/21] block: use lib tagset init helper
  2022-10-05 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
• STALE1391d [RFC PATCH 07/21] virtio-blk: use lib tagset init helper
  2022-10-05 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
• STALE1391d [RFC PATCH 06/21] rnbd-clt: use lib tagset init helper
  2022-10-05 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
• STALE1391d [RFC PATCH 05/21] bsg-lib: use lib tagset init helper
  2022-10-05 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
• STALE1391d [RFC PATCH 04/21] rnbd: use lib tagset init helper
  2022-10-05 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
• STALE1391d [RFC PATCH 03/21] nbd: use lib tagset init helper
  2022-10-05 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
• STALE1391d [RFC PATCH 02/21] loop: use lib tagset init helper
  2022-10-05 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
• STALE1391d [RFC PATCH 01/21] block: add and use init tagset helper
  2022-10-05 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.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.

• STALE120d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH 6.1.y 2/8] blk-mq: move the call to blk_put_queue out of blk_mq_destroy_queue
  2026-04-01 · Heyne, Maximilian <hidden> · 3 Reviewed-by
• STALE115d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH 6.1.y v2 2/6] blk-mq: move the call to blk_put_queue out of blk_mq_destroy_queue
  2026-04-02 · Heyne, Maximilian <hidden> · 3 Reviewed-by