locking primitives · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
• M Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
• M Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
• M Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>
• R Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/locking/
• F arch/*/include/asm/spinlock*.h
• F include/linux/local_lock*.h
• F include/linux/lockdep*.h
• F include/linux/mutex*.h
• F include/linux/rwlock*.h
• F include/linux/rwsem*.h
• F include/linux/seqlock.h
• F include/linux/spinlock*.h
• F kernel/locking/
• F lib/locking*.[ch]
• F rust/helpers/mutex.c
• F rust/helpers/spinlock.c
• F rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs
• F rust/kernel/sync/lock/
• F rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs
• X kernel/locking/locktorture.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 15 patches in this subsystem on intel-xe, ordered by date desc.

• STALE105d Re: Regression on linux-next (next-20260324 )
  2026-04-21 · Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
• STALE105d Re: Regression on linux-next (next-20260324 )
  2026-04-21 · Borah, Chaitanya Kumar <hidden>
• STALE105d Re: Regression on linux-next (next-20260324 )
  2026-04-21 · K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
• STALE105d Re: Regression on linux-next (next-20260324 )
  2026-04-20 · Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
• STALE105d Re: Regression on linux-next (next-20260324 )
  2026-03-27 · Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
• STALE183d [i915-rt v5] FOR-CI: drm/i915: Reset lockdep after selftest unload
  2026-01-21 · Maarten Lankhorst <dev@lankhorst.se>
• STALE258d [RFC PATCH 1/2] kernel/locking/ww_mutex: Add per-lock lock-check helpers
  2025-11-20 · Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
• STALE553d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-10 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE572d [PATCH] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-09 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE653d [PATCH v3] locking/ww_mutex: Adjust to lockdep nest_lock requirements
  2024-10-17 · Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
• STALE657d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [CI] locking/ww_mutex: Adjust to lockdep nest_lock requirements
  2024-10-16 · Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
• STALE657d [PATCH v2] locking/ww_mutex: Adjust to lockdep nest_lock requirements
  2024-10-09 · Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
• STALE665d [PATCH RESEND] locking/ww_mutex: Adjust to lockdep nest_lock requirements
  2024-10-02 · Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
• STALE957d [PATCH] locking/ww_mutex: Adjust to lockdep nest_lock requirements
  2023-12-19 · Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1128d [Intel-xe] [CI 05/27] dept: Tie to Lockdep and IRQ tracing
  2023-07-04 · Gwan-gyeong Mun <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.

• STALE105d Re: Regression on linux-next (next-20260324 )
  2026-04-21 · Borah, Chaitanya Kumar <hidden>