atomic infrastructure · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
• M Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
• M Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>
• R Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
• R Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>

Paths

• F Documentation/atomic_*.txt
• F arch/*/include/asm/atomic*.h
• F include/*/atomic*.h
• F include/linux/refcount.h
• F scripts/atomic/
• F rust/kernel/sync/atomic.rs
• F rust/kernel/sync/atomic/
• F rust/kernel/sync/refcount.rs

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-08-31

Recent patches

Most-recent 22 patches in this subsystem on linux-arm-kernel, ordered by date desc.

• WARM2d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v15 08/16] locking/atomic: scripts: build atomic_long_cond_read_*_timeout()
  2026-08-31 · Ankur Arora <hidden>
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v14 08/15] locking/atomic: scripts: build atomic_long_cond_read_*_timeout()
  2026-07-14 · Ankur Arora <hidden>
• STALE68d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v13 08/15] locking/atomic: scripts: build atomic_long_cond_read_*_timeout()
  2026-07-02 · Ankur Arora <hidden>
• STALE90d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v12 08/15] locking/atomic: scripts: build atomic_long_cond_read_*_timeout()
  2026-06-08 · Ankur Arora <hidden>
• STALE114d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v11 08/14] locking/atomic: scripts: build atomic_long_cond_read_*_timeout()
  2026-04-08 · Ankur Arora <hidden>
• STALE162d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v10 08/12] locking/atomic: scripts: build atomic_long_cond_read_*_timeout()
  2026-03-16 · Ankur Arora <hidden>
• STALE207d [PATCH v9 08/12] locking/atomic: scripts: build atomic_long_cond_read_*_timeout()
  2026-02-09 · Ankur Arora <hidden>
• STALE235d [PATCH v8 08/12] locking/atomic: scripts: build atomic_long_cond_read_*_timeout()
  2025-12-15 · Ankur Arora <hidden>
• STALE815d [RFC 2/2] rust: sync: Add atomic support
  2024-06-12 · Boqun Feng <hidden>
• STALE815d [RFC 1/2] rust: Introduce atomic API helpers
  2024-06-12 · Boqun Feng <hidden>
• STALE863d [PATCH 3/4] locking/atomic: Annotate generic atomics with wrapping
  2024-04-24 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE879d [WIP 3/3] rust: atomic: Add fetch_sub_release()
  2024-03-22 · Boqun Feng <hidden>
• STALE879d [WIP 2/3] rust: atomic: Add ARM64 fetch_add_relaxed()
  2024-03-22 · Boqun Feng <hidden>
• STALE879d [WIP 1/3] rust: Introduce atomic module
  2024-03-22 · Boqun Feng <hidden>
• STALE1088d [PATCH] locking/atomic: scripts: fix fallback ifdeffery
  2023-09-19 · Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
• STALE2839d Re: Linux-next: Build failed
  2018-12-04 · Will Deacon <hidden>
• STALE2846d [PATCHv3 5/6] atomics: check generated headers are up-to-date
  2018-09-04 · Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
• STALE2846d REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCHv3 1/6] atomics: add common header generation files
  2018-09-04 · Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
• STALE2971d [PATCHv4 11/12] atomics: check generated headers are up-to-date
  2018-07-16 · Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
• STALE2971d REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCHv4 07/12] atomics: add common header generation files
  2018-07-16 · Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
• STALE2982d [PATCHv3 11/12] atomics: check generated headers are up-to-date
  2018-07-05 · Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
• STALE2982d REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCHv3 07/12] atomics: add common header generation files
  2018-07-05 · Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>