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

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH 0/3] migration/ram: Abort on unsupported migratable RAM changes
  2026-06-11 06:37 · 1 reply in 7d · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH 1/3] system/physmem: Pass RAMBlock to RAMBlockNotifier callbacks
  2026-06-11 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 09/11] treewide: Convert custom kernel_param_ops .get callbacks to seq_buf via cocci
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE73d [PATCH v2 03/15] block: Use glib2 instead of strcasecmp/strncasecmp
  2026-03-27 · Kostiantyn Kostiuk <hidden>
• COLD56d [PATCH 54/61] aoe: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE69d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE197d [PATCH v2 09/15] blkdebug: Use error_setg_file_open() for a better error message
  2025-11-22 · Markus Armbruster <hidden>
• STALE197d [PATCH v2 15/15] block/file-win32: Improve an error message
  2025-11-22 · Markus Armbruster <hidden>
• STALE201d [PATCH 14/14] block/file-win32: Improve an error message
  2025-11-20 · Markus Armbruster <hidden>
• STALE201d [PATCH 08/14] blkdebug: Use error_setg_file_open() for a better error message
  2025-11-20 · Markus Armbruster <hidden>
• STALE159d LANDED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v9 02/11] PCI/P2PDMA: Simplify bus address mapping API
  2025-11-20 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE203d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v8 02/11] PCI/P2PDMA: Simplify bus address mapping API
  2025-11-11 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE205d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v7 02/11] PCI/P2PDMA: Simplify bus address mapping API
  2025-11-06 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE175d [PATCH v6 02/11] PCI/P2PDMA: Simplify bus address mapping API
  2025-11-02 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE223d [PATCH v5 5/9] types: move phys_vec definition to common header
  2025-10-13 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE223d [PATCH v5 2/9] PCI/P2PDMA: Simplify bus address mapping API
  2025-10-13 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE253d [PATCH v4 02/10] PCI/P2PDMA: Simplify bus address mapping API
  2025-09-28 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE253d [PATCH v4 05/10] types: move phys_vec definition to common header
  2025-09-28 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE259d [PATCH v3 05/10] types: move phys_vec definition to common header
  2025-09-25 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE259d [PATCH v3 02/10] PCI/P2PDMA: Simplify bus address mapping API
  2025-09-25 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE256d [PATCH v2 05/10] types: move phys_vec definition to common header
  2025-09-11 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE256d [PATCH v2 02/10] PCI/P2PDMA: Simplify bus address mapping API
  2025-09-11 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE269d [PATCH v1 06/10] types: move phys_vec definition to common header
  2025-08-04 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE269d [PATCH v1 03/10] PCI/P2PDMA: Simplify bus address mapping API
  2025-08-04 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE315d [PATCH 06/10] types: move phys_vec definition to common header
  2025-07-23 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE315d [PATCH 03/10] PCI/P2PDMA: Simplify bus address mapping API
  2025-07-23 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE395d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v10 18/24] block: share more code for bio addition helper
  2025-04-28 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE395d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v10 20/24] blk-mq: add scatterlist-less DMA mapping helpers
  2025-04-28 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE395d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v10 19/24] block: don't merge different kinds of P2P transfers in a single bio
  2025-04-28 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE409d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v9 19/24] block: don't merge different kinds of P2P transfers in a single bio
  2025-04-23 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.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.

• STALE201d [PATCH 08/14] blkdebug: Use error_setg_file_open() for a better error message
  2025-11-20 · Markus Armbruster <hidden>
• STALE201d [PATCH 14/14] block/file-win32: Improve an error message
  2025-11-20 · Markus Armbruster <hidden>
• STALE69d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>