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

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] partitions/efi: reject GPT entries with starting_lba > ending_lba
  2026-07-27 04:07 · 0 replies in 7d · Nguyen Le Thanh Tung <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] block: store GPT attributes as a raw value
  2026-07-24 18:16 · 0 replies in 7d · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] partitions/efi: reject GPT entries with starting_lba > ending_lba
  2026-07-27 · Nguyen Le Thanh Tung <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] block: store GPT attributes as a raw value
  2026-07-24 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• COLD30d [PATCH v2] block: partitions: Use seq_buf_putc() at 24 places
  2026-06-29 · Markus Elfring <hidden>
• COLD41d [PATCH 16/19] block: don't discover partition with DPS no-auto GPT attribute
  2026-06-15 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• COLD41d [PATCH 15/19] block: store GPT attributes as a raw value
  2026-06-15 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• COLD41d [PATCH 14/19] block: add early_lookup_bdev_by_type_uuid()
  2026-06-15 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• COLD41d [PATCH 13/19] block: store GPT partition type UUID
  2026-06-15 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• STALE127d [PATCH] block: partitions: Replace pp_buf with struct seq_buf
  2026-03-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE189d [PATCH 12/44] block: use min() instead of min_t()
  2025-11-19 · <hidden>
• STALE292d [PATCH RESEND 46/62] init: edit docs for initramfs-related configs
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE292d [PATCH RESEND 42/62] init: rename <linux/initrd.h> to <linux/initramfs.h>
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE292d [PATCH RESEND 19/62] init: remove mentions of "ramdisk=" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE292d [PATCH RESEND 16/62] brd: remove "ramdisk_size" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE292d [PATCH RESEND 06/62] arm: init: remove special logic for setting brd.rd_size
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE326d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 2/7] aoe: Stop calling page_address() in free_page()
  2025-09-03 · Vishal Moola (Oracle) <hidden>
• STALE371d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] Fixed several coding style issues in the efi driver as reported by checkpatch.pl:
  2025-07-22 · Dishank Jogi <hidden>
• STALE487d LANDED [PATCH V3] block: fix conversion of GPT partition name to 7-bit
  2025-03-05 · Ming Lei <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies LANDED [PATCH v2 1/1 RESEND] block: fix conversion of GPT partition name to 7-bit
  2025-02-18 · Olivier Gayot <hidden>
• STALE524d LANDED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v5 04/12] driver core: Constify API device_find_child() and adapt for various usages
  2024-12-24 · Zijun Hu <hidden>
• STALE572d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v4 04/11] driver core: Constify API device_find_child() then adapt for various usages
  2024-12-11 · Zijun Hu <hidden>
• STALE597d [PATCH v3 04/11] driver core: Constify API device_find_child() then adapt for various usages
  2024-12-05 · Zijun Hu <hidden>
• STALE958d [RFC PATCH 4/6] block: partitions: efi: Move GPT-specific code to a new library
  2023-12-11 · Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@bootlin.com>
• STALE958d [RFC PATCH 3/6] block: partitions: efi: Separate out GPT-specific code
  2023-12-11 · Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@bootlin.com>
• STALE958d [RFC PATCH 2/6] block: partitions: efi: Fix some style issues
  2023-12-11 · Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@bootlin.com>
• STALE958d [RFC PATCH 1/6] block: partitions: efi: Move efi.h header to include/linux/gpt.h
  2023-12-11 · Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@bootlin.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 1/1] block: fix conversion of GPT partition name to 7-bit
  2023-05-23 · Olivier Gayot <hidden>
• STALE1153d [PATCH 4/4] powerpc/pseries: update SED for PLPKS api changes
  2023-05-05 · <hidden>
• STALE1153d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 3/4] block: sed-opal: keystore access for SED Opal keys
  2023-05-05 · <hidden>
• STALE1153d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 1/4] block:sed-opal: SED Opal keystore
  2023-05-05 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 3/3] block: sed-opal: keyring support for SED keys
  2023-05-05 · <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.

• COLD41d [PATCH 13/19] block: store GPT partition type UUID
  2026-06-15 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• COLD41d [PATCH 14/19] block: add early_lookup_bdev_by_type_uuid()
  2026-06-15 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• COLD41d [PATCH 15/19] block: store GPT attributes as a raw value
  2026-06-15 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• COLD41d [PATCH 16/19] block: don't discover partition with DPS no-auto GPT attribute
  2026-06-15 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>