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)

• Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
  3 attestations (3 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-07-03
• Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-03

Recent patches

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

• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v8 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-07-03 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COOLING9d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-07-01 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COOLING10d [PATCH v6 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-06-29 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 1/9] block: partitions: of: Skip child nodes without reg property
  2026-06-29 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD26d [PATCH v5 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-06-12 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD26d [PATCH v5 1/9] block: partitions: of: Skip child nodes without reg property
  2026-06-12 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD30d [PATCH v4 4/8] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-06-09 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD33d [PATCH v3 4/7] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-06-08 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD59d [PATCH v2 4/8] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-05-07 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE67d [PATCH 3/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-04-28 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE193d [PATCH] blk-mq: skip CPU offline notify on unmapped hctx
  2025-12-30 · Cong Zhang <hidden>
• STALE220d [PATCH v2] blk-mq: Abort suspend when wakeup events are pending
  2025-12-03 · Cong Zhang <hidden>
• STALE221d [PATCH] blk-mq: Abort suspend when wakeup events are pending
  2025-12-02 · Cong Zhang <hidden>
• STALE247d [PATCH] virtio_blk: NULL out vqs to avoid double free on failed resume
  2025-10-21 · Cong Zhang <hidden>
• STALE516d LANDED [PATCH v11 2/7] blk-crypto: show supported key types in sysfs
  2025-02-04 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE516d LANDED [PATCH v11 3/7] blk-crypto: add ioctls to create and prepare hardware-wrapped keys
  2025-02-04 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE516d LANDED [PATCH v11 1/7] blk-crypto: add basic hardware-wrapped key support
  2025-02-04 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE547d [PATCH v10 12/15] blk-crypto: add ioctls to create and prepare hardware-wrapped keys
  2024-12-13 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE547d [PATCH v10 11/15] blk-crypto: show supported key types in sysfs
  2024-12-13 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE547d [PATCH v10 10/15] blk-crypto: add basic hardware-wrapped key support
  2024-12-13 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE579d [PATCH v9 09/12] blk-crypto: add ioctls to create and prepare hardware-wrapped keys
  2024-12-09 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE579d [PATCH v9 08/12] blk-crypto: show supported key types in sysfs
  2024-12-09 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE579d [PATCH v9 07/12] blk-crypto: add basic hardware-wrapped key support
  2024-12-09 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE585d [PATCH RESEND v7 03/17] blk-crypto: add ioctls to create and prepare hardware-wrapped keys
  2024-12-02 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE585d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH RESEND v7 02/17] blk-crypto: show supported key types in sysfs
  2024-12-02 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE585d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH RESEND v7 01/17] blk-crypto: add basic hardware-wrapped key support
  2024-12-02 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE638d [PATCH v7 03/17] blk-crypto: add ioctls to create and prepare hardware-wrapped keys
  2024-10-11 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE638d [PATCH v7 02/17] blk-crypto: show supported key types in sysfs
  2024-10-11 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE638d [PATCH v7 01/17] blk-crypto: add basic hardware-wrapped key support
  2024-10-11 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE632d [PATCH v2 1/3] dm-inlinecrypt: Add inline encryption support
  2024-09-16 · Md Sadre Alam <hidden>

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.

• STALE67d [PATCH 3/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-04-28 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>