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

• COOLING6d [PATCH 09/11] treewide: Convert custom kernel_param_ops .get callbacks to seq_buf via cocci
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE241d [PATCH RESEND 46/62] init: edit docs for initramfs-related configs
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE241d [PATCH RESEND 42/62] init: rename <linux/initrd.h> to <linux/initramfs.h>
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE241d [PATCH RESEND 19/62] init: remove mentions of "ramdisk=" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE241d [PATCH RESEND 16/62] brd: remove "ramdisk_size" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE241d [PATCH RESEND 06/62] arm: init: remove special logic for setting brd.rd_size
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE263d 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>
• STALE311d LANDED [PATCH 09/10] fs: convert most other generic_file_*mmap() users to .mmap_prepare()
  2025-06-16 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
• STALE672d LANDED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 26/26] block: move the bounce flag into the features field
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE672d LANDED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 25/26] block: move the skip_tagset_quiesce flag to queue_limits
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE672d LANDED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 24/26] block: move the pci_p2pdma flag to queue_limits
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE672d LANDED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 23/26] block: move the zone_resetall flag to queue_limits
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE672d LANDED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 22/26] block: move the zoned flag into the features field
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE672d LANDED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 21/26] block: move the poll flag to queue_limits
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE672d LANDED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 20/26] block: move the dax flag to queue_limits
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE672d LANDED [PATCH 19/26] block: move the nowait flag to queue_limits
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE672d LANDED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 18/26] block: move the synchronous flag to queue_limits
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE672d LANDED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 17/26] block: move the stable_writes flag to queue_limits
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE672d LANDED [PATCH 16/26] block: move the io_stat flag setting to queue_limits
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE672d LANDED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 15/26] block: move the add_random flag to queue_limits
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE672d LANDED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 14/26] block: move the nonrot flag to queue_limits
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE672d LANDED [PATCH 13/26] block: move cache control settings out of queue->flags
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE672d LANDED: 13 (13M) [PATCH 12/26] block: remove blk_flush_policy
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE672d LANDED: 13 (13M) [PATCH 11/26] block: freeze the queue in queue_attr_store
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE672d LANDED: 15 (15M) [PATCH 10/26] nbd: move setting the cache control flags to __nbd_set_size
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE672d LANDED: 18 (17M) [PATCH 09/26] virtio_blk: remove virtblk_update_cache_mode
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE672d LANDED: 13 (13M) [PATCH 08/26] loop: fold loop_update_rotational into loop_reconfigure_limits
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE672d LANDED: 6 (6M) [PATCH 07/26] loop: also use the default block size from an underlying block device
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE672d LANDED: 6 (6M) [PATCH 06/26] loop: regularize upgrading the block size for direct I/O
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>