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 llvm (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• STALE82d Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] locking: Add/convert context analysis bits
  2026-01-21 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE130d [PATCH tip/locking/core 6/6] compiler-context-analysis: Remove __assume_ctx_lock from initializers
  2026-01-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE130d [PATCH tip/locking/core 2/6] compiler-context-analysis: Introduce scoped init guards
  2026-01-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE137d Re: [PATCH tip/locking/core] compiler-context-analysis: Support immediate acquisition after initialization
  2026-01-16 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE137d [PATCH tip/locking/core] compiler-context-analysis: Support immediate acquisition after initialization
  2026-01-15 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE132d Re: [PATCH v5 10/36] locking/mutex: Support Clang's context analysis
  2026-01-10 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE132d [PATCH v5 11/36] locking/seqlock: Support Clang's context analysis
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE170d Re: [PATCH v4 06/35] cleanup: Basic compatibility with context analysis
  2025-12-15 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE170d [PATCH v4 11/35] locking/seqlock: Support Clang's context analysis
  2025-11-20 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE229d REVIEWED: 46 (46M) [RESEND PATCH v18 16/16] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-10-18 · Tamir Duberstein <tamird@kernel.org>
• STALE229d REVIEWED: 46 (46M) [PATCH v18 16/16] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-10-18 · Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
• STALE231d REVIEWED: 46 (46M) [PATCH v17 11/11] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-10-15 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE252d Re: [RFC PATCH] rust: sync: Add dma_fence abstractions
  2025-09-26 · Boqun Feng <hidden>
• STALE255d REVIEWED: 46 (46M) [PATCH v16 3/3] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-09-25 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE206d [PATCH v3 11/35] locking/seqlock: Support Clang's capability analysis
  2025-09-18 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE252d [RFC PATCH] rust: sync: Add dma_fence abstractions
  2025-09-18 · Philipp Stanner <phasta@kernel.org>
• STALE258d REVIEWED: 46 (46M) [PATCH v15 4/4] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-08-13 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE299d REVIEWED: 29 (29M) [PATCH v14 3/3] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-07-10 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE338d REVIEWED: 34 (34M) [PATCH v13 5/5] rust: remove core::ffi::CStr reexport
  2025-07-01 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE338d REVIEWED: 29 (29M) [PATCH v13 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-07-01 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE338d REVIEWED: 29 (29M) [PATCH v13 3/5] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-07-01 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE341d [PATCH v12 5/5] rust: remove core::ffi::CStr reexport
  2025-06-19 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE341d [PATCH v12 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-06-19 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE341d [PATCH v12 3/5] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-06-19 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE323d LANDED [PATCH] lockdep: avoid struct return in lock_stats()
  2025-06-10 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE371d [PATCH v11 5/5] rust: remove core::ffi::CStr reexport
  2025-05-30 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE371d [PATCH v11 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-05-30 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE371d [PATCH v11 3/5] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
  2025-05-30 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE374d [PATCH v10 5/5] rust: remove core::ffi::CStr reexport
  2025-05-24 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE374d [PATCH v10 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-05-24 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>

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.

• STALE170d [PATCH v4 11/35] locking/seqlock: Support Clang's context analysis
  2025-11-20 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE82d Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] locking: Add/convert context analysis bits
  2026-01-21 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>