ramdisk ram block device driver · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Paths

• F Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst
• F drivers/block/brd.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-ext4 (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• STALE303d [PATCH RESEND 42/62] init: rename <linux/initrd.h> to <linux/initramfs.h>
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE303d [PATCH RESEND 16/62] brd: remove "ramdisk_size" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE303d [PATCH RESEND 15/62] doc: modernize Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE303d [PATCH RESEND 06/62] arm: init: remove special logic for setting brd.rd_size
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE303d [PATCH RESEND 05/62] init: remove "ramdisk_start" command line parameter, which controls starting block number of initrd
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE1963d [RFC PATCH 2/8] brd: use memcpy_from_page() in copy_from_brd()
  2021-02-07 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <hidden>
• STALE1963d [RFC PATCH 1/8] brd: use memcpy_from_page() in copy_from_brd()
  2021-02-07 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <hidden>
• STALE3464d Re: [PATCHv6 12/37] brd: make it handle huge pages
  2017-02-10 · Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE3464d [PATCHv6 12/37] brd: make it handle huge pages
  2017-01-26 · Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>
• STALE3538d [PATCHv5 12/36] brd: make it handle huge pages
  2016-11-29 · Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>
• STALE3574d [PATCHv4 19/43] brd: make it handle huge pages
  2016-10-25 · Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>
• STALE3656d Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm/block: convert rw_page users to bio op use
  2016-08-05 · Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
• STALE3656d Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm/block: convert rw_page users to bio op use
  2016-08-05 · Mike Christie <hidden>
• STALE3656d [PATCH 1/1] mm/block: convert rw_page users to bio op use
  2016-08-04 · Mike Christie <hidden>
• STALE3657d [PATCH 08/45] block, fs, mm, drivers: use bio set/get op accessors
  2016-06-05 · <hidden>
• STALE3741d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v7 2/6] dax: enable dax in the presence of known media errors (badblocks)
  2016-05-11 · Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
• STALE3742d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v6 2/5] dax: enable dax in the presence of known media errors (badblocks)
  2016-05-10 · Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
• STALE3743d [PATCH v5 2/5] dax: enable dax in the presence of known media errors (badblocks)
  2016-05-06 · Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
• STALE3745d [PATCH v4 1/7] block, dax: pass blk_dax_ctl through to drivers
  2016-04-28 · Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
• STALE3760d [PATCH v3 1/7] block, dax: pass blk_dax_ctl through to drivers
  2016-04-23 · Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
• STALE3760d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 37/42] block, fs, drivers: do use bi_rw/cmd_flags for REQ_OPs.
  2016-04-15 · <hidden>
• STALE3760d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 37/42] block, fs, drivers: do use bi_rw/cmd_flags for REQ_OPs.
  2016-04-15 · <hidden>
• STALE3769d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 37/42] block, fs, drivers: do use bi_rw/cmd_flags for REQ_OPs.
  2016-04-13 · <hidden>
• STALE3784d [PATCH v2 1/5] block, dax: pass blk_dax_ctl through to drivers
  2016-03-30 · Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
• STALE3779d [PATCH 1/5] block, dax: pass blk_dax_ctl through to drivers
  2016-03-24 · Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
• STALE3814d [PATCH 30/35] block, fs, drivers: do not test bi_rw for REQ_OPs
  2016-02-24 · <hidden>
• STALE3856d [PATCH 30/35] block, fs, drivers: do not test bi_rw for REQ_OPs
  2016-01-11 · <hidden>
• STALE3864d [PATCH 30/35] block, fs, drivers: do not test bi_rw for REQ_OPs
  2016-01-05 · <hidden>
• STALE4573d [PATCH v5 04/22] Change direct_access calling convention
  2014-01-16 · Matthew Wilcox <hidden>
• STALE4612d [PATCH v4 04/22] Change direct_access calling convention
  2013-12-22 · Matthew Wilcox <hidden>