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

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Daniel P. Berrangé <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-28
• Jason J. Herne <jjherne@linux.ibm.com>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-28
• Dr. David Alan Gilbert <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-28
• Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-28
• Amit Machhiwal <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-11

Recent patches

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

• WARM2d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 35/62] qom: convert scalar properties to QAPI-aware registration
  2026-09-11 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v5 17/62] qom: convert struct properties to QAPI-aware registration
  2026-09-11 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH v4 46/75] qom: convert scalar properties to QAPI-aware registration
  2026-09-04 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH v4 17/75] qom: convert struct properties to QAPI-aware registration
  2026-09-04 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [GIT PULL 37/50] monitor: tighten monitor_printf*()
  2026-08-28 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 3 (1M) [GIT PULL 31/50] monitor: change HMPCommand cmd to take MonitorHMP
  2026-08-28 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden>
• COLD20d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 37/50] monitor: tighten monitor_printf*()
  2026-08-28 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden>
• COLD20d REVIEWED: 3 (1M) [PATCH v5 31/50] monitor: change HMPCommand cmd to take MonitorHMP
  2026-08-28 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH v4 36/49] monitor: tighten monitor_printf*()
  2026-08-25 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden>
• COLD17d REVIEWED: 3 (1M) [PATCH v4 30/49] monitor: change HMPCommand cmd to take MonitorHMP
  2026-08-25 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH v3 45/74] qom: convert scalar properties to QAPI-aware registration
  2026-08-18 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH v3 16/74] qom: convert struct properties to QAPI-aware registration
  2026-08-18 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH v3 37/49] monitor: tighten monitor_printf*()
  2026-08-16 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH v3 31/49] monitor: change HMPCommand cmd to take MonitorHMP
  2026-08-16 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden>
• STALE79d [PATCH v2 4/7] system/physmem: Pass RAMBlock to RAMBlockNotifier callbacks
  2026-07-03 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 1/3] system/physmem: Pass RAMBlock to RAMBlockNotifier callbacks
  2026-06-11 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• STALE102d [PATCH 09/11] treewide: Convert custom kernel_param_ops .get callbacks to seq_buf via cocci
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE102d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE174d [PATCH v2 03/15] block: Use glib2 instead of strcasecmp/strncasecmp
  2026-03-27 · Kostiantyn Kostiuk <hidden>
• STALE157d [PATCH 54/61] aoe: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE171d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE298d [PATCH v2 09/15] blkdebug: Use error_setg_file_open() for a better error message
  2025-11-22 · Markus Armbruster <hidden>
• STALE298d [PATCH v2 15/15] block/file-win32: Improve an error message
  2025-11-22 · Markus Armbruster <hidden>
• STALE302d [PATCH 14/14] block/file-win32: Improve an error message
  2025-11-20 · Markus Armbruster <hidden>
• STALE302d [PATCH 08/14] blkdebug: Use error_setg_file_open() for a better error message
  2025-11-20 · Markus Armbruster <hidden>
• STALE261d LANDED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v9 02/11] PCI/P2PDMA: Simplify bus address mapping API
  2025-11-20 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE304d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v8 02/11] PCI/P2PDMA: Simplify bus address mapping API
  2025-11-11 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE306d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v7 02/11] PCI/P2PDMA: Simplify bus address mapping API
  2025-11-06 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE277d [PATCH v6 02/11] PCI/P2PDMA: Simplify bus address mapping API
  2025-11-02 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE324d [PATCH v5 5/9] types: move phys_vec definition to common header
  2025-10-13 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>

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.

• COLD17d REVIEWED: 3 (1M) [PATCH v4 30/49] monitor: change HMPCommand cmd to take MonitorHMP
  2026-08-25 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden> · 3 Reviewed-by
• COLD20d REVIEWED: 3 (1M) [PATCH v5 31/50] monitor: change HMPCommand cmd to take MonitorHMP
  2026-08-28 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden> · 3 Reviewed-by
• COLD20d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 37/50] monitor: tighten monitor_printf*()
  2026-08-28 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 3 (1M) [GIT PULL 31/50] monitor: change HMPCommand cmd to take MonitorHMP
  2026-08-28 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden> · 3 Reviewed-by
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [GIT PULL 37/50] monitor: tighten monitor_printf*()
  2026-08-28 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by

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.

• STALE171d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 1/3] system/physmem: Pass RAMBlock to RAMBlockNotifier callbacks
  2026-06-11 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• STALE79d [PATCH v2 4/7] system/physmem: Pass RAMBlock to RAMBlockNotifier callbacks
  2026-07-03 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH v3 16/74] qom: convert struct properties to QAPI-aware registration
  2026-08-18 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH v3 45/74] qom: convert scalar properties to QAPI-aware registration
  2026-08-18 · Marc-André Lureau <hidden>