futex subsystem · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
• M Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
• R Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
• R Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
• R Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
• R André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/locking/*futex*
• F include/asm-generic/futex.h
• F include/linux/futex.h
• F include/uapi/linux/futex.h
• F kernel/futex/*
• F tools/perf/bench/futex*
• F tools/testing/selftests/futex/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• STALE178d [RFC PATCH v4] futex: Introduce __vdso_robust_futex_unlock and __vdso_robust_pi_futex_try_unlock
  2026-03-13 · Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
• STALE288d [PATCH v6 9/9] futex: Use new robust list API internally
  2025-11-22 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE288d [PATCH v6 8/9] selftests/futex: Expand for get_robust_list2()
  2025-11-22 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE288d [PATCH v6 7/9] selftests/futex: Expand for set_robust_list2()
  2025-11-22 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE288d [PATCH v6 3/9] futex: Create set_robust_list2() syscall
  2025-11-22 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE288d [PATCH v6 1/9] futex: Use explicit sizes for compat_robust_list structs
  2025-11-22 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE433d [PATCH v5 7/7] selftests: futex: Expand robust list test for the new interface
  2025-06-26 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE433d [PATCH v5 4/7] futex: Create set_robust_list2
  2025-06-26 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE433d [PATCH v5 3/7] futex: Use explicit sizes for compat_exit_robust_list
  2025-06-26 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE433d [PATCH v5 2/7] selftests/futex: Create test for robust list
  2025-06-26 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE433d [PATCH v5 1/7] selftests/futex: Add ASSERT_ macros
  2025-06-26 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE446d [PATCH RESEND v4 7/7] selftests: futex: Expand robust list test for the new interface
  2025-06-17 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE446d [PATCH RESEND v4 3/7] futex: Use explicit sizes for compat_exit_robust_list
  2025-06-17 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE446d [PATCH RESEND v4 4/7] futex: Create set_robust_list2
  2025-06-17 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE446d [PATCH RESEND v4 2/7] selftests/futex: Create test for robust list
  2025-06-17 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE446d [PATCH RESEND v4 1/7] selftests/futex: Add ASSERT_ macros
  2025-06-17 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE473d [PATCH v4 7/7] selftests: futex: Expand robust list test for the new interface
  2025-05-20 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE473d [PATCH v4 4/7] futex: Create set_robust_list2
  2025-05-20 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE473d [PATCH v4 3/7] futex: Use explicit sizes for compat_exit_robust_list
  2025-05-20 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE473d [PATCH v4 2/7] selftests/futex: Create test for robust list
  2025-05-20 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE473d [PATCH v4 1/7] selftests/futex: Add ASSERT_ macros
  2025-05-20 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE559d [PATCH v4 1/5] futex: Use explicit sizes for compat_exit_robust_list
  2025-02-25 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE559d [PATCH v4 5/5] selftests: futex: Expand robust list test for the new interface
  2025-02-25 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE559d [PATCH v4 2/5] futex: Create set_robust_list2
  2025-02-25 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE627d [PATCH v3 2/3] futex: Create set_robust_list2
  2024-12-17 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE627d [PATCH v3 1/3] futex: Use explicit sizes for compat_exit_robust_list
  2024-12-17 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE671d [PATCH v2 2/3] futex: Create set_robust_list2
  2024-11-01 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE671d [PATCH v2 1/3] futex: Use explicit sizes for compat_exit_robust_list
  2024-11-01 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE681d [PATCH RFC 1/1] futex: Create set_robust_list2
  2024-10-24 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE835d [PATCH v2 1/1] futex: Add FUTEX_SPIN operation
  2024-05-23 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>