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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 |
| Jul 01, 2009 |
Soft updates, hard problems; Perfcounters; The fanotify API. |
| Jun 24, 2009 |
2.6.31 merge window, week 2; PRAMFS; Kernel design patterns - part 3 |
| Jun 17, 2009 |
Merge window, part 1; Chunkfs; Avoiding a read-only filesystem on errors; Kernel design patterns, part 2 |
| Jun 10, 2009 |
Runtime power management; Poke-a-hole and friends; Linux Kernel Design Patterns - Part 1 |
| Jun 03, 2009 |
How many page flags do we really have?; Xen again; Page sanitization, part 2. |
| May 27, 2009 |
Developer statistics for 2.6.30; Compcache; An updated guide to debugfs. |
| May 20, 2009 |
This week's reflink() API; Block layer request queue API changes; Being nicer to executable pages. |
| May 13, 2009 |
Seccomp and sandboxing; TuxOnIce: in from the cold?; Which I/O controller is the fairest of them all? |
| May 06, 2009 |
The return of devfs; Long discussions about long names; The two sides of reflink(). |
| Apr 29, 2009 |
USB and fast booting; On the value of static tracepoints; KSM tries again. |
Recent kernel patches
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