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

• COLD17d [PATCH] nios2: remove the architecture
  2026-05-18 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• STALE281d [PATCH v2 13/13] Documentation: checkpatch: Convert kernel docs references
  2025-09-10 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE289d [PATCH 14/14] Documentation: checkpatch: Convert kernel docs references
  2025-08-29 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE349d REVIEWED: 35 (35M) [PATCH v13 5/5] rust: remove core::ffi::CStr reexport
  2025-07-01 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE349d REVIEWED: 30 (30M) [PATCH v13 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-07-01 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE349d REVIEWED: 30 (30M) [PATCH v13 3/5] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-07-01 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE353d [PATCH v12 5/5] rust: remove core::ffi::CStr reexport
  2025-06-19 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE353d [PATCH v12 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-06-19 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE353d [PATCH v12 3/5] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-06-19 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE382d [PATCH v11 5/5] rust: remove core::ffi::CStr reexport
  2025-05-30 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE382d [PATCH v11 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-05-30 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE382d [PATCH v11 3/5] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-05-30 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE386d [PATCH v10 5/5] rust: remove core::ffi::CStr reexport
  2025-05-24 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE386d [PATCH v10 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-05-24 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE386d [PATCH v10 3/5] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-05-24 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v9 4/4] rust: remove core::ffi::CStr reexport
  2025-03-17 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE459d [PATCH v9 3/4] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-03-17 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE459d [PATCH v9 2/4] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-03-17 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE550d [PATCH v5 01/16] rust: pass module name to `Module::init`
  2024-12-10 · Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
• STALE555d [PATCH v4 01/13] rust: pass module name to `Module::init`
  2024-12-05 · Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
• STALE751d LANDED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v3 1/4] hwspinlock: Introduce hwspin_lock_bust()
  2024-05-29 · Chris Lew <hidden>
• STALE751d [PATCH v2 1/4] hwspinlock: Introduce hwspin_lock_bust()
  2024-05-25 · Chris Lew <hidden>
• STALE755d [PATCH 3/7] hwspinlock: Introduce hwspin_lock_bust()
  2024-05-16 · Chris Lew <hidden>
• STALE755d [PATCH 2/7] hwspinlock: Enable hwspinlock sharing
  2024-05-16 · Chris Lew <hidden>
• STALE1036d LANDED [PATCH 3/3] Documentation: Fix typos
  2023-08-14 · Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
• STALE2515d [PATCH 1/7] docs: fix broken doc references due to renames
  2019-07-26 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
• STALE2524d [PATCH 03/14] docs: fix broken doc references due to renames
  2019-07-16 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] docs: fix broken doc links due to renames
  2019-07-15 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
• STALE2537d [PATCH v1 01/22] docs: Documentation/*.txt: rename all ReST files to *.rst
  2019-06-18 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
• STALE2613d [PATCH v2 56/79] docs: Documentation/*.txt: rename all ReST files to *.rst
  2019-04-22 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <hidden>