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

• STALE77d [PATCH 6/6] blk-crypto: Update docs for blk-crypto-fallback motivation
  2026-07-18 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE77d [PATCH 5/6] blk-crypto: Remove unused function blk_crypto_config_supported()
  2026-07-18 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD55d [PATCH v3 03/17] blk-crypto: Allow control over whether hardware is used
  2026-07-13 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD55d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 02/17] blk-crypto: Fold __blk_crypto_cfg_supported() into its caller
  2026-07-13 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD55d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 01/17] blk-crypto: Simplify check for fallback support
  2026-07-13 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE92d [PATCH v2 03/17] blk-crypto: Allow control over whether hardware is used
  2026-07-05 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE92d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 02/17] blk-crypto: Fold __blk_crypto_cfg_supported() into its caller
  2026-07-05 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE92d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 01/17] blk-crypto: Simplify check for fallback support
  2026-07-05 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE102d [PATCH 03/16] blk-crypto: Allow control over whether hardware is used
  2026-06-24 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE102d [PATCH 01/16] blk-crypto: Simplify check for fallback support
  2026-06-24 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE102d [PATCH 02/16] blk-crypto: Fold __blk_crypto_cfg_supported() into its caller
  2026-06-24 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v7 05/43] blk-crypto: add a process bio callback
  2026-05-13 · Daniel Vacek <hidden>
• STALE166d [PATCH v6 05/43] blk-crypto: add a process_bio callback
  2026-02-06 · Daniel Vacek <hidden>
• STALE267d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 9/9] blk-crypto: handle the fallback above the block layer
  2026-01-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE267d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 8/9] blk-crypto: optimize data unit alignment checking
  2026-01-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE267d [PATCH 7/9] blk-crypto: use mempool_alloc_bulk for encrypted bio page allocation
  2026-01-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE267d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6/9] blk-crypto: use on-stack skcipher requests for fallback en/decryption
  2026-01-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE267d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5/9] blk-crypto: optimize bio splitting in blk_crypto_fallback_encrypt_bio
  2026-01-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE267d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 4/9] blk-crypto: submit the encrypted bio in blk_crypto_fallback_bio_prep
  2026-01-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE271d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 9/9] blk-crypto: handle the fallback above the block layer
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE271d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 8/9] blk-crypto: optimize data unit alignment checking
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE271d [PATCH 7/9] blk-crypto: use mempool_alloc_bulk for encrypted bio page allocation
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE271d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6/9] blk-crypto: use on-stack skcipher requests for fallback en/decryption
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE271d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5/9] blk-crypto: optimize bio splitting in blk_crypto_fallback_encrypt_bio
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE271d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 4/9] blk-crypto: submit the encrypted bio in blk_crypto_fallback_bio_prep
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE273d Re: [PATCH 7/9] blk-crypto: use mempool_alloc_bulk for encrypted bio page allocation
  2025-12-19 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE273d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 9/9] blk-crypto: handle the fallback above the block layer
  2025-12-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE273d [PATCH 8/9] blk-crypto: optimize data unit alignment checking
  2025-12-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE273d [PATCH 7/9] blk-crypto: use mempool_alloc_bulk for encrypted bio page allocation
  2025-12-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE273d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6/9] blk-crypto: use on-stack skcipher requests for fallback en/decryption
  2025-12-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>