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

• COLD16d [PATCH v3 3/4] block: drop shared-tag fairness throttling
  2026-06-09 · Sumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@broadcom.com>
• COLD22d [PATCH 09/11] treewide: Convert custom kernel_param_ops .get callbacks to seq_buf via cocci
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COLD22d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE91d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE122d [PATCH 07/12] mm: add rest_of_page() macro
  2026-02-19 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] partitions: mac: fix exposing free space as partitions
  2025-12-20 · René Rebe <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH RESEND] drivers: Add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION to PowerMac drivers
  2025-12-08 · René Rebe <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] drivers: Add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION to PowerMac drivers
  2025-12-05 · René Rebe <hidden>
• STALE266d [PATCH RESEND 46/62] init: edit docs for initramfs-related configs
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE266d [PATCH RESEND 42/62] init: rename <linux/initrd.h> to <linux/initramfs.h>
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE266d [PATCH RESEND 19/62] init: remove mentions of "ramdisk=" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE266d [PATCH RESEND 16/62] brd: remove "ramdisk_size" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE266d [PATCH RESEND 06/62] arm: init: remove special logic for setting brd.rd_size
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE282d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v6 15/16] block-dma: properly take MMIO path
  2025-09-09 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE282d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v6 14/16] block-dma: migrate to dma_map_phys instead of map_page
  2025-09-09 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE301d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 2/7] aoe: Stop calling page_address() in free_page()
  2025-09-03 · Vishal Moola (Oracle) <hidden>
• STALE301d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v5 15/16] block-dma: properly take MMIO path
  2025-09-02 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE301d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v5 14/16] block-dma: migrate to dma_map_phys instead of map_page
  2025-09-02 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE288d 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>
• STALE298d Re: [PATCH v4 15/16] block-dma: properly take MMIO path
  2025-08-28 · Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
• STALE311d LANDED [PATCH v2 3/3] floppy: Sort headers alphabetically
  2025-08-25 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE311d LANDED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 2/3] floppy: Replace custom SZ_64K constant
  2025-08-25 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE298d [PATCH v4 15/16] block-dma: properly take MMIO path
  2025-08-19 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE298d [PATCH v4 14/16] block-dma: migrate to dma_map_phys instead of map_page
  2025-08-19 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE321d [PATCH v3 15/16] block-dma: properly take MMIO path
  2025-08-14 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE321d [PATCH v3 14/16] block-dma: migrate to dma_map_phys instead of map_page
  2025-08-14 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE323d [PATCH v2 15/16] block-dma: properly take MMIO path
  2025-08-14 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE323d [PATCH v2 14/16] block-dma: migrate to dma_map_phys instead of map_page
  2025-08-14 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE323d [PATCH v1 15/16] block-dma: properly take MMIO path
  2025-08-04 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• STALE323d [PATCH v1 14/16] block-dma: migrate to dma_map_phys instead of map_page
  2025-08-04 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>

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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH RESEND] drivers: Add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION to PowerMac drivers
  2025-12-08 · René Rebe <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] partitions: mac: fix exposing free space as partitions
  2025-12-20 · René Rebe <hidden>
• STALE122d [PATCH 07/12] mm: add rest_of_page() macro
  2026-02-19 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE91d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>