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Special features
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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 |
|---|
| Feb 03, 2010 |
Improving readahead; The x86_64 DOS hole; Lockdep-RCU |
| Jan 27, 2010 |
fincore(); Graphics drivers; Back to the drawing board for utrace?; Replacing ptrace(). |
| Jan 20, 2010 |
LCA: Why filesystems are hard; Uprobes: not quite there yet; Secrets of the Ftrace function tracer |
| Jan 13, 2010 |
sys_membarrier(); FBAC-LSM; Speculating on page faults. |
| Jan 06, 2010 |
Restricting the network; Memory compaction; RCU strings. |
| Dec 23, 2009 |
Two that didn't make it; Writing an ACPI driver - an introduction; Debugging the kernel using Ftrace - part 2. |
| Dec 16, 2009 |
2.6.33 merge window part 2; Redesigning asynchronous suspend/resume; The abrupt merging of Nouveau. |
| Dec 09, 2009 |
2.6.33 merge window part 1; Minimizing instrumentation impacts; Debugging the kernel using Ftrace - part 1 |
| Dec 02, 2009 |
Utrace; Eliminating rwlocks and IRQF_DISABLED; Kernel support for infrared receivers. |
| Nov 25, 2009 |
Who wrote 2.6.32; Journal-guided RAID resync; Videobuf. |
Recent kernel patches
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