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 13 patches in this subsystem on linux-arm-msm, ordered by date desc.

• STALE122d REVIEWED: 58 (58M) [PATCH v5 15/15] hwspinlock/treewide: refactor consumer.h from public header
  2026-03-19 · Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
• STALE122d [PATCH v5 10/15] hwspinlock: handle hwspinlock device allocation in the core
  2026-03-19 · Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
• STALE122d [PATCH v5 04/15] hwspinlock: add callback to fill private data of a hwspinlock
  2026-03-19 · Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
• STALE131d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v4 15/15] hwspinlock/treewide: refactor consumer.h from public header
  2026-03-10 · Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
• STALE136d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v3 15/15] hwspinlock/treewide: refactor consumer.h from public header
  2026-03-03 · Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
• STALE158d [RFC PATCH v2 13/13] hwspinlock: refactor consumer.h from public header
  2026-02-15 · Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
• STALE788d LANDED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v3 1/4] hwspinlock: Introduce hwspin_lock_bust()
  2024-05-29 · Chris Lew <hidden>
• STALE789d [PATCH v2 1/4] hwspinlock: Introduce hwspin_lock_bust()
  2024-05-25 · Chris Lew <hidden>
• STALE792d [PATCH 3/7] hwspinlock: Introduce hwspin_lock_bust()
  2024-05-16 · Chris Lew <hidden>
• STALE792d [PATCH 2/7] hwspinlock: Enable hwspinlock sharing
  2024-05-16 · Chris Lew <hidden>
• STALE935d Re: [PATCH] kernel: Introduce a write lock/unlock wrapper for tasklist_lock
  2023-12-28 · Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE1757d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 17/17] doc: drm: remove TODO entry regarding DRM_MODSET_LOCK_ALL cleanup
  2021-09-24 · Fernando Ramos <hidden>
• STALE1770d [PATCH 15/15] doc: drm: remove TODO entry regarding DRM_MODSET_LOCK_ALL cleanup
  2021-09-16 · Fernando Ramos <hidden>