memory management - swap · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
• M Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
• M Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
• R Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
• R Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
• R Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>
• R Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
• R Youngjun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-swap
• F Documentation/mm/swap-table.rst
• F include/linux/swap.h
• F include/linux/swap_ops.h
• F include/linux/swapfile.h
• F include/linux/swapops.h
• F mm/page_io.c
• F mm/swap.h
• F mm/swap_table.h
• F mm/swap_state.c
• F mm/swapfile.c

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• COOLING5d [PATCH 0/3] blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio before blkcg_mutex conversion
  2026-08-23 13:32 · 1 reply in 7d · Yu Kuai <yukuai@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Tao Cui <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-23

Recent patches

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

• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 2/3] blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio instead of blkg
  2026-08-23 · Yu Kuai <yukuai@kernel.org>
• COOLING8d [RFC PATCH v3 2/3] blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio instead of blkg
  2026-08-18 · Yu Kuai <yukuai@kernel.org>
• COOLING14d [RFC PATCH v2 3/4] blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio instead of blkg
  2026-08-11 · Yu Kuai <yukuai@kernel.org>
• COLD22d [RFC PATCH v1 2/3] blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio instead of blkg
  2026-08-04 · Yu Kuai <yukuai@kernel.org>
• STALE178d [PATCH] block: remove bdev_nonrot()
  2026-02-26 · Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
• STALE1124d [PATCH 32/32] block: Rename blkdev_get_handle_by_*() and blkdev_handle_put()
  2023-07-04 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• STALE1184d LANDED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v7 01/20] swap: use __bio_add_page to add page to bio
  2023-05-31 · Johannes Thumshirn <hidden>
• STALE1185d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 01/20] swap: use __bio_add_page to add page to bio
  2023-05-30 · Johannes Thumshirn <hidden>
• STALE1184d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 01/20] swap: use __bio_add_page to add page to bio
  2023-05-02 · Johannes Thumshirn <hidden>
• STALE1225d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 01/22] swap: use __bio_add_page to add page to bio
  2023-04-20 · Johannes Thumshirn <jth@kernel.org>
• STALE1226d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 01/19] swap: use __bio_add_page to add page to bio
  2023-04-19 · Johannes Thumshirn <jth@kernel.org>
• STALE1236d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 01/19] swap: use __bio_add_page to add page to bio
  2023-03-30 · Johannes Thumshirn <hidden>
• STALE1246d [PATCH 01/19] swap: use __bio_add_page to add page to bio
  2023-03-29 · Johannes Thumshirn <hidden>
• STALE1592d LANDED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 26/27] block: decouple REQ_OP_SECURE_ERASE from REQ_OP_DISCARD
  2022-04-15 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1592d LANDED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 24/27] block: remove QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD
  2022-04-15 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1592d LANDED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 14/27] block: add a bdev_stable_writes helper
  2022-04-15 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1592d LANDED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 11/27] block: add a bdev_nonrot helper
  2022-04-15 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1592d LANDED [PATCH 10/27] mm: use bdev_is_zoned in claim_swapfile
  2022-04-15 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1600d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 26/27] block: decouple REQ_OP_SECURE_ERASE from REQ_OP_DISCARD
  2022-04-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1600d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 24/27] block: remove QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD
  2022-04-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1600d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 14/27] block: add a bdev_stable_writes helper
  2022-04-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1600d [PATCH 10/27] mm: use bdev_is_zoned in claim_swapfile
  2022-04-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1600d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 11/27] block: add a bdev_nonrot helper
  2022-04-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1600d [PATCH 26/27] block: uncouple REQ_OP_SECURE_ERASE from REQ_OP_DISCARD
  2022-04-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1600d [PATCH 10/27] block: add a bdev_nonrot helper
  2022-04-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1600d [PATCH 09/27] mm: use bdev_is_zoned in claim_swapfile
  2022-04-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1600d [PATCH 23/27] block: add a bdev_max_discard_sectors helper
  2022-04-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1600d [PATCH 13/27] block: add a bdev_stable_writes helper
  2022-04-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2034d [PATCH 17/17] mm: remove get_swap_bio
  2021-01-26 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2040d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH 03/10] block: store a block_device pointer in struct bio
  2021-01-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>