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

• STALE270d [PATCH RESEND 46/62] init: edit docs for initramfs-related configs
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE270d [PATCH RESEND 42/62] init: rename <linux/initrd.h> to <linux/initramfs.h>
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE270d [PATCH RESEND 19/62] init: remove mentions of "ramdisk=" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE270d [PATCH RESEND 16/62] brd: remove "ramdisk_size" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE270d [PATCH RESEND 06/62] arm: init: remove special logic for setting brd.rd_size
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE371d [RFC v2 20/22] block: sysfs API specifications
  2025-06-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE426d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v12 01/17] fs: add atomic write unit max opt to statx
  2025-05-06 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• STALE427d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v11 01/16] fs: add atomic write unit max opt to statx
  2025-05-04 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• STALE428d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v10 01/15] fs: add atomic write unit max opt to statx
  2025-05-01 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• STALE432d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v9 01/15] fs: add atomic write unit max opt to statx
  2025-04-25 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• STALE440d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v8 01/15] fs: add atomic write unit max opt to statx
  2025-04-22 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• STALE440d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v7 01/14] fs: add atomic write unit max opt to statx
  2025-04-15 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• STALE796d [RFC PATCH 1/1] Remove buffered failover for ext4 and block fops direct writes.
  2024-05-01 · Jeremy Bongio <hidden>
• STALE945d [PATCH 06/21] block: Pass blk_queue_get_max_sectors() a request pointer
  2023-09-29 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• STALE945d [PATCH 10/21] block: Add fops atomic write support
  2023-09-29 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• STALE945d [PATCH 09/21] block: Add checks to merging of atomic writes
  2023-09-29 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• STALE945d [PATCH 08/21] block: Error an attempt to split an atomic write bio
  2023-09-29 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• STALE945d [PATCH 03/21] fs/bdev: Add atomic write support info to statx
  2023-09-29 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• STALE945d [PATCH 01/21] block: Add atomic write operations to request_queue limits
  2023-09-29 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• STALE945d [PATCH 07/21] block: Limit atomic write IO size according to atomic_write_max_sectors
  2023-09-29 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• STALE945d [PATCH 02/21] block: Limit atomic writes according to bio and queue limits
  2023-09-29 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• STALE1358d LANDED [PATCH v5 2/8] vfs: support STATX_DIOALIGN on block devices
  2022-08-27 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE1410d [PATCH v4 2/9] vfs: support STATX_DIOALIGN on block devices
  2022-07-22 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE1590d LANDED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v4 1/3] block: simplify calling convention of elv_unregister_queue()
  2022-01-25 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE1590d LANDED: 24 (24M) [PATCH v4 2/3] block: don't delete queue kobject before its children
  2022-01-25 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE1590d LANDED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 3/3] blk-crypto: show crypto capabilities in sysfs
  2022-01-25 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE1666d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3 1/3] block: simplify calling convention of elv_unregister_queue()
  2021-12-08 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE1666d REVIEWED: 20 (20M) [PATCH v3 2/3] block: don't delete queue kobject before its children
  2021-12-08 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE1666d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3 3/3] blk-crypto: show crypto capabilities in sysfs
  2021-12-08 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE1679d [PATCH v2 3/3] blk-crypto: show crypto capabilities in sysfs
  2021-11-30 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>