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 7 patches in this subsystem on workflows, ordered by date desc.

COLD42d [PATCH] nios2: remove the architecture
2026-05-18 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
STALE72d [PATCH v4 1/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
2026-04-29 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
STALE78d [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
2026-04-24 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
STALE80d [PATCH v2 1/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
2026-04-21 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
STALE84d [PATCH] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
2026-04-19 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
STALE306d [PATCH v2 13/13] Documentation: checkpatch: Convert kernel docs references
2025-09-10 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
STALE315d [PATCH 14/14] Documentation: checkpatch: Convert kernel docs references
2025-08-29 · Bagas Sanjaya <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.

STALE78d [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
2026-04-24 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>