aio · Supported

Maintainers

• M Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>

Paths

• F fs/aio.c
• F include/linux/*aio*.h

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• COOLING6d [PATCH v2] Fix data races on hrtimer_sleeper ->task field
  2026-09-19 00:14 · 1 reply in 7d · "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
  2 attestations (1 Acked-by, 1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-19
• Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-19

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on netdev (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH 02/12] aio: Use accessor for hrtimer_sleeper ->task field
  2026-09-19 · "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
• COLD23d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v2 03/12] fs: aio: Use acquire/release for ring->tail publication
  2026-09-01 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH 03/11] fs: aio: Use acquire/release for ring->tail publication
  2026-08-25 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE325d [PATCH 02/16] aio: use credential guards
  2025-11-03 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE147d [PATCH v3 03/14] fs: aio: Remove redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock() in spin_lock
  2025-09-16 · pengdonglin <hidden>
• STALE374d [PATCH v2] rcu: Remove redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock() in spin_lock critical sections
  2025-09-15 · pengdonglin <hidden>
• STALE375d [PATCH] rcu: Remove redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock() in spin_lock critical sections
  2025-09-12 · pengdonglin <hidden>
• STALE960d LANDED [PATCH v2 2/4] eventfd: simplify eventfd_signal()
  2023-11-22 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE1169d [PATCH 1/2] eventfd: simplify eventfd_signal()
  2023-07-13 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE1190d [PATCH 09/11] sysctl: Remove the end element in sysctl table arrays
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>
• STALE1330d [PATCH v2 3/6] mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls
  2023-01-25 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1564d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH v3] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-06-08 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE1581d [PATCH v2] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-05-25 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE1585d [PATCH] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-05-20 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE2062d [RFC v3 01/11] eventfd: track eventfd_signal() recursion depth separately in different cases
  2021-01-19 · Xie Yongji <hidden>
• STALE2084d [RFC v2 02/13] eventfd: track eventfd_signal() recursion depth separately in different cases
  2020-12-22 · Xie Yongji <hidden>
• STALE2145d [PATCH RFC PKS/PMEM 35/58] fs: Utilize new kmap_thread()
  2020-10-09 · <hidden>
• STALE2152d [PATCH 4/9] iov_iter: transparently handle compat iovecs in import_iovec
  2020-09-25 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2192d [PATCH 4/9] iov_iter: transparently handle compat iovecs in import_iovec
  2020-09-23 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2086d [PATCH 06/11] iov_iter: handle the compat case in import_iovec
  2020-09-21 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2193d [PATCH 4/9] fs: handle the compat case in import_iovec
  2020-09-18 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 8/9 next] fs: Use iovec_import() instead of import_iovec().
  2020-09-15 · David Laight <hidden>
• STALE2416d [PATCH] treewide: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array member
  2020-02-11 · Gustavo A. R. Silva <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/3] Use a struct for the on-stack 'struct iovec' cache for user sg requests.
  2020-01-24 · David Laight <hidden>
• STALE2489d [PATCH 01/23] y2038: remove CONFIG_64BIT_TIME
  2019-11-08 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
• STALE2706d [PATCH 2/2] y2038: remove CONFIG_64BIT_TIME
  2019-04-26 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
• STALE2753d Re: [PATCH 4/8] Fix aio_poll() races
  2019-03-11 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2753d [PATCH 8/8] aio: move sanity checks and request allocation to io_submit_one()
  2019-03-10 · Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
• STALE2753d [PATCH 7/8] deal with get_reqs_available() in aio_get_req() itself
  2019-03-10 · Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
• STALE2753d [PATCH 6/8] move dropping ->ki_eventfd into iocb_destroy()
  2019-03-10 · Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• COLD23d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v2 03/12] fs: aio: Use acquire/release for ring->tail publication
  2026-09-01 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by