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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-09-20 08:15:23 -0700
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Merge tag 'locking-urgent-2026-09-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipgrafted
Pull futex fix from Ingo Molnar: - Also allocate a default private futex hash on vfork() as well, to avoid races with (private) futex waiters (Peter Zijlstra) * tag 'locking-urgent-2026-09-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: futex: Also allocate private hash on vfork()
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+What: /dev/gpiochip[0-9]+
+Date: November 2015
+KernelVersion: 4.4
+Contact: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
+Description:
+ The character device files /dev/gpiochip* are the interface
+ between GPIO chips and userspace.
+
+ The ioctl(2)-based ABI is defined in
+ [include/uapi]<linux/gpio.h> and documented in
+ Documentation/userspace-api/gpio/chardev.rst.
+
+ The following file operations are supported:
+
+ open(2)
+ Currently the only useful flags are O_RDWR.
+
+ ioctl(2)
+ Initiate various actions.
+
+ See Documentation/userspace-api/gpio/chardev.rst
+ for a description of all ioctls.
+
+ close(2)
+ Stops and free up the I/O contexts that was associated
+ with the file descriptor.
+
+Users: TBD