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 21 patches in this subsystem on linux-sh, ordered by date desc.

• STALE61d [PATCH 54/61] aoe: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE250d [PATCH RESEND 46/62] init: edit docs for initramfs-related configs
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE250d [PATCH RESEND 42/62] init: rename <linux/initrd.h> to <linux/initramfs.h>
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE250d [PATCH RESEND 19/62] init: remove mentions of "ramdisk=" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE250d [PATCH RESEND 16/62] brd: remove "ramdisk_size" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE250d [PATCH RESEND 06/62] arm: init: remove special logic for setting brd.rd_size
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE271d 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>
• STALE1218d [RFC DO NOT MERGE] treewide: use __xchg in most obvious places
  2023-01-10 · Andrzej Hajda <andrzej.hajda@intel.com>
• STALE1271d [PATCH] treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*()
  2022-12-20 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE1306d Re: [PATCH v4a 00/38] timers: Use timer_shutdown*() before freeing timers
  2022-11-05 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE1777d [PATCH 6/6] mm: remove flush_kernel_dcache_page
  2021-07-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1777d [PATCH 3/6] ps3disk: replace flush_kernel_dcache_page with flush_dcache_page
  2021-07-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2175d [PATCH 1/8] mm: remove unneeded includes of <asm/pgalloc.h>
  2020-06-27 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE2535d [PATCH 28/39] docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents
  2019-06-28 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
• STALE2534d [PATCH v1 11/22] docs: admin-guide: add .rst files from the main dir
  2019-06-18 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
• STALE3065d [PATCH v6 80/99] blk-ioc: Convert to XArray
  2018-01-17 · Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE3065d [PATCH v6 99/99] null_blk: Convert to XArray
  2018-01-17 · Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE3065d [PATCH v6 79/99] blk-cgroup: Convert to XArray
  2018-01-17 · Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE3065d [PATCH v6 69/99] brd: Convert to XArray
  2018-01-17 · Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE3162d [PATCH 01/11] floppy: consolidate the dummy fd_cacheflush definition
  2017-10-03 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE3211d [PATCH 01/12] floppy: consolidate the dummy fd_cacheflush definition
  2017-08-27 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>