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:

• 2011 Kernel Summit coverage.

• Huge pages, an extended series on large page support by VM hacker Mel Gorman.

• Linux kernel design patterns and Object-oriented design patterns in the kernel 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
Oct 02, 2013	Transactional memory in the dentry cache; How much memory power management is useful?; NUMA scheduling.
Sep 25, 2013	Split PMD locks; A perf ABI fix.
Sep 18, 2013	The 3.12 merge window closes; Random number generation; Copy offload with splice().
Sep 11, 2013	3.12 merge window, part 2; Security bug handling; BSD-style securelevel.
Sep 05, 2013	3.12 merge window; Lockrefs; Integrating the ION memory allocator.
Aug 28, 2013	flink() flunks; TSO sizing and the FQ scheduler; Device namespaces; Cramming more into struct page.
Aug 21, 2013	Deferring mtime and ctime updates; Some numbers from the 3.11 development cycle; The return of nftables.
Aug 14, 2013	Pondering 2038; KPortReserve and the multi-LSM problem; Optimizing preemption.
Aug 07, 2013	A survey of memory management patches; Unreviewed code in 3.11.
Jul 31, 2013	I/O Hook; Transparent decompression for ext4; Device trees as ABI.

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.

• Linus Torvalds: Linux 3.12-rc4 . (October 6, 2013)

• Greg KH: Linux 3.0.99 . (October 5, 2013)

• Greg KH: Linux 3.4.65 . (October 5, 2013)

• Greg KH: Linux 3.10.15 . (October 5, 2013)

• Greg KH: Linux 3.11.4 . (October 5, 2013)

• Janani Venkataraman: [RFC] [PATCH 00/19] Non disruptive application core dump infrastructure using task_work_add() . (October 5, 2013)

• Sherman Yin: Add Broadcom Capri pinctrl driver . (October 5, 2013)

• Zi Shen Lim: ARM: lockless get_user_pages_fast() . (October 5, 2013)

• Stanimir Varbanov: Add support for Qualcomm's PRNG . (October 5, 2013)

• Luis Henriques: Linux 3.5.7.22 . (October 5, 2013)