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

• COLD52d Re: [PATCH v7 16/22] dma-direct: make dma_direct_map_phys() honor DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED
  2026-07-08 · Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
• STALE101d [PATCH v1] block: switch numa_node to int in blk_mq_hw_ctx and init_request
  2026-05-23 · Mateusz Nowicki <hidden>
• STALE151d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH 6.1.y v2 2/6] blk-mq: move the call to blk_put_queue out of blk_mq_destroy_queue
  2026-04-02 · Heyne, Maximilian <hidden>
• STALE156d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH 6.1.y 2/8] blk-mq: move the call to blk_put_queue out of blk_mq_destroy_queue
  2026-04-01 · Heyne, Maximilian <hidden>
• STALE124d [PATCH v2 2/3] rust: block: rnull: update to Pin<KBox<QueueData>> for PinInit
  2026-03-15 · Adrián García Casado <hidden>
• STALE175d [PATCH v2 2/3] rust: block: rnull: update to Pin<KBox<QueueData>> for PinInit
  2026-03-15 · Adrián García Casado <hidden>
• STALE175d [PATCH v2 2/3] rust: block: rnull: update to Pin<KBox<QueueData>> for PinInit
  2026-03-15 · Adrian Garcia Cicuelo <hidden>
• STALE180d IN LINUX-NEXT: 3 (0M) [PATCH] blk-mq: nvme: Fix general protection fault in nvme_setup_descriptor_pools()
  2026-03-09 · Sungwoo Kim <hidden>
• STALE187d [PATCH 07/12] mm: add rest_of_page() macro
  2026-02-19 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE207d [PATCH 4/4] blk-mq: use blk_queue_enter/exit to protect debugfs file creation
  2026-02-09 · Yu Kuai <hidden>
• STALE221d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH 09/33] block: Protect against concurrent isolated cpuset change
  2026-01-25 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE195d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH 09/33] block: Protect against concurrent isolated cpuset change
  2026-01-01 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE249d [PATCH 09/33] block: Protect against concurrent isolated cpuset change
  2025-12-24 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE257d [PATCH 09/31] block: Protect against concurrent isolated cpuset change
  2025-11-05 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE305d [PATCH 09/33] block: Protect against concurrent isolated cpuset change
  2025-10-13 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE366d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 2/7] aoe: Stop calling page_address() in free_page()
  2025-09-03 · Vishal Moola (Oracle) <hidden>
• STALE376d LANDED [PATCH v2 3/3] floppy: Sort headers alphabetically
  2025-08-25 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE376d LANDED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 2/3] floppy: Replace custom SZ_64K constant
  2025-08-25 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE542d LANDED [PATCH] block: remove unused parameter
  2025-03-13 · Anuj Gupta <hidden>
• STALE544d LANDED [PATCH v2 2/2] block: change blk_mq_add_to_batch() third argument type to bool
  2025-03-11 · Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <hidden>
• STALE544d [PATCH 2/2] block: change blk_mq_add_to_batch() third argument type to blk_status_t
  2025-03-11 · Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <hidden>
• STALE542d [PATCH 2/2] kcompressd: Add Kcompressd for accelerated zram compression
  2025-03-07 · Qun-Wei Lin <hidden>
• STALE542d [PATCH 1/2] mm: Split BLK_FEAT_SYNCHRONOUS and SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO into separate read and write flags
  2025-03-07 · Qun-Wei Lin <hidden>
• STALE639d [RFC PATCH v1 35/57] virtio: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption
  2024-10-14 · Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
• STALE695d [PATCH] mm: Split BLK_FEAT_SYNCHRONOUS and SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO into separate read and write flags
  2024-10-11 · Qun-Wei Lin <hidden>
• STALE741d [PATCH v3 3/9] block: mtip32xx: Replace deprecated PCI functions
  2024-08-22 · Philipp Stanner <hidden>
• STALE746d [PATCH v2 3/9] block: mtip32xx: Replace deprecated PCI functions
  2024-08-21 · Philipp Stanner <hidden>
• STALE747d [PATCH 4/9] block: mtip32xx: Replace deprecated PCI functions
  2024-08-19 · Philipp Stanner <hidden>
• STALE759d Re: [PATCH v4] blk-cgroup: Replace u64 sync with spinlock for iostat
  2024-07-26 · Boy Wu (吳勃誼) <hidden>
• STALE759d [PATCH v4] blk-cgroup: Replace u64 sync with spinlock for iostat
  2024-07-18 · boy.wu <hidden>

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.

• STALE156d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH 6.1.y 2/8] blk-mq: move the call to blk_put_queue out of blk_mq_destroy_queue
  2026-04-01 · Heyne, Maximilian <hidden> · 3 Reviewed-by
• STALE151d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH 6.1.y v2 2/6] blk-mq: move the call to blk_put_queue out of blk_mq_destroy_queue
  2026-04-02 · Heyne, Maximilian <hidden> · 3 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.

• STALE187d [PATCH 07/12] mm: add rest_of_page() macro
  2026-02-19 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE175d [PATCH v2 2/3] rust: block: rnull: update to Pin<KBox<QueueData>> for PinInit
  2026-03-15 · Adrian Garcia Cicuelo <hidden>
• STALE175d [PATCH v2 2/3] rust: block: rnull: update to Pin<KBox<QueueData>> for PinInit
  2026-03-15 · Adrián García Casado <hidden>
• STALE124d [PATCH v2 2/3] rust: block: rnull: update to Pin<KBox<QueueData>> for PinInit
  2026-03-15 · Adrián García Casado <hidden>
• COLD52d Re: [PATCH v7 16/22] dma-direct: make dma_direct_map_phys() honor DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED
  2026-07-08 · Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>