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 intel-gfx (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COLD35d [PATCH v2 01/14] drbd: Open-code transfer log list walk
  2026-06-09 · Kaitao Cheng <hidden>
• COLD37d [PATCH 09/11] treewide: Convert custom kernel_param_ops .get callbacks to seq_buf via cocci
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COLD37d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE106d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE334d [core-for-CI] Revert "block: restore default wbt enablement"
  2025-08-18 · Chaitanya Kumar Borah <hidden>
• STALE366d LANDED [PATCH v6 3/5] fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
  2025-07-16 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE367d [PATCH v5 3/5] fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
  2025-07-10 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE375d [PATCH v4 3/5] fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
  2025-07-07 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE380d [PATCH v3 3/4] fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
  2025-06-27 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE386d [PATCH v2 3/5] fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
  2025-06-24 · 陈涛涛 Taotao Chen <hidden>
• STALE351d LANDED [PATCH 09/10] fs: convert most other generic_file_*mmap() users to .mmap_prepare()
  2025-06-16 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE469d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 8/9] mm: Remove swap_writepage() and shmem_writepage()
  2025-04-02 · "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE442d [PATCH 10/11] mm: Remove swap_writepage() and shmem_writepage()
  2025-03-07 · "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE766d LANDED [PATCH] tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str()
  2024-05-16 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE856d [FYI][PATCH] tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str()
  2024-02-23 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE1249d [RFC DO NOT MERGE] treewide: use __xchg in most obvious places
  2023-01-10 · Andrzej Hajda <andrzej.hajda@intel.com>
• STALE1303d [PATCH] treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*()
  2022-12-20 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE1337d Re: [PATCH v4a 00/38] timers: Use timer_shutdown*() before freeing timers
  2022-11-05 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE1594d [PATCH 6/6] treewide: remove check of list iterator against head past the loop body
  2022-02-28 · Jakob Koschel <hidden>
• STALE1611d [PATCH V3 1/13] block: xen: use time_is_before_eq_jiffies() instead of open coding it
  2022-02-15 · Qing Wang <hidden>
• STALE1617d [PATCH V2 1/13] block: xen: use time_is_before_eq_jiffies() instead of jiffies judgment
  2022-02-11 · Qing Wang <hidden>
• STALE1688d LANDED: 6 (4M) [PATCH bpf v2] treewide: add missing includes masked by cgroup -> bpf dependency
  2021-12-02 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• STALE1684d [PATCH bpf] treewide: add missing includes masked by cgroup -> bpf dependency
  2021-11-20 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• STALE2062d [PATCH 9/9] blktrace: make relay callbacks const
  2020-11-23 · Jani Nikula <hidden>
• STALE2063d [PATCH 6/6] blktrace: make relay callbacks const
  2020-11-18 · Jani Nikula <hidden>
• STALE2076d [PATCH RFC PKS/PMEM 07/58] drivers/drbd: Utilize new kmap_thread()
  2020-10-09 · <hidden>
• STALE2098d [PATCH] block: convert tasklets to use new tasklet_setup() API
  2020-08-17 · Allen Pais <hidden>
• STALE3097d [PATCH v6 80/99] blk-ioc: Convert to XArray
  2018-01-17 · Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE3097d [PATCH v6 99/99] null_blk: Convert to XArray
  2018-01-17 · Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE3097d [PATCH v6 79/99] blk-cgroup: Convert to XArray
  2018-01-17 · Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>

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.

• STALE106d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>