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Latest 30 postings or standalone patches (up to 30), newest first. Counts below cover matching patches in linux-xfs touching this subsystem.

• fs: Various I_DIRTY_* state handling fixes v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 01/13] bdev: Drop pointless loop from blkdev_flush_mapping() 2026-11-13
  2026-11-13 · Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
• ext4: Add dma-buf read/write support v2 · 4 matching patches

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC PATCH v2 1/8] block: factor out bdev_init_dma_buf_io_ctx() 2026-11-13
  • [RFC PATCH v2 4/8] blk-mq: factor out a dma-buf bio refusal helper 2026-11-13
  • [RFC PATCH v2 5/8] blk-crypto: refuse dma-buf bios in the fallback path 2026-11-13
  • [RFC PATCH v2 6/8] fs: add FMODE_CAN_DMABUF_IO and require it for dma-buf I/O contexts 2026-11-13
  2026-11-13 · Mengmeng Zhao <hidden>
• block: fail short atomic bounce bios in bio_iov_iter_bounce_write() v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 1/2] block: fail a short atomic bounce in bio_iov_iter_bounce_write() 2026-11-08
  2026-11-08 · Tal Zussman <hidden>
• [RFC 1/6] block: refuse a dma-buf bio that carries a crypto context 2026-11-05 · Mengmeng Zhao <hidden>
• REVIEWED · 1 review, 0 by maintainers [PATCH 01/25] block: export fs_bio_integrity_verify 2026-11-04 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• iomap: remaining patches for iomap_iter_next conversion v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: LANDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 4/5] iomap: pass iomap_iter_next_fn directly instead of struct iomap_ops 2026-10-27
  2026-10-27 · Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
• fs: support dma-buf backed direct I/O rfc · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC 1/4] block: factor out bdev_init_dma_buf_io_ctx() 2026-10-16
  • [RFC 2/4] block: refuse a dma-buf bio for a disk the buffer was not registered on 2026-10-16
  2026-10-16 · Anuj Gupta <hidden>
• block, ext4: allow encryption with a block size larger than the page size v1 · 7 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 2 of 13 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 03/13] blk-crypto: reject fallback data unit sizes it can't handle 2026-10-11
  • [PATCH 04/13] blk-crypto: decrypt one data unit per crypto request 2026-10-11
  • [PATCH 05/13] blk-crypto: encrypt one data unit per crypto request 2026-10-11
  • [PATCH 06/13] blk-crypto: support data units larger than a page 2026-10-11
  • [PATCH 08/13] block: split encrypted bios at data unit boundaries 2026-10-11
  • [PATCH 09/13] block: warn about bios that can't be split 2026-10-11
  • [PATCH 10/13] block: don't require data unit aligned bio_vecs for encrypted bios 2026-10-11
  2026-10-11 · Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>
• block device fixes for large block sizes, IOCB_NOWAIT, and direct I/O v6 · 8 matching patches

  Entire posting: LANDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v6 1/9] block: use iomap_dirty_folio for block devices 2026-10-09
  • [PATCH v6 2/9] block: take i_rwsem for the direct I/O write fallback 2026-10-09
  • [PATCH v6 3/9] block: take i_rwsem for the splice read path 2026-10-09
  • [PATCH v6 4/9] block: honor IOCB_NOWAIT in the block device buffered read path 2026-10-09
  • [PATCH v6 5/9] block: fail a short atomic pin in bio_iov_iter_get_pages() 2026-10-09
  • [PATCH v6 6/9] block: don't fall back to buffered I/O for atomic writes 2026-10-09
  • [PATCH v6 8/9] block: unpin all pages of a bvec in bio_iov_iter_align_down() 2026-10-09
  • [PATCH v6 9/9] block: remove dead metadata handling from the async direct I/O path 2026-10-09
  2026-10-09 · Tal Zussman <hidden>
• [PATCH 01/21] block: export fs_bio_integrity_verify 2026-09-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• block device fixes for large block sizes, IOCB_NOWAIT, and direct I/O v5 · 8 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v5 1/9] block: use iomap_dirty_folio for block devices 2026-09-23
  • [PATCH v5 2/9] block: take i_rwsem for the direct I/O write fallback 2026-09-23
  • [PATCH v5 3/9] block: take i_rwsem for the splice read path 2026-09-23
  • [PATCH v5 4/9] block: honor IOCB_NOWAIT in the block device buffered read path 2026-09-23
  • [PATCH v5 5/9] block: fail a short atomic pin in bio_iov_iter_get_pages() 2026-09-23
  • [PATCH v5 6/9] block: don't fall back to buffered I/O for atomic writes 2026-09-23
  • [PATCH v5 8/9] block: unpin all pages of a bvec in bio_iov_iter_align_down() 2026-09-23
  • [PATCH v5 9/9] block: remove dead metadata handling from the async direct I/O path 2026-09-23
  2026-09-23 · Tal Zussman <hidden>
• LANDED [PATCH 16/16] block,iomap: remove the old read side bounce buffering support 2026-09-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• LANDED · 1 review, 0 by maintainers [PATCH 09/16] block,iomap: fix protection information verification with initial bvec offset 2026-09-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• LANDED [PATCH 03/16] block: add a bio_prepare_reissue helper 2026-09-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• LANDED · 1 review, 0 by maintainers [PATCH 02/16] block: export fs_bio_integrity_{alloc,free} 2026-09-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• LANDED · 1 review, 0 by maintainers [PATCH 01/16] block: split bio_iov_iter_bounce_write 2026-09-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.12] iomap: don't make REQ_POLLED imply REQ_NOWAIT 2026-08-31 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• [PATCH 17/17] block,iomap: remove the old read side bounce buffering support 2026-08-31 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH 10/17] block,iomap: fix protection information verification with initial bvec offset 2026-08-31 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH 04/17] block: export fs_bio_integrity_{alloc,free} 2026-08-31 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH 03/17] block: split bio_iov_iter_bounce_write 2026-08-31 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH 02/17] block: warn on too larger integrity allocations 2026-08-31 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH 01/17] block: pass a maxlen argument to bio_iov_iter_get_pages 2026-08-31 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• fs-verity support for XFS with post EOF merkle tree v15 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v15 07/25] block: add task-context bio completion infrastructure 2026-08-14
  • [PATCH v15 08/25] block: don't delay bio task completions 2026-08-14
  2026-08-14 · Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org>
• LANDED · 1 review, 0 by maintainers [PATCH 3/3] block: handle nogenerate/noverify properly in fs-integrity 2026-08-04 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• LANDED · 2 reviews, 0 by maintainers [PATCH 2/3] block: lift BIP_CHECK_FLAGS to include/linux/bio-integrity.h 2026-08-04 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• LANDED · 2 reviews, 0 by maintainers [PATCH 1/3] block: remove bip_should_check 2026-08-04 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• block: enable RWF_DONTCACHE for block devices v7 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: LANDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v7 1/5] block: introduce bio_in_atomic() 2026-07-30
  • [PATCH v7 2/5] block: add task-context bio completion infrastructure 2026-07-30
  • [PATCH v7 5/5] block: enable RWF_DONTCACHE for block devices 2026-07-30
  2026-07-30 · Tal Zussman <hidden>
• iomap: convert to in-iter iomap_next() model v5 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: REVIEWED · 19 of 22 landed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v5 14/22] block: convert iomap ops to ->iomap_next() 2026-07-29
  • [PATCH v5 21/22] iomap: pass iomap_iter_next_fn directly instead of struct iomap_ops 2026-07-29
  2026-07-29 · Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
• iomap: convert to in-iter iomap_next() model v4 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v4 13/21] block: convert iomap ops to ->iomap_next() 2026-07-27
  • [PATCH v4 20/21] iomap: pass iomap_iter_next_fn directly instead of struct iomap_ops 2026-07-27
  2026-07-27 · Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>