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

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH v19 00/40] DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2026-07-06 06:21 · 3 replies in 7d · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>

Recent patches

Most-recent 16 patches in this subsystem on linux-modules, ordered by date desc.

• WARM1d [PATCH v19 29/40] dept: make dept aware of lockdep_set_lock_cmp_fn() annotation
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v19 24/40] locking/lockdep: prevent various lockdep assertions when lockdep_off()'ed
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v19 04/40] dept: tie to lockdep and IRQ tracing
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• COOLING8d [PATCH v3 5/7] kernel: Use mutable list iterators
  2026-06-22 · Kaitao Cheng <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH v2 2/2] tree-wide: rename do_exit() to task_exit()
  2026-03-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE162d [PATCH RFC v3 13/15] rust: remove module argument from InPlaceModule::init()
  2026-01-10 · Kari Argillander <hidden>
• STALE183d [PATCH RFC v2 09/11] rust: remove module argument from InPlaceModule::init()
  2026-01-06 · Kari Argillander <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v18 29/42] dept: make dept aware of lockdep_set_lock_cmp_fn() annotation
  2025-12-05 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• WARM3d [PATCH v18 24/42] locking/lockdep: prevent various lockdep assertions when lockdep_off()'ed
  2025-12-05 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• WARM3d [PATCH v18 04/42] dept: tie to lockdep and IRQ tracing
  2025-12-05 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE220d Re: [PATCH v17 28/47] dept: add documentation for dept
  2025-10-03 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE220d [PATCH v17 33/47] dept: make dept aware of lockdep_set_lock_cmp_fn() annotation
  2025-10-02 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE220d [PATCH v17 27/47] locking/lockdep: prevent various lockdep assertions when lockdep_off()'ed
  2025-10-02 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE220d [PATCH v17 05/47] dept: tie to lockdep and IRQ tracing
  2025-10-02 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE415d [PATCH 02/12] locking/rtmutex: Move max_lock_depth into rtmutex.c
  2025-05-09 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE1485d [PATCH 4/5] kallsyms: pass buffer size argument in *lookup* APIs
  2022-05-20 · Maninder Singh <hidden>