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 19 patches in this subsystem on linux-riscv, ordered by date desc.

• COLD20d [PATCH 4/7] block: rnull: use vertical import style
  2026-06-29 · Guru Das Srinagesh <hidden>
• STALE119d [RFC 1/2] block: Introduce the UFQ I/O scheduler
  2026-03-27 · Chengkaitao <hidden>
• STALE113d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE288d [PATCH RESEND 46/62] init: edit docs for initramfs-related configs
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE288d [PATCH RESEND 42/62] init: rename <linux/initrd.h> to <linux/initramfs.h>
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE288d [PATCH RESEND 19/62] init: remove mentions of "ramdisk=" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE288d [PATCH RESEND 16/62] brd: remove "ramdisk_size" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE288d [PATCH RESEND 06/62] arm: init: remove special logic for setting brd.rd_size
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE323d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 2/7] aoe: Stop calling page_address() in free_page()
  2025-09-03 · Vishal Moola (Oracle) <hidden>
• STALE310d 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>
• STALE1256d [RFC DO NOT MERGE] treewide: use __xchg in most obvious places
  2023-01-10 · Andrzej Hajda <andrzej.hajda@intel.com>
• STALE2213d [PATCH 1/8] mm: remove unneeded includes of <asm/pgalloc.h>
  2020-06-27 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE2261d [PATCH v2 03/12] mm: reorder includes after introduction of linux/pgtable.h
  2020-05-14 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE2261d [PATCH v2 02/12] mm: introduce include/linux/pgtable.h
  2020-05-14 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE2264d [PATCH 03/12] mm: reorder includes after introduction of linux/pgtable.h
  2020-05-12 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE2264d [PATCH 02/12] mm: introduce include/linux/pgtable.h
  2020-05-12 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE2482d [RESEND TRIVIAL 1/3] treewide: drivers: Fix Kconfig indentation
  2019-10-04 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
• STALE2497d [PATCH trivial 1/3] treewide: drivers: Fix Kconfig indentation
  2019-09-23 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
• STALE2858d [PATCH 29/30] mm: remove include/linux/bootmem.h
  2018-09-14 · Mike Rapoport <hidden>

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.

• STALE113d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>