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

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-17

Recent patches

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

• COLD19d [PATCH] virtio-blk: use little-endian types for the zoned fields
  2026-06-17 · Michael Bommarito <hidden>
• COLD22d [PATCH v1 2/2] virtio-blk: mark disk dead on ERS permanent failure
  2026-06-15 · Xixin Liu <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH v3 3/4] block: drop shared-tag fairness throttling
  2026-06-09 · Sumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@broadcom.com>
• COLD28d [PATCH v2] virtio-blk: clamp zone report to the report buffer capacity
  2026-06-07 · Michael Bommarito <hidden>
• COLD30d [PATCH] virtio-blk: clamp zone report to the report buffer capacity
  2026-06-06 · Michael Bommarito <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH 09/11] treewide: Convert custom kernel_param_ops .get callbacks to seq_buf via cocci
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COLD26d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE62d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v12 11/13] blk-mq: prevent offlining hk CPUs with associated online isolated CPUs
  2026-04-22 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE62d [PATCH v12 10/13] blk-mq: use hk cpus only when isolcpus=io_queue is enabled
  2026-04-22 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE62d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v12 08/13] virtio: blk/scsi: use block layer helpers to constrain queue affinity
  2026-04-22 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE62d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v12 05/13] blk-mq: add blk_mq_{online|possible}_queue_affinity
  2026-04-22 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE75d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v11 11/13] blk-mq: prevent offlining hk CPUs with associated online isolated CPUs
  2026-04-16 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE75d [PATCH v11 10/13] blk-mq: use hk cpus only when isolcpus=io_queue is enabled
  2026-04-16 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE75d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v11 08/13] virtio: blk/scsi: use block layer helpers to constrain queue affinity
  2026-04-16 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE75d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v11 05/13] blk-mq: add blk_mq_{online|possible}_queue_affinity
  2026-04-16 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE82d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v10 08/13] virtio: blk/scsi: use block layer helpers to constrain queue affinity
  2026-04-01 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE82d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v10 11/13] blk-mq: prevent offlining hk CPUs with associated online isolated CPUs
  2026-04-01 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE82d [PATCH v10 10/13] blk-mq: use hk cpus only when isolcpus=io_queue is enabled
  2026-04-01 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE82d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v10 05/13] blk-mq: add blk_mq_{online|possible}_queue_affinity
  2026-04-01 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE95d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v9 11/13] blk-mq: prevent offlining hk CPUs with associated online isolated CPUs
  2026-03-30 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE95d [PATCH v9 10/13] blk-mq: use hk cpus only when isolcpus=io_queue is enabled
  2026-03-30 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE95d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v9 08/13] virtio: blk/scsi: use block layer helpers to constrain queue affinity
  2026-03-30 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE95d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v9 05/13] blk-mq: add blk_mq_{online|possible}_queue_affinity
  2026-03-30 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• STALE95d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE210d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.12] virtio_blk: NULL out vqs to avoid double free on failed resume
  2025-12-09 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE213d [PATCH v3 8/9] zram: Replace the repetitive bio chaining code patterns
  2025-11-29 · zhangshida <hidden>
• STALE213d [PATCH v3 4/9] block: export bio_chain_and_submit
  2025-11-29 · zhangshida <hidden>
• STALE213d [PATCH v3 3/9] block: prevent race condition on bi_status in __bio_chain_endio
  2025-11-29 · zhangshida <hidden>
• STALE213d [PATCH v3 2/9] block: prohibit calls to bio_chain_endio
  2025-11-29 · zhangshida <hidden>
• STALE212d [PATCH v2 10/12] zram: Replace the repetitive bio chaining code patterns
  2025-11-28 · zhangshida <hidden>

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.

• STALE95d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE75d [PATCH v11 10/13] blk-mq: use hk cpus only when isolcpus=io_queue is enabled
  2026-04-16 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>