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

• STALE517d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-10 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE536d [PATCH] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-09 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE1103d [PATCH 09/11] sysctl: Remove the end element in sysctl table arrays
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>
• STALE2330d [PATCH 02/12] locking/rwsem: Exit early when held by an anonymous owner
  2020-01-14 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2414d [PATCH 27/28] rwsem: introduce down/up_write_non_owner
  2019-10-31 · Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
• STALE375d Re: [QUESTION] Long read latencies on mixed rw buffered IO
  2019-03-25 · Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
• STALE3169d [PATCH v5 6/9] locking/lockdep: Introduce CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE_FULLSTACK
  2017-10-25 · Byungchul Park <hidden>
• STALE3169d [PATCH v5 4/9] locking/lockdep: Add a boot parameter allowing unwind in cross-release and disable it by default
  2017-10-25 · Byungchul Park <hidden>
• STALE3170d [PATCH v4 4/7] locking/lockdep: Introduce CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE_FULLSTACK
  2017-10-25 · Byungchul Park <hidden>
• STALE3170d [PATCH v4 2/7] locking/lockdep: Add a boot parameter allowing unwind in cross-release and disable it by default
  2017-10-25 · Byungchul Park <hidden>
• STALE3170d [PATCH v3 4/8] lockdep: Add a kernel parameter, crossrelease_fullstack
  2017-10-24 · Byungchul Park <hidden>
• STALE3170d [PATCH v3 2/8] lockdep: Introduce CROSSRELEASE_STACK_TRACE and make it not unwind as default
  2017-10-24 · Byungchul Park <hidden>
• STALE3400d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 4/7] mm: introduce memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} API
  2017-03-06 · Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
• STALE3400d REVIEWED: 18 (17M) [PATCH 2/7] lockdep: allow to disable reclaim lockup detection
  2017-03-06 · Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
• STALE3400d REVIEWED: 18 (17M) [PATCH 1/7] lockdep: teach lockdep about memalloc_noio_save
  2017-03-06 · Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
• STALE3430d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 3/6] mm: introduce memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} API
  2017-02-06 · Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
• STALE3430d REVIEWED: 18 (17M) [PATCH 1/6] lockdep: allow to disable reclaim lockup detection
  2017-02-06 · Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
• STALE3403d [PATCH 3/8] mm: introduce memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} API
  2017-01-06 · Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
• STALE3403d REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCH 1/8] lockdep: allow to disable reclaim lockup detection
  2017-01-06 · Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
• STALE3477d [PATCH 4/9] mm: introduce memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} API
  2016-12-15 · Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
• STALE3477d REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCH 1/9] lockdep: allow to disable reclaim lockup detection
  2016-12-15 · Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
• STALE3500d [PATCH 1/5] locking/lockdep: Provide a type check for lock_is_held
  2016-11-29 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE3502d [PATCH 1/5] locking/lockdep: Provide a type check for lock_is_held
  2016-11-13 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE3521d [PATCH 1/5] locking/lockdep: Provide a type check for lock_is_held
  2016-11-04 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE3534d [PATCH 1/6] locking/lockdep: Provide a type check for lock_is_held
  2016-10-25 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/2] locking/lockdep: Provide a type check for lock_is_held
  2016-10-21 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE3577d Re: [PATCH, RFC] xfs: remove i_iolock and use i_rwsem in the VFS inode instead
  2016-09-05 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE3577d Re: [PATCH, RFC] xfs: remove i_iolock and use i_rwsem in the VFS inode instead
  2016-08-18 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE3577d Re: [PATCH, RFC] xfs: remove i_iolock and use i_rwsem in the VFS inode instead
  2016-08-11 · Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
• STALE3667d [RFC PATCH-tip 2/6] locking/rwsem: Enable optional count-based spinning on reader
  2016-06-14 · Waiman Long <hidden>