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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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+=====================================
+The Linux kernel user-space API guide
+=====================================
+
+.. _man-pages: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
+
+While much of the kernel's user-space API is documented elsewhere
+(particularly in the man-pages_ project), some user-space information can
+also be found in the kernel tree itself. This manual is intended to be the
+place where this information is gathered.
+
+
+System calls
+============
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ unshare
+ futex2
+ ebpf/index
+ ioctl/index
+ mseal
+ rseq
+
+Security-related interfaces
+===========================
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ no_new_privs
+ seccomp_filter
+ landlock
+ lsm
+ mfd_noexec
+ spec_ctrl
+ tee
+ check_exec
+
+Devices and I/O
+===============
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ accelerators/ocxl
+ dma-buf-heaps
+ dma-buf-alloc-exchange
+ fwctl/index
+ gpio/index
+ iommufd
+ media/index
+ dcdbas
+ vduse
+ isapnp
+
+Everything else
+===============
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ ELF
+ liveupdate
+ netlink/index
+ sysfs-platform_profile
+ vduse
+ futex2
+ perf_ring_buffer
+ ntsync