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

• COLD33d REVIEWED: 10 (9M) [PATCH V4 1/3] block: clear BLK_FEAT_PCI_P2PDMA in blk_stack_limits() for non-supporting devices
  2026-05-13 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
• COLD40d [PATCH V3 1/3] block: clear BLK_FEAT_PCI_P2PDMA in blk_stack_limits() for non-supporting devices
  2026-04-16 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
• STALE137d [PATCH V4 3/3] block: change return type to void
  2026-02-11 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
• STALE190d [RFC v2 17/17] bio: add bio_endio_status
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE190d [RFC v2 15/17] bio: never set bi_status to BLK_STS_OK during completion
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE190d [RFC v2 14/17] bio: switch to bio_set_status in submit_bio_noacct
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE190d [RFC v2 10/17] block: optimize blk_status <=> errno conversion
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE190d [RFC v2 11/17] bio: bio_set_status from non-zero errno
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE190d [RFC v2 09/17] block: turn blk_errors array into a macro
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE190d [RFC v2 08/17] block: fix blk_status_to_{errno,str} inconsistency
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE190d [RFC v2 06/17] bio: do not check bio->bi_status before assigning to it
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE190d [RFC v2 05/17] bio: use bio_set_status for BLK_STS_* status codes
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE190d [RFC v2 04/17] bio: add bio_set_status
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE190d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [RFC v2 03/17] bio: use bio_io_error more often
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE190d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [RFC v2 02/17] bio: rename bio_chain arguments
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE192d [RFC 12/12] bio: add bio_endio_status
  2025-12-08 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE192d [RFC 11/12] bio: add bio_endio_errno
  2025-12-08 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE192d [RFC 10/12] bio: never set bi_status to BLK_STS_OK during completion
  2025-12-08 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE192d [RFC 09/12] bio: switch to bio_set_status in submit_bio_noacct
  2025-12-08 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE192d [RFC 08/12] bio: use bio_set_status in some more places
  2025-12-08 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE192d [RFC 07/12] bio: use bio_set_status for BLK_STS_* status codes
  2025-12-08 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE192d [RFC 06/12] bio: don't check target->bi_status on error
  2025-12-08 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE192d [RFC 05/12] bio: add bio_set_status
  2025-12-08 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE192d [RFC 04/12] bio: use bio_set_errno in more places
  2025-12-08 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE192d [RFC 03/12] bio: add bio_set_errno
  2025-12-08 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE192d [RFC 02/12] bio: use bio_io_error more often
  2025-12-08 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE192d [RFC 01/12] bio: rename bio_chain arguments
  2025-12-08 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE132d Re: [PATCH V3 1/6] block: ignore discard return value
  2025-11-25 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <hidden>
• STALE132d REVIEWED: 7 (6M) [PATCH V3 1/6] block: ignore discard return value
  2025-11-24 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <hidden>
• STALE215d [PATCH V2 1/5] block: ignore discard return value
  2025-11-24 · Chaitanya Kulkarni <hidden>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• STALE190d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [RFC v2 02/17] bio: rename bio_chain arguments
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE190d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [RFC v2 03/17] bio: use bio_io_error more often
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> · 1 Reviewed-by

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.

• STALE192d [RFC 04/12] bio: use bio_set_errno in more places
  2025-12-08 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE192d [RFC 07/12] bio: use bio_set_status for BLK_STS_* status codes
  2025-12-08 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE192d [RFC 08/12] bio: use bio_set_status in some more places
  2025-12-08 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE192d [RFC 09/12] bio: switch to bio_set_status in submit_bio_noacct
  2025-12-08 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE192d [RFC 10/12] bio: never set bi_status to BLK_STS_OK during completion
  2025-12-08 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE190d [RFC v2 04/17] bio: add bio_set_status
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE190d [RFC v2 05/17] bio: use bio_set_status for BLK_STS_* status codes
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE190d [RFC v2 06/17] bio: do not check bio->bi_status before assigning to it
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE190d [RFC v2 08/17] block: fix blk_status_to_{errno,str} inconsistency
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
• STALE190d [RFC v2 09/17] block: turn blk_errors array into a macro
  2025-12-21 · Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>