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Special features
From time to time, LWN runs special kernel-oriented features. Some of our
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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 |
|---|
| May 15, 2013 |
copy_range(); 3.10 merge window conclusion; Smarter shrinkers; User-space page fault handling. |
| May 08, 2013 |
What's coming in 3.10, part 2; Full tickless; LLVMLinux. |
| May 01, 2013 |
What's coming in 3.10, part 1; Wait/wound mutexes; LSFMM coverage complete. |
| Apr 25, 2013 |
Narrow bitmasks; Nonvolatile memory devices; LSFMM Summit 2013. |
| Apr 17, 2013 |
3.9 Development statistics; Memory power management. |
| Apr 10, 2013 |
Retrying revoke(); Randomizing the kernel; Toward a more power-efficient scheduler. |
| Apr 03, 2013 |
Per-process reclaim; A VFS deadlock post-mortem; In-kernel memory compression. |
| Mar 27, 2013 |
Breaking GlusterFS; Widening ext4's readdir() cookie; Multipath TCP. |
| Mar 20, 2013 |
The trouble with DMA masks; Anatomy of a user namespaces vulnerability. |
| Mar 13, 2013 |
SO_REUSEPORT; The trouble with CAP_SYS_RAWIO; Android upstreaming. |
Recent kernel patches
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