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

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM3d [PATCH v2 0/3] Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date
  2026-07-21 13:12 · 1 reply in 7d · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>

Recent patches

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

• WARM3d [PATCH v2 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COOLING14d [PATCH 1/2] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-08 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COLD19d [PATCH 4/7] block: rnull: use vertical import style
  2026-06-29 · Guru Das Srinagesh <hidden>
• COLD43d [PATCH 09/11] treewide: Convert custom kernel_param_ops .get callbacks to seq_buf via cocci
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COLD43d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE99d [PATCH 54/61] aoe: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE142d [PATCH 07/12] mm: add rest_of_page() macro
  2026-02-19 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE229d Re: [PATCH 1/2] PM: runtime: Fix I/O hang due to race between resume and runtime disable
  2025-11-27 · YangYang <hidden>
• STALE229d [PATCH 2/2] blk-mq: Fix I/O hang caused by incomplete device resume
  2025-11-26 · Yang Yang <hidden>
• STALE275d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [RESEND PATCH v18 05/16] rnull: use `kernel::fmt`
  2025-10-18 · Tamir Duberstein <tamird@kernel.org>
• STALE275d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v18 05/16] rnull: use `kernel::fmt`
  2025-10-18 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE213d REVIEWED: 32 (32M) [PATCH v2 17/19] rust: sync: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-09-25 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE311d [PATCH 2/3] block: add support for device frequency PM QoS tuning
  2025-09-14 · Wang Jianzheng <hidden>
• STALE311d [PATCH 1/3] block/genhd: add sysfs knobs for the device frequency PM QoS
  2025-09-14 · Wang Jianzheng <hidden>
• STALE316d [PATCH v2 05/13] Documentation: blk-mq: Convert block layer docs external links
  2025-09-10 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE324d [PATCH 05/14] Documentation: blk-mq: Convert block layer docs external links
  2025-08-29 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE353d REVIEWED: 30 (30M) [PATCH 17/17] rust: sync: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-07-10 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE384d REVIEWED: 30 (30M) [PATCH v13 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-07-01 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE384d REVIEWED: 30 (30M) [PATCH v13 2/5] rust: support formatting of foreign types
  2025-07-01 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE387d [PATCH v12 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-06-19 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE387d [PATCH v12 2/5] rust: support formatting of foreign types
  2025-06-19 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE442d LANDED: 10 (9M) [PATCH 09/19] rnbd-srv: use bio_add_virt_nofail
  2025-05-07 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE442d LANDED: 8 (7M) [PATCH 07/19] block: simplify bio_map_kern
  2025-05-07 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE442d LANDED: 10 (9M) [PATCH 06/19] block: pass the operation to bio_{map,copy}_kern
  2025-05-07 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE442d LANDED: 10 (9M) [PATCH 05/19] block: remove the q argument from blk_rq_map_kern
  2025-05-07 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE442d LANDED: 8 (7M) [PATCH 04/19] block: add a bio_add_vmalloc helpers
  2025-05-07 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE442d LANDED: 8 (7M) [PATCH 03/19] block: add a bio_add_max_vecs helper
  2025-05-07 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE442d LANDED: 10 (9M) [PATCH 02/19] block: add a bdev_rw_virt helper
  2025-05-07 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE442d LANDED: 10 (9M) [PATCH 01/19] block: add a bio_add_virt_nofail helper
  2025-05-07 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE444d REVIEWED: 10 (9M) [PATCH 09/19] rnbd-srv: use bio_add_virt_nofail
  2025-04-30 · 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.

• STALE142d [PATCH 07/12] mm: add rest_of_page() macro
  2026-02-19 · Yury Norov <hidden>