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:

• 2014 Kernel Summit coverage.

• Control groups, an extended series on the history, design, and future of control groups by Neil Brown.

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
Aug 31, 2016	Inside the mind of a Coccinelle programmer; Atomic patterns.
Aug 24, 2016	Restartable sequences; Btrfs; Network filtering for control groups; MMIO operations.
Aug 17, 2016	The stalled CPU controller; Filesystem mounts in user namespaces; Bus1.
Aug 10, 2016	The 4.8 merge window closes; Android privilege escalations; The NET policy mechanism.
Aug 03, 2016	4.8 Merge window part 2; Hardened usercopy; 4.7 Development statistics.
Jul 27, 2016	The 4.8 merge window opens; Atomic primitives; Memory protection keys pushback.
Jul 20, 2016	Cache access control; LTSI and Fuego; Coding-style exceptionalism.
Jul 13, 2016	Sphinx kernel-doc, part 2: how it works; Tracking resources and capabilities used; USB charging, part 2: implementation.
Jul 07, 2016	USB charging, part 1: requirements; Kernel documentation with Sphinx, part 1: how we got here.
Jun 29, 2016	Virtually mapped kernel stacks again; Parallel pathname lookups; -stable regressions.

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.

• David Lechner: leds: Introduce userspace leds driver . (September 6, 2016)

• Thiago Jung Bauermann: kexec_file_load implementation for PowerPC . (September 6, 2016)

• Peter Zijlstra: perpcu rwsem, fs/locks and killing lglocks . (September 6, 2016)

• Juri Lelli: CPUs capacity information for heterogeneous systems . (September 6, 2016)

• Dmitry Safonov: x86: 32-bit compatible C/R on x86_64 . (September 6, 2016)

• Peter Griffin: Add support for FDMA DMA controller and slim core rproc found on STi chipsets . (September 6, 2016)

• Punit Agrawal: Add support for monitoring guest TLB operations . (September 6, 2016)

• Peter Zijlstra: locking/mutex: Rewrite basic mutex . (September 6, 2016)

• Chunfeng Yun: Add MediaTek USB3 DRD Driver . (September 6, 2016)

• HS Liao: Mediatek MT8173 CMDQ support . (September 6, 2016)