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-rt-users (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• DORMANTno replies [ANNOUNCE] 6.6.129-rt70
  2026-03-06 · Clark Williams <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [ANNOUNCE] v6.17.1-rt5
  2025-10-09 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• DORMANTno replies [ANNOUNCE] v6.17-rc4-rt3
  2025-09-03 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE1229d [PATCH 4.19-rt] workqueue: Fix deadlock due to recursive locking of pool->lock
  2023-02-28 · Brennan Lamoreaux (VMware) <hidden>
• STALE1231d Re: Kernel lock during cryptsetup luksClose
  2023-02-28 · Frédéric Martinsons <hidden>
• STALE1362d [PATCH RT 8/9] workqueue: Use rcuwait for wq_manager_wait
  2022-10-24 · Daniel Wagner <hidden>
• STALE1362d [PATCH RT 4/9] Revert "workqueue: Use local irq lock instead of irq disable regions"
  2022-10-24 · Daniel Wagner <hidden>
• STALE1424d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 9/9] workqueue: Convert the pool::lock and wq_mayday_lock to raw_spinlock_t
  2022-08-19 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE1424d [PATCH 8/9] workqueue: Use rcuwait for wq_manager_wait
  2022-08-19 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE1424d [PATCH 4/9] Revert "workqueue: Prevent deadlock/stall on RT"
  2022-08-19 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE1424d [PATCH 3/9] Revert "workqueue: Use local irq lock instead of irq disable regions"
  2022-08-19 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE1573d [RFC PATCH 2/2] workqueue: update sysfs handlers, allow setting RT policies
  2022-03-23 · Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
• STALE1573d [RFC PATCH 1/2] workqueue: allow use of realtime scheduling policies
  2022-03-23 · Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
• DORMANTno replies [ANNOUNCE] v5.15-rc6-rt12
  2021-10-18 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE2093d Re: 5.10-rt: non-repeatable flush_delayed_work()...del_timer_wait_running() ATOMIC_SLEEP splat
  2020-11-02 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE2114d [ANNOUNCE] v5.9-rc8-rt14
  2020-10-09 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• DORMANTno replies [ANNOUNCE] 5.4.54-rt33
  2020-08-14 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE2173d [PATCH RT 2/6] workqueue: Sync with upstream
  2020-08-13 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• DORMANTno replies [ANNOUNCE] v5.6.17-rt9
  2020-06-10 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• DORMANTno replies [ANNOUNCE] 4.19.72-rt26
  2019-10-14 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE2501d [RFC][PATCH RT 7/7] workqueue: rework
  2019-09-20 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE3149d [ANNOUNCE] 4.1.46-rt52
  2017-11-29 · Julia Cartwright <hidden>
• STALE3181d [PATCH RT 2/4] workqueue: fixup rcu check for RT
  2017-11-10 · Julia Cartwright <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [ANNOUNCE] 4.1.42-rt50
  2017-08-28 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• DORMANTno replies [ANNOUNCE] 3.10.104-rt118
  2017-02-13 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• DORMANTno replies [ANNOUNCE] 3.12.70-rt94
  2017-02-13 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• DORMANTno replies [ANNOUNCE] 3.18.47-rt52
  2017-02-13 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• DORMANTno replies [ANNOUNCE] 4.1.38-rt45
  2017-02-13 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• DORMANTno replies [ANNOUNCE] 4.4.47-rt59
  2017-02-13 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH RT 1/2] workqueue: use rcu_readlock() in put_pwq_unlocked()
  2017-02-09 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.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.

• DORMANTno replies [ANNOUNCE] 6.6.129-rt70
  2026-03-06 · Clark Williams <hidden>