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 linuxppc-dev (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• STALE532d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH v2] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-10 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE550d [PATCH] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-09 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• STALE715d [PATCH 5/5] locking/ww_mutex/test: add MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
  2024-07-30 · Jeff Johnson <hidden>
• STALE853d [PATCH v6 1/9] locking/mutex: introduce devm_mutex_init
  2024-03-14 · George Stark <hidden>
• STALE854d Re: [PATCH v5 02/10] locking/mutex: introduce devm_mutex_init
  2024-03-12 · George Stark <hidden>
• STALE854d Re: [PATCH v5 02/10] locking/mutex: introduce devm_mutex_init
  2024-03-12 · George Stark <hidden>
• STALE854d Re: [PATCH v5 02/10] locking/mutex: introduce devm_mutex_init
  2024-03-11 · George Stark <hidden>
• STALE854d [PATCH v5 02/10] locking/mutex: introduce devm_mutex_init
  2024-03-07 · George Stark <hidden>
• STALE873d [PATCH RFC v4-bis] locking: introduce devm_mutex_init
  2023-12-15 · Christophe Leroy <hidden>
• STALE873d [PATCH v4 02/10] locking: introduce devm_mutex_init
  2023-12-14 · George Stark <hidden>
• STALE950d Re: [PATCH v2 01/10] devm-helpers: introduce devm_mutex_init
  2023-12-07 · George Stark <hidden>
• STALE1118d [PATCH 09/11] sysctl: Remove the end element in sysctl table arrays
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>
• STALE1119d [PATCH 06/14] locking: add lockevent_read() prototype
  2023-05-17 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1335d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v3 1/3] treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  2022-11-17 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1335d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v2 1/3] treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  2022-11-14 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1337d [PATCH v1 1/5] treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  2022-10-22 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1367d REVIEWED: 28 (27M) [PATCH v6 1/7] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1
  2022-10-10 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1375d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v5 1/7] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1
  2022-10-08 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1375d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v4 1/6] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, mechanically
  2022-10-07 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1375d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v3 1/5] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1413d LANDED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v4 10/14] locking/percpu-rwsem: Add percpu_is_write_locked() and percpu_is_read_locked()
  2022-08-29 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE1416d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 10/14] locking/percpu-rwsem: Add percpu_is_write_locked() and percpu_is_read_locked()
  2022-07-04 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE1475d [PATCH v2 09/13] locking/percpu-rwsem: Add percpu_is_write_locked() and percpu_is_read_locked()
  2022-06-28 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE1491d [PATCH 4/5] kallsyms: pass buffer size argument in *lookup* APIs
  2022-05-20 · Maninder Singh <hidden>
• STALE1719d Re: [PATCH] locking: remove spin_lock_flags() etc
  2021-10-25 · Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
• STALE1719d LANDED [PATCH] locking: remove spin_lock_flags() etc
  2021-10-22 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1712d [PATCH v3 2/4] mm: Make generic arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed() do what it says
  2021-09-30 · Christophe Leroy <hidden>
• STALE1745d [PATCH v4 01/11] kallsyms: Remove arch specific text and data check
  2021-09-30 · Kefeng Wang <hidden>
• STALE1750d [PATCH v3 1/9] kallsyms: Remove arch specific text and data check
  2021-09-26 · Kefeng Wang <hidden>
• STALE1812d [PATCH v2 1/7] kallsyms: Remove arch specific text and data check
  2021-07-28 · Kefeng Wang <hidden>