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 26 patches in this subsystem on linux-pci, ordered by date desc.

• COLD42d [PATCH] nios2: remove the architecture
  2026-05-18 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• STALE265d REVIEWED: 47 (47M) [RESEND PATCH v18 16/16] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-10-18 · Tamir Duberstein <tamird@kernel.org>
• STALE265d REVIEWED: 47 (47M) [PATCH v18 16/16] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-10-18 · Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
• STALE266d REVIEWED: 47 (47M) [PATCH v17 11/11] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-10-15 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE374d REVIEWED: 35 (35M) [PATCH v13 5/5] rust: remove core::ffi::CStr reexport
  2025-07-01 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE374d REVIEWED: 30 (30M) [PATCH v13 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-07-01 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE374d REVIEWED: 30 (30M) [PATCH v13 3/5] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-07-01 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE377d [PATCH v12 5/5] rust: remove core::ffi::CStr reexport
  2025-06-19 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE377d [PATCH v12 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-06-19 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE377d [PATCH v12 3/5] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-06-19 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE406d [PATCH v11 5/5] rust: remove core::ffi::CStr reexport
  2025-05-30 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE406d [PATCH v11 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-05-30 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE406d [PATCH v11 3/5] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-05-30 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE410d [PATCH v10 5/5] rust: remove core::ffi::CStr reexport
  2025-05-24 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE410d [PATCH v10 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-05-24 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE410d [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>
• STALE483d [PATCH v9 3/4] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-03-17 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE483d [PATCH v9 2/4] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-03-17 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE553d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 09/11] rust: helpers: Remove some spinlock helpers
  2025-01-07 · Alistair Francis <hidden>
• STALE575d [PATCH v5 01/16] rust: pass module name to `Module::init`
  2024-12-10 · Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
• STALE579d [PATCH v4 01/13] rust: pass module name to `Module::init`
  2024-12-05 · Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
• STALE1151d [PATCH 12/20] x86: qspinlock-paravirt: fix mising-prototype warnings
  2023-05-16 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE2298d Re: [patch V3 13/20] Documentation: Add lock ordering and nesting documentation
  2020-03-25 · "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
• STALE2561d [PATCH v1 12/22] docs: driver-api: add .rst files from the main dir
  2019-06-18 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
• STALE3209d [PATCH 4/4] lockdep: make MAX_LOCK_DEPTH configurable from Kconfig
  2017-09-27 · Govindarajulu Varadarajan <hidden>