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 30 patches in this subsystem on bpf (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COLD36d [PATCH 9/9] block: move the fail request code
  2026-06-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD36d [PATCH 8/9] block: add configurable error injection
  2026-06-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD36d [PATCH 7/9] block: add a str_to_blk_op helper
  2026-06-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD36d [PATCH 6/9] block: add a "tag" for block status codes
  2026-06-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD36d [PATCH 5/9] block: add a macro to initialize the status table
  2026-06-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD36d [PATCH 4/9] block: move the FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST symbol from lib/ to block/
  2026-06-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD36d [PATCH 3/9] block: refactor should_fail_bio and should_fail_request
  2026-06-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD36d [PATCH 2/9] block: consolidate the calls to should_fail_bio
  2026-06-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD36d [PATCH 1/9] block: remove ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION for should_fail_bio
  2026-06-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD46d [PATCH v2] cgroup/rstat: validate cpu before css_rstat_cpu() access
  2026-05-16 · Qing Ming <hidden>
• STALE69d [RFC v2 2/3] block: Introduce the UFQ I/O scheduler
  2026-05-03 · Kaitao cheng <hidden>
• STALE104d [RFC 1/2] block: Introduce the UFQ I/O scheduler
  2026-03-27 · Chengkaitao <hidden>
• STALE86d [PATCH 54/61] aoe: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE185d [PATCH 2/4] cgroup: Introduce cgroup_level() helper
  2025-12-17 · Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
• STALE143d Re: [PATCH V3 1/6] block: ignore discard return value
  2025-11-25 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <hidden>
• STALE143d REVIEWED: 7 (6M) [PATCH V3 1/6] block: ignore discard return value
  2025-11-24 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <hidden>
• STALE227d [PATCH V2 1/5] block: ignore discard return value
  2025-11-24 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <hidden>
• STALE248d [PATCH net-next v5 3/8] net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized
  2025-11-04 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE248d [PATCH net-next v5 2/8] net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized
  2025-11-04 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE252d [net-next PATCH v4 1/7] net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized
  2025-10-29 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE252d [net-next PATCH v4 2/7] net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized
  2025-10-29 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE260d [PATCH v3 3/9] net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unspec
  2025-10-20 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE260d [PATCH v3 4/9] net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unspec
  2025-10-20 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE263d [PATCH v2 04/10] net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unspec
  2025-10-14 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE263d [PATCH v2 03/10] net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unspec
  2025-10-14 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE303d [PATCH v2 05/13] Documentation: blk-mq: Convert block layer docs external links
  2025-09-10 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE311d [PATCH 05/14] Documentation: blk-mq: Convert block layer docs external links
  2025-08-29 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE352d [PATCH v5 3/3] treewide: Switch from tsk->comm to tsk->comm_str which is 64 bytes long
  2025-07-16 · Bhupesh <hidden>
• STALE371d [PATCH 1/4] block: Add struct kiocb pointer to block_write_begin()
  2025-06-26 · Yangtao Li <frank.li@vivo.com>
• STALE415d [OFFLIST PATCH 2/2] cgroup: use subsystem-specific rstat locks to avoid contention
  2025-04-29 · Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>

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.

• COLD36d [PATCH 1/9] block: remove ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION for should_fail_bio
  2026-06-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD36d [PATCH 2/9] block: consolidate the calls to should_fail_bio
  2026-06-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD36d [PATCH 3/9] block: refactor should_fail_bio and should_fail_request
  2026-06-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD36d [PATCH 4/9] block: move the FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST symbol from lib/ to block/
  2026-06-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD36d [PATCH 5/9] block: add a macro to initialize the status table
  2026-06-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD36d [PATCH 6/9] block: add a "tag" for block status codes
  2026-06-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD36d [PATCH 7/9] block: add a str_to_blk_op helper
  2026-06-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD36d [PATCH 9/9] block: move the fail request code
  2026-06-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>