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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 23, 2012 |
The 3.5 merge window opens; Preparing for nonvolatile RAM; Removing four bytes from the kernel ABI. |
| May 16, 2012 |
Ext* user and group mount options; printk() tweaks; A bcache update. |
| May 09, 2012 |
The CoDel queue management algorithm; Statistics from the 3.4 development cycle; Supporting multi-platform ARM kernels. |
| May 02, 2012 |
Better active/inactive list balancing; TCP connection repair; Fixing the unfixable autofs ABI. |
| Apr 25, 2012 |
O_HOT and O_COLD; Toward a safer fput(); A library for seccomp filters. |
| Apr 18, 2012 |
Uninitialized file blocks; Toward more reliable logging; Release bureaucracy; LTTng part 2. |
| Apr 11, 2012 |
SCHED_DEADLINE; User namespaces; Finding the right evolutionary niche; LTTng 2.0 part 1. |
| Apr 04, 2012 |
3.4 Merge window part 3; Extensive Linux storage, filesystem, and memory management summit coverage. |
| Mar 28, 2012 |
3.4 Merge window part 2; IMA appraisal extension; AutoNUMA. |
| Mar 21, 2012 |
Linsched; 3.4 Merge window part 1; The perils of pr_info(); Toward better NUMA scheduling. |
Recent kernel patches
A few of the most recently posted kernel patches are listed below;
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- Alex Williamson: VFIO .
(May 30, 2012)
