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

• COLD52d Re: Linux 7.0.10
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.33
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD47d Re: Linux 6.12.91
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.141
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD53d [PATCH 7.0 1038/1146] workqueue: fix devm_alloc_workqueue() va_list misuse
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD53d REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH 7.0 0588/1146] workqueue: devres: Add device-managed allocate workqueue
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING13d [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-6.18] workqueue: Release PENDING in __queue_work() drain/destroy reject path
  2026-05-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.19.13
  2026-04-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE88d Re: Linux 6.18.23
  2026-04-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.82
  2026-04-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies FAILED: patch "[PATCH] workqueue: Fix false positive stall reports" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
  2026-04-07 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies FAILED: patch "[PATCH] workqueue: Fix false positive stall reports" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree
  2026-04-07 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies FAILED: patch "[PATCH] workqueue: Fix false positive stall reports" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree
  2026-04-07 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies FAILED: patch "[PATCH] workqueue: Fix false positive stall reports" failed to apply to 6.19-stable tree
  2026-04-07 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies FAILED: patch "[PATCH] workqueue: Fix false positive stall reports" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree
  2026-04-07 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies FAILED: patch "[PATCH] workqueue: Fix false positive stall reports" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree
  2026-04-07 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies FAILED: patch "[PATCH] workqueue: Fix false positive stall reports" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree
  2026-04-07 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE104d Re: [PATCH v2] workqueue: Add pool_workqueue to pending_pwqs list when unplugging multiple inactive works
  2026-04-01 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE104d [PATCH v2] workqueue: Add pool_workqueue to pending_pwqs list when unplugging multiple inactive works
  2026-04-01 · Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
• STALE105d [PATCH] workqueue: Add pool_workqueue to pending_pwqs list when unplugging multiple inactive works
  2026-03-31 · Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
• STALE111d Re: Linux 6.12.78
  2026-03-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE105d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 6.12 029/460] workqueue: Use POOL_BH instead of WQ_BH when checking pool flags
  2026-03-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.19.9
  2026-03-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE105d Re: Linux 6.18.19
  2026-03-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE118d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 6.18 030/333] workqueue: Use POOL_BH instead of WQ_BH when checking pool flags
  2026-03-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE111d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 6.19 032/378] workqueue: Use POOL_BH instead of WQ_BH when checking pool flags
  2026-03-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.77
  2026-03-13 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE98d [PATCH 6.12 081/265] workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq
  2026-03-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.128
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE90d Re: Linux 6.12.75
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.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.

• STALE127d [PATCH 6.18 174/641] workqueue: Factor out assign_rescuer_work()
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE127d [PATCH 6.18 175/641] workqueue: Only assign rescuer work when really needed
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.14
  2026-02-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE137d Re: Linux 6.19.4
  2026-02-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.128
  2026-03-04 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.77
  2026-03-13 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE105d Re: Linux 6.18.19
  2026-03-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.19.9
  2026-03-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE111d Re: Linux 6.12.78
  2026-03-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies FAILED: patch "[PATCH] workqueue: Fix false positive stall reports" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree
  2026-04-07 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>