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 8 patches in this subsystem on linux-gpio, ordered by date desc.

• STALE90d REVIEWED: 57 (57M) [PATCH v5 15/15] hwspinlock/treewide: refactor consumer.h from public header
  2026-03-19 · Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
• STALE99d 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>
• STALE105d 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>
• STALE126d [RFC PATCH v2 13/13] hwspinlock: refactor consumer.h from public header
  2026-02-15 · Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
• STALE2543d [PATCH v1 01/22] docs: Documentation/*.txt: rename all ReST files to *.rst
  2019-06-18 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
• STALE2543d [PATCH v1 12/22] docs: driver-api: add .rst files from the main dir
  2019-06-18 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
• STALE2619d [PATCH v2 56/79] docs: Documentation/*.txt: rename all ReST files to *.rst
  2019-04-22 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <hidden>
• STALE2845d [PATCH] [RFC v2] Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/
  2018-09-03 · Henrik Austad <hidden>