workqueue · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
• R Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst
• F include/linux/workqueue.h
• F kernel/workqueue.c
• F kernel/workqueue_internal.h

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COLD46d [PATCH 5.10 208/699] workqueue: drop spurious * from print_worker_info() fn declaration
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD48d [PATCH 5.15 266/843] workqueue: drop spurious * from print_worker_info() fn declaration
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD48d [PATCH 6.1 0339/1067] workqueue: drop spurious * from print_worker_info() fn declaration
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD41d [PATCH 6.6 0442/1266] workqueue: drop spurious * from print_worker_info() fn declaration
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD27d [PATCH 6.12 0545/1276] workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD27d [PATCH 6.12 0173/1276] workqueue: drop spurious * from print_worker_info() fn declaration
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING13d [PATCH 6.18 0240/1611] workqueue: drop spurious * from print_worker_info() fn declaration
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD48d [PATCH 7.1 0335/2077] workqueue: drop spurious * from print_worker_info() fn declaration
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE109d [PATCH 7.0 1038/1146] workqueue: fix devm_alloc_workqueue() va_list misuse
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE109d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH 7.0 0588/1146] workqueue: devres: Add device-managed allocate workqueue
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD19d [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-6.18] workqueue: Release PENDING in __queue_work() drain/destroy reject path
  2026-05-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE161d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 6.12 029/460] workqueue: Use POOL_BH instead of WQ_BH when checking pool flags
  2026-03-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 6.18 030/333] workqueue: Use POOL_BH instead of WQ_BH when checking pool flags
  2026-03-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE167d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 6.19 032/378] workqueue: Use POOL_BH instead of WQ_BH when checking pool flags
  2026-03-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE154d [PATCH 6.12 081/265] workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq
  2026-03-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE192d [PATCH 6.6 083/283] workqueue: Process rescuer work items one-by-one using a cursor
  2026-02-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE192d [PATCH 6.6 082/283] workqueue: Only assign rescuer work when really needed
  2026-02-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE192d [PATCH 6.6 081/283] workqueue: Factor out assign_rescuer_work()
  2026-02-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE191d [PATCH 6.12 136/385] workqueue: Process rescuer work items one-by-one using a cursor
  2026-02-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE191d [PATCH 6.12 135/385] workqueue: Only assign rescuer work when really needed
  2026-02-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE191d [PATCH 6.12 134/385] workqueue: Factor out assign_rescuer_work()
  2026-02-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE183d [PATCH 6.18 176/641] workqueue: Process rescuer work items one-by-one using a cursor
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE183d [PATCH 6.18 175/641] workqueue: Only assign rescuer work when really needed
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE183d [PATCH 6.18 174/641] workqueue: Factor out assign_rescuer_work()
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE192d [PATCH 6.19 201/781] workqueue: Process rescuer work items one-by-one using a cursor
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE442d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 6.12 370/414] workqueue: Initialize wq_isolated_cpumask in workqueue_init_early()
  2025-06-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE441d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 6.15 528/592] workqueue: Initialize wq_isolated_cpumask in workqueue_init_early()
  2025-06-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE441d [PATCH 6.15 245/592] workqueue: Fix race condition in wq->stats incrementation
  2025-06-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE464d [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 07/66] workqueue: Fix race condition in wq->stats incrementation
  2025-06-01 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE464d [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.12 11/93] workqueue: Fix race condition in wq->stats incrementation
  2025-06-01 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE183d [PATCH 6.18 174/641] workqueue: Factor out assign_rescuer_work()
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE183d [PATCH 6.18 175/641] workqueue: Only assign rescuer work when really needed
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE191d [PATCH 6.12 134/385] workqueue: Factor out assign_rescuer_work()
  2026-02-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE191d [PATCH 6.12 135/385] workqueue: Only assign rescuer work when really needed
  2026-02-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE192d [PATCH 6.6 081/283] workqueue: Factor out assign_rescuer_work()
  2026-02-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE192d [PATCH 6.6 082/283] workqueue: Only assign rescuer work when really needed
  2026-02-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD19d [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-6.18] workqueue: Release PENDING in __queue_work() drain/destroy reject path
  2026-05-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE109d [PATCH 7.0 1038/1146] workqueue: fix devm_alloc_workqueue() va_list misuse
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD48d [PATCH 7.1 0335/2077] workqueue: drop spurious * from print_worker_info() fn declaration
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING13d [PATCH 6.18 0240/1611] workqueue: drop spurious * from print_worker_info() fn declaration
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>