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

• [PATCH 54/61] aoe: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• [PATCH RESEND 46/62] init: edit docs for initramfs-related configs
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• [PATCH RESEND 42/62] init: rename <linux/initrd.h> to <linux/initramfs.h>
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• [PATCH RESEND 19/62] init: remove mentions of "ramdisk=" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• [PATCH RESEND 16/62] brd: remove "ramdisk_size" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• [PATCH RESEND 06/62] arm: init: remove special logic for setting brd.rd_size
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• [PATCH v2 2/4] copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree
  2025-09-01 · Simon Schuster via B4 Relay <devnull+schuster.simon.siemens-energy.com@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v2 3/3] floppy: Sort headers alphabetically
  2025-08-25 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• [PATCH v2 2/3] floppy: Replace custom SZ_64K constant
  2025-08-25 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• [RFC DO NOT MERGE] treewide: use __xchg in most obvious places
  2023-01-10 · Andrzej Hajda <andrzej.hajda@intel.com>
• [PATCH v6 6/7] treewide: use get_random_bytes() when possible
  2022-10-10 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v6 2/7] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 2
  2022-10-10 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v6 1/7] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1
  2022-10-10 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v5 6/7] treewide: use get_random_bytes when possible
  2022-10-08 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v5 2/7] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 2
  2022-10-08 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v5 1/7] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1
  2022-10-08 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v4 5/6] treewide: use get_random_bytes when possible
  2022-10-07 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v4 2/6] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible
  2022-10-07 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v4 1/6] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, mechanically
  2022-10-07 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v3 4/5] treewide: use get_random_bytes when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v3 1/5] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH 15/15] block: use bvec_kmap_local in bio_integrity_process
  2021-07-27 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH 14/15] block: use bvec_kmap_local in t10_pi_type1_{prepare,complete}
  2021-07-27 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH 13/15] block: use memcpy_from_bvec in __blk_queue_bounce
  2021-07-27 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH 12/15] block: use memcpy_from_bvec in bio_copy_kern_endio_read
  2021-07-27 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH 11/15] block: use memcpy_to_bvec in copy_to_high_bio_irq
  2021-07-27 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH 10/15] block: rewrite bio_copy_data_iter to use bvec_kmap_local and memcpy_to_bvec
  2021-07-27 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH 09/15] block: remove bvec_kmap_irq and bvec_kunmap_irq
  2021-07-27 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH 08/15] ps3disk: use memcpy_{from,to}_bvec
  2021-07-27 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH 06/15] rbd: use memzero_bvec
  2021-07-27 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>