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

• COLD25d [PATCH 09/12] swap: push down setting sis->bdev into ->swap_activate
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD25d [PATCH 07/12] swap,block: limit swap file size to device size
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD25d [PATCH 06/12] swap,block: move the block device swapon code into block/fops.c
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD57d [PATCH 54/61] aoe: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE70d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE221d REVIEWED: 9 (8M) [PATCH 6.1 7/8] block: fix race between set_blocksize and read paths
  2025-10-21 · Mahmoud Adam <hidden>
• STALE221d REVIEWED: 10 (9M) [PATCH 6.1 6/8] block: open code __generic_file_write_iter for blkdev writes
  2025-10-21 · Mahmoud Adam <hidden>
• STALE266d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v2 04/33] block: use extensible_ioctl_valid()
  2025-09-12 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE230d [PATCH 03/32] block: use extensible_ioctl_valid()
  2025-09-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE315d Re: [RFC PATCH v2 4/8] lib/iov_iter: remove piecewise bvec length checking in iov_iter_aligned_bvec
  2025-08-01 · Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
• STALE315d LANDED [PATCH 09/10] fs: convert most other generic_file_*mmap() users to .mmap_prepare()
  2025-06-16 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE372d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 net-next 2/7] socket: Rename sock_create_kern() to __sock_create_kern().
  2025-05-23 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <hidden>
• STALE730d LANDED [PATCH] tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str()
  2024-05-16 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE820d [FYI][PATCH] tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str()
  2024-02-23 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE968d [PATCH 03/19] fs: release anon dev_t in deactivate_locked_super
  2023-09-13 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1005d [PATCH 07/11] vfs: add nowait parameter for file_accessed()
  2023-08-27 · Hao Xu <hidden>
• STALE1021d [PATCH 08/29] vfs: add nowait parameter for file_accessed()
  2023-08-25 · Hao Xu <hidden>
• STALE1053d Re: NFS workload leaves nfsd threads in D state
  2023-07-11 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1053d Re: NFS workload leaves nfsd threads in D state
  2023-07-10 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1047d [PATCH 32/32] block: Rename blkdev_get_handle_by_*() and blkdev_handle_put()
  2023-07-04 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE1047d [PATCH 01/32] block: Provide blkdev_get_handle_* functions
  2023-07-04 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE1003d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH 04/12] filemap: add a kiocb_write_and_wait helper
  2023-06-01 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1107d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH 04/12] filemap: add a kiocb_write_and_wait helper
  2023-05-31 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1108d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH 4/8] filemap: add a kiocb_write_and_wait helper
  2023-05-31 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1109d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 04/11] filemap: add a kiocb_write_and_wait helper
  2023-05-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1012d Re: [PATCH 16/17] block: use iomap for writes to block devices
  2023-05-19 · Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
• STALE1072d [PATCH 04/13] filemap: add a kiocb_write_and_wait helper
  2023-05-19 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1012d Re: [PATCH 17/17] fs: add CONFIG_BUFFER_HEAD
  2023-05-01 · Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• STALE1012d [PATCH 17/17] fs: add CONFIG_BUFFER_HEAD
  2023-04-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1012d [PATCH 16/17] block: use iomap for writes to block devices
  2023-04-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

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.

• STALE70d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>