locking primitives

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Latest 30 postings or standalone patches (up to 30), newest first. Counts below cover matching patches in linux-doc touching this subsystem.

• proc: drop the __user methods (Part 7/7) v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RESEND v2 5/6] proc: drop the _buf suffix from the new methods 2026-11-04
  2026-11-04 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• proc: convert the fs, kernel and mm entries (Part 5/7) v2 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 4 of 30 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RESEND v2 12/30] locking/lockdep: let procfs own the seq_file of /proc/lock_stat 2026-11-04
  • [PATCH RESEND v2 13/30] locking/lockdep: let procfs copy in writes to /proc/lock_stat 2026-11-04
  2026-11-04 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• hazptr: shared-scan kthread, drain-assist, and stall detector v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: PENDING · 9 of 28 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 20/28] locking/lockdep: Use hazptr to wait for dynamic key lookups 2026-11-04
  2026-11-04 · Kunwu Chan <hidden>
• proc: drop the __user methods rfc · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RFC 5/5] proc: drop the _buf suffix from the new methods 2026-11-02
  2026-11-02 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• proc: convert the fs, kernel and mm entries rfc · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RFC 12/27] locking/lockdep: let procfs own the seq_file of /proc/lock_stat 2026-11-02
  • [PATCH RFC 13/27] locking/lockdep: let procfs copy in writes to /proc/lock_stat 2026-11-02
  2026-11-02 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• entry: Classify very early hardirq entry and return-tail callbacks v2 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 1 of 13 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC PATCH v2 04/13] lockdep: Use raw access for pinned hardirq state 2026-10-28
  • [RFC PATCH v2 08/13] lockdep: Prepare IRQ-on state from a hardirq return tail 2026-10-28
  2026-10-28 · Karl Mehltretter <hidden>
• [PATCH RFC 1/2] kcov: collect early boot coverage of init_task 2026-10-27 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• entry, tracing: Classify early hardirq entry and return tails rfc · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC PATCH 02/12] lockdep: Use raw access for pinned hardirq state 2026-10-22
  • [RFC PATCH 06/12] lockdep: Prepare IRQ-on state from a hardirq return tail 2026-10-22
  2026-10-22 · Karl Mehltretter <hidden>
• LANDED: 3 reviews, 3 by maintainers [PATCH v2] rust: workqueue: replace deprecated system_wq with system_{percpu,dfl}_wq 2026-10-14 · Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
• REVIEWED: 1 review, 1 by a maintainer [PATCH] rust: workqueue: replace deprecated system_wq with system_{percpu,dfl}_wq 2026-10-13 · Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
• hazptr: batch synchronize operations through a shared scan v3 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RFC v3 08/15] locking/lockdep: use hazptr to wait for dynamic key lookups 2026-10-05
  2026-10-05 · Kunwu Chan <hidden>
• locking, mm: Add atomic allocator trylocks on RT v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] locking/rtmutex: Support atomic PREEMPT_RT spin trylocks 2026-10-05
  2026-10-05 · Karl Mehltretter <hidden>
• hazptr: batch synchronize operations through a shared scan v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RFC v2 08/15] locking/lockdep: use hazptr to wait for dynamic key lookups 2026-10-02
  2026-10-02 · Kunwu Chan <hidden>
• hazptr: add shared scan path and lockdep use case rfc · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC/WIP PATCH 2/4] locking/lockdep: use hazptr to wait for dynamic key lookups 2026-09-22
  2026-09-22 · Kunwu Chan <hidden>
• DEPT(DEPendency Tracker) v19 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 2 of 40 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v19 04/40] dept: tie to lockdep and IRQ tracing 2026-07-06
  • [PATCH v19 24/40] locking/lockdep: prevent various lockdep assertions when lockdep_off()'ed 2026-07-06
  • [PATCH v19 29/40] dept: make dept aware of lockdep_set_lock_cmp_fn() annotation 2026-07-06
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• Introduce Per-CPU Work helpers (was QPW) v4 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v4 1/4] Introducing pw_lock() and per-cpu queue & flush work 2026-05-19
  2026-05-19 · Leonardo Bras <hidden>
• [PATCH] nios2: remove the architecture 2026-05-18 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family v4 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: LANDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v4 1/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family 2026-04-29
  2026-04-29 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family v3 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family 2026-04-24
  2026-04-24 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 1/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family 2026-04-21
  2026-04-21 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• [PATCH] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family 2026-04-19 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• [PATCH v2] Documentation: locking: Document hwspinlock bust() callback 2026-03-23 · Antonio Borneo <antonio.borneo@foss.st.com>
• hwspinlock: move device alloc into core and refactor includes v5 · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 5 of 15 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v5 04/15] hwspinlock: add callback to fill private data of a hwspinlock 2026-03-19
  • [PATCH v5 10/15] hwspinlock: handle hwspinlock device allocation in the core 2026-03-19
  • [PATCH v5 15/15] hwspinlock/treewide: refactor consumer.h from public header 2026-03-19
  2026-03-19 · Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
• [PATCH] Documentation: locking: Document hwspinlock bust() callback 2026-03-14 · Antonio Borneo <antonio.borneo@foss.st.com>
• kthread, exit: clean up kernel thread exit paths v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 2/2] tree-wide: rename do_exit() to task_exit() 2026-03-10
  2026-03-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• hwspinlock: move device alloc into core and refactor includes v4 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v4 15/15] hwspinlock/treewide: refactor consumer.h from public header 2026-03-10
  2026-03-10 · Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
• hwspinlock: move device alloc into core and refactor includes v3 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 15/15] hwspinlock/treewide: refactor consumer.h from public header 2026-03-03
  2026-03-03 · Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
• hwspinlock: move device alloc into core and refactor includes v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC PATCH v2 13/13] hwspinlock: refactor consumer.h from public header 2026-02-15
  2026-02-15 · Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
• hwspinlock: refactor headers into public provider/consumer pair rfc · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC PATCH 2/4] hwspinlock: refactor existing headers into consumer.h 2026-01-25
  2026-01-25 · Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
• LANDED [PATCH] Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplate 2026-01-23 · Jani Nikula <hidden>