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Kernel coverage at LWN.net

LWN.net's coverage of Linux kernel development is detailed, technical, and timely.

The article index

See the LWN Kernel Page index for instant access to all LWN Kernel Page articles, organized by topic.

Special features

From time to time, LWN runs special kernel-oriented features. Some of our more popular offerings include:

Recent LWN.net kernel pages

The Kernel Page, part of the LWN.net Weekly Edition, provides a detailed weekly summary of events, releases, and discussions within the kernel development community. Recent weeks have covered (among other things):

DateContents
Feb 01, 2012 What happened to disk performance in 2.6.39; Preparing for user-space checkpoint/restore; Betrayed by a bitfield.
Jan 25, 2012 /proc/PID/mem; The zsmalloc allocator; XFS: the filesystem of the future?
Jan 18, 2012 3.3 merge window part 2; System call filtering and no_new_privs; The future calculus of memory management
Jan 11, 2012 No more system devices; Seccomp; 3.3 merge window; Rethinking power-aware scheduling; DMA buffer sharing.
Jan 04, 2012 IOPS-based I/O scheduling; SG_IO privilege escalation; VFIO; The logger meets linux-kernel.
Dec 21, 2011 Signed tags; 3.2 statistics; A common clock framework; Bringing Android closer to the mainline.
Dec 14, 2011 Fixing the symlink race problem; LTTng rejection, next generation; Vtunerc and software acceptance politics.
Dec 08, 2011 Per-cgroup TCP buffer limits; Irked by NO_IRQ; Validating Memory Barriers and Atomic Instructions.
Nov 30, 2011 Routing Open vSwitch into the mainline; Hardware face recognition; Improving ext4.
Nov 23, 2011 Drivers as documentation; The pin control subsystem; POSIX_FADV_VOLATILE.

Recent kernel patches

A few of the most recently posted kernel patches are listed below; see the LWN Kernel Patches Page for full access to the patch database.

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