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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:
- the Video4Linux2 API, an ongoing
series of articles on how to write video drivers for Linux.
- 2007 Kernel Summit coverage.
- 2006 Kernel Summit coverage.
- 2.6 API changes. A
regularly-updated summary of changes to the internal kernel API.
- What every programmer should know about memory: a detailed series of articles by Ulrich Drepper.
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):
| Date | Contents |
|---|---|
| May 07, 2008 | The last things through the 2.6.26 merge window; Time to slow down?; Read-only bind mounts. |
| Apr 30, 2008 | The 2.6.26 merge window, part 2; Restricting root with per-process securebits; Ksplice. |
| Apr 23, 2008 | The 2.6.26 merge window opens; 4K stacks by default?; ELC: Morton and Saxena on working with the kernel community; Dyntick and preemptable RCU. |
| Apr 16, 2008 | TOMOYO Linux and pathname-based security; e1000 v. e1000e; OMFS and the value of obscure filesystems; Bisection. |
| Apr 09, 2008 | Memory allocation failures and scary warnings; Improving syncookies; vringfd() |
| Apr 02, 2008 | Toward better direct I/O scalability; UBIFS; Where 2.6.25 came from. |
| Mar 26, 2008 | Kernel markers and binary-only modules; Predictive ELF bitmaps; Atomic context and kernel API design. |
| Mar 19, 2008 | Generic semaphores; The return of authoritative hooks; A new suspend/hibernate infrastructure. |
| Mar 12, 2008 | A better DMA memory allocator; How to use a terabyte of RAM; GCC 4.3.0 exposes a kernel bug. |
| Mar 05, 2008 | Realtime adaptive locks; An object debugging infrastructure; The rest of the vmsplice() exploit story. |
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.
- Darrick J. Wong: [PATCH v3] ibmaem: New driver for power/energy/temp meters in IBM System X hardware. (May 13, 2008)
- Huang, Ying: [PATCH] kexec based hibernation: a prototype of kexec multi-stage load. (May 13, 2008)
- Christoph Lameter: Slab Fragmentation Reduction V12. (May 13, 2008)
- Suresh Siddha: x86: xsave/xrstor support, ucontext_t extensions. (May 13, 2008)
- Gregory Haskins: sched: core balancer. (May 13, 2008)
- KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki: memcg: better migration handling. (May 13, 2008)
- Alex Tsariounov: Cpuset management utility 0.9.1 release announcement. (May 13, 2008)
- Ross Biro: MM: Make Page Tables Relocatable -- Conditional Flush. (May 13, 2008)
- Kay Sievers: udev 121 release. (May 13, 2008)
- Miklos Szeredi: file locking fixes + fuse nfs export support. (May 13, 2008)