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 10 patches in this subsystem on linux-perf-users, ordered by date desc.

• STALE67d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE263d LANDED: 1 (0M) [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>
• STALE319d [PATCH v5 3/3] treewide: Switch from tsk->comm to tsk->comm_str which is 64 bytes long
  2025-07-16 · Bhupesh <hidden>
• STALE972d [PATCH 6/7] fs/sysfs/group: make attribute_group pointers const
  2023-10-09 · Max Kellermann <hidden>
• STALE1707d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 09/16] cpumask: replace cpumask_next_* with cpumask_first_* where appropriate
  2021-10-05 · Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
• STALE1707d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 07/16] all: replace find_next{,_zero}_bit with find_first{,_zero}_bit where appropriate
  2021-10-05 · Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
• STALE1710d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 09/16] cpumask: replace cpumask_next_* with cpumask_first_* where appropriate
  2021-10-01 · Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
• STALE1710d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 07/16] all: replace find_next{,_zero}_bit with find_first{,_zero}_bit where appropriate
  2021-10-01 · Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
• STALE1743d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 09/17] cpumask: replace cpumask_next_* with cpumask_first_* where appropriate
  2021-08-14 · Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
• STALE1743d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 07/17] all: replace find_next{,_zero}_bit with find_first{,_zero}_bit where appropriate
  2021-08-14 · Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>

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.

• STALE67d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>