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 linux-acpi (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COOLING5d [PATCH 09/11] treewide: Convert custom kernel_param_ops .get callbacks to seq_buf via cocci
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COOLING5d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE240d [PATCH RESEND 46/62] init: edit docs for initramfs-related configs
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE240d [PATCH RESEND 42/62] init: rename <linux/initrd.h> to <linux/initramfs.h>
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE240d [PATCH RESEND 19/62] init: remove mentions of "ramdisk=" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE240d [PATCH RESEND 16/62] brd: remove "ramdisk_size" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE240d [PATCH RESEND 06/62] arm: init: remove special logic for setting brd.rd_size
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE787d [PATCH 4/5] [v2] blktrace: convert strncpy() to strscpy_pad()
  2024-04-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE787d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 3/5] [v2] block/partitions/ldm: convert strncpy() to strscpy()
  2024-04-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] aoe: Use helper function IS_ERR_OR_NULL()
  2023-09-20 · wangkaiyuan <hidden>
• STALE1222d LANDED: 19 (18M) [PATCH v2 05/16] driver core: make struct device_type.uevent() take a const *
  2023-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1261d [PATCH] treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*()
  2022-12-20 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE1243d [PATCH 3/5] driver core: make struct device_type.uevent() take a const *
  2022-11-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1296d Re: [PATCH v4a 00/38] timers: Use timer_shutdown*() before freeing timers
  2022-11-05 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 2/2] null_blk: fix wrong use of nr_online_nodes
  2022-05-20 · Peng Liu <hidden>
• STALE1492d [PATCH 2/2] null_blk: fix wrong use of nr_online_nodes
  2022-05-06 · Peng Liu <hidden>
• STALE1864d [RFC PATCH v6 3/4] scheduler: scan idle cpu in cluster for tasks within one LLC
  2021-04-20 · Barry Song <hidden>
• STALE2055d LANDED [RFC] treewide: cleanup unreachable breaks
  2020-10-17 · trix@redhat.com
• STALE2616d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 1/1] treewide: Switch printk users from %pf and %pF to %ps and %pS, respectively
  2019-03-25 · Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
• STALE2630d [PATCH 1/2] treewide: Switch printk users from %pf and %pF to %ps and %pS, respectively
  2019-03-22 · Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
• STALE2942d [PATCH 28/42] drbd: switch to proc_create_single
  2018-05-16 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2942d [PATCH 08/42] proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data}
  2018-05-16 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2942d [PATCH 06/42] proc: introduce proc_create_seq{,_data}
  2018-05-16 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2945d [PATCH 26/40] drbd: switch to proc_create_single
  2018-04-25 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2945d [PATCH 06/40] proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data}
  2018-04-25 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2945d [PATCH 04/40] proc: introduce proc_create_seq{,_data}
  2018-04-25 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2960d [PATCH 25/39] drbd: switch to proc_create_single
  2018-04-19 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2960d [PATCH 04/39] proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data}
  2018-04-19 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2960d [PATCH 02/39] proc: introduce proc_create_seq{,_data}
  2018-04-19 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE3152d [PATCH v2 10/15] nullb: make config_item_type const
  2017-10-16 · Bhumika Goyal <hidden>