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Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-11
• Hannes Reinecke <hare@kernel.org>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-11

Recent patches

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

• COOLING6d [PATCH 04/16] fscrypt: Fully disallow IV_INO_LBLK_32 with s_blocksize != PAGE_SIZE
  2026-06-24 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d [PATCH 05/16] fscrypt: Always use blk-crypto for contents on block-based filesystems
  2026-06-24 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COOLING14d [PATCH 19/19] docs: document discoverable root partitions
  2026-06-15 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• COLD15d [PATCH 3/3] mm/swap: route slot free notifications through swap_ops
  2026-06-14 · Jianyue Wu <hidden>
• COLD19d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 4/4] block: add configurable error injection
  2026-06-11 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD22d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 4/4] block: add configurable error injection
  2026-06-10 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD23d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 4/4] block: add configurable error injection
  2026-06-08 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD24d [PATCH 4/4] block: add configurable error injection
  2026-06-05 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD27d [PATCH 8/9] block: add configurable error injection
  2026-06-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD31d [PATCH v2 2/2] block: Include bvec.h kernel-doc in the htmldocs
  2026-05-28 · "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v15 8/8] docs: add io_queue flag to isolcpus
  2026-05-21 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• COLD42d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v14 8/8] docs: add io_queue flag to isolcpus
  2026-05-20 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• COLD22d [PATCH v7 08/43] fscrypt: add documentation about extent encryption
  2026-05-13 · Daniel Vacek <hidden>
• COLD44d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v13 8/8] docs: add io_queue flag to isolcpus
  2026-05-13 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• COLD45d [PATCH 03/12] swap,fs: move swapfile operations to struct file_operations
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD45d [PATCH 02/12] swap: move boilerplate code into the core swap code
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD56d [PATCH v3 3/3] dm: add documentation for dm-inlinecrypt target
  2026-04-30 · Linlin Zhang <hidden>
• COLD40d [PATCH] dept: update documentation function names to match implementation
  2026-04-28 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• COLD40d [PATCH 12/12] null_blk: Add support for REQ_OP_COPY_*
  2026-04-24 · Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
• COLD57d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v12 13/13] docs: add io_queue flag to isolcpus
  2026-04-22 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE70d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v11 13/13] docs: add io_queue flag to isolcpus
  2026-04-16 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE63d [PATCH v2 3/3] dm: add documentation for dm-inlinecrypt target
  2026-04-10 · Linlin Zhang <hidden>
• STALE78d [PATCH 6/7] Documentation: ublk: address review comments for SHMEM_ZC docs
  2026-04-09 · Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
• STALE63d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2 30/33] docs: rust: general-information: use real example
  2026-04-05 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE63d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2 29/33] docs: rust: general-information: simplify Kconfig example
  2026-04-05 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE63d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2 28/33] docs: rust: quick-start: remove GDB/Binutils mention
  2026-04-05 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE63d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2 27/33] docs: rust: quick-start: remove Nix "unstable channel" note
  2026-04-05 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE63d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 26/33] docs: rust: quick-start: remove Gentoo "testing" note
  2026-04-05 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE63d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 25/33] docs: rust: quick-start: add Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and remove subsection title
  2026-04-05 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE63d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 24/33] docs: rust: quick-start: update minimum Ubuntu version
  2026-04-05 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@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.

• STALE175d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 9/9] blk-crypto: handle the fallback above the block layer
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE171d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 9/9] blk-crypto: handle the fallback above the block layer
  2026-01-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE104d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 2/2] zloop: forget write cache on force removal
  2026-03-19 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE99d REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH 2/2] zloop: forget write cache on force removal
  2026-03-23 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 3 Reviewed-by
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v15 8/8] docs: add io_queue flag to isolcpus
  2026-05-21 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD23d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 4/4] block: add configurable error injection
  2026-06-08 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2 Reviewed-by
• COLD22d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 4/4] block: add configurable error injection
  2026-06-10 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2 Reviewed-by
• COLD19d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 4/4] block: add configurable error injection
  2026-06-11 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2 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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/1] Documentation: admin-guide: blockdev: replace zone_capacity with zone_capacity_mb when creating devices
  2025-12-15 · Yongpeng Yang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH blktests v3 3/3] doc: document how to configure bcache tests
  2026-01-22 · Daniel Wagner <hidden>
• STALE128d Re: [PATCH 29/33] sched/arm64: Move fallback task cpumask to HK_TYPE_DOMAIN
  2026-01-22 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE120d [PATCH blktests v4 3/3] doc: document how to configure bcache tests
  2026-02-12 · Daniel Wagner <hidden>
• STALE113d [PATCH 4/5] zram: update recompression documentation
  2026-02-27 · Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
• STALE113d [PATCH 5/5] zram: remove chained recompression
  2026-02-27 · Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
• STALE113d [PATCH v2 4/6] zram: update recompression documentation
  2026-03-11 · Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
• STALE113d [PATCH v2 5/6] zram: remove chained recompression
  2026-03-11 · Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
• STALE96d [PATCH 3/8] ublk: enable UBLK_F_SHMEM_ZC feature flag
  2026-03-28 · Ming Lei <hidden>
• COLD56d [PATCH v3 3/3] dm: add documentation for dm-inlinecrypt target
  2026-04-30 · Linlin Zhang <hidden>