Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 30, 2019

This edition contains the following feature content:

• A kernel debugger in Python: drgn: an LSFMM session on an interesting debugging tool.
• Improving .deb: a discussion on changes to the venerable .deb package format.
• New system calls: pidfd_open() and close_range(): proposed system calls for opening pidfds and wholesale closing of ranges of file descriptors.
• New system calls for memory management: three more system-call proposals, these for memory-management tasks.
• Memory: the flat, the discontiguous, and the sparse: a historical look at how the kernel represents physical memory.
• Our last batch of coverage from the 2019 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit:
  • Testing and the stable tree
  • Storage testing
  • A way to do atomic writes
  • The Linux "copy problem"
  • Shrinking filesystem caches for dying control groups

This week's edition also includes these inner pages:

• Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Please enjoy this week's edition, and, as always, thank you for supporting LWN.net.

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