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

• COLD43d [PATCH 09/12] swap: push down setting sis->bdev into ->swap_activate
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD43d [PATCH 07/12] swap,block: limit swap file size to device size
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD43d [PATCH 06/12] swap,block: move the block device swapon code into block/fops.c
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE75d [PATCH 54/61] aoe: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE333d LANDED [PATCH 09/10] fs: convert most other generic_file_*mmap() users to .mmap_prepare()
  2025-06-16 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE748d LANDED [PATCH] tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str()
  2024-05-16 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE838d [FYI][PATCH] tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str()
  2024-02-23 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE1023d [PATCH 07/11] vfs: add nowait parameter for file_accessed()
  2023-08-27 · Hao Xu <hidden>
• STALE1039d [PATCH 08/29] vfs: add nowait parameter for file_accessed()
  2023-08-25 · Hao Xu <hidden>
• STALE1170d LANDED [PATCH] driver core: class: mark the struct class for sysfs callbacks as constant
  2023-03-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1229d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH 04/17] iov_iter: Define flags to qualify page extraction.
  2023-02-16 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1243d LANDED: 6 (5M) [PATCH 10/23] zram: use bvec_set_page to initialize bvecs
  2023-02-03 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1243d LANDED: 16 (16M) [PATCH 09/23] virtio_blk: use bvec_set_virt to initialize special_vec
  2023-02-03 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1243d LANDED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 08/23] rbd: use bvec_set_page to initialize the copy up bvec
  2023-02-03 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1243d LANDED: 2 (1M) [PATCH 01/23] block: factor out a bvec_set_page helper
  2023-02-03 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1246d [PATCH 10/23] zram: use bvec_set_page to initialize bvecs
  2023-01-30 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1246d [PATCH 09/23] virtio_blk: use bvec_set_virt to initialize special_vec
  2023-01-30 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1246d [PATCH 08/23] rbd: use bvec_set_page to initialize the copy up bvec
  2023-01-30 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1246d [PATCH 01/23] block: factor out a bvec_set_page helper
  2023-01-30 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1299d [PATCH v1 2/3] Treewide: Stop corrupting socket's task_frag
  2022-11-21 · Benjamin Coddington <hidden>
• STALE1334d [PATCH v2 12/12] use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers
  2022-10-28 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE1401d [PATCH net-next] genetlink: start to validate reserved header bytes
  2022-08-25 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• STALE1576d [PATCH 6/6] treewide: remove check of list iterator against head past the loop body
  2022-02-28 · Jakob Koschel <hidden>
• STALE1734d [PATCH v3 2/9] mm: Add 'supports' field to the address_space_operations to list features
  2021-09-24 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE2058d [PATCH RFC PKS/PMEM 07/58] drivers/drbd: Utilize new kmap_thread()
  2020-10-09 · <hidden>
• STALE2224d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH 11/28] tcp: add tcp_sock_set_nodelay
  2020-05-28 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2224d [PATCH 12/28] tcp: add tcp_sock_set_quickack
  2020-05-28 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2224d [PATCH 10/28] tcp: add tcp_sock_set_cork
  2020-05-28 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2229d [PATCH 14/33] tcp: add tcp_sock_set_quickack
  2020-05-20 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2229d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH 13/33] tcp: add tcp_sock_set_nodelay
  2020-05-20 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>