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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 |
|---|
| 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. |
| Mar 06, 2013 |
3.9 merge window conclusion; big LITTLE MP; Simplifying RCU; Namespaces part 6. |
| Feb 27, 2013 |
3.9 Merge window, second episode; In-kernel switcher for big.LITTLE; Loading keys from Microsoft PE binaries. |
| Feb 20, 2013 |
kvmtool; The 3.9 merge window opens; Multi-cluster power management. |
| Feb 14, 2013 |
Some 3.8 development statistics; Rationalizing CPU hotplugging; Zswap. |
| Feb 06, 2013 |
User-space lockdep; A simplified IDR API; Trinity. |
| Jan 30, 2013 |
Asynchronous block loop I/O; Rethinking optimization for size; Glibc and the kernel user-space API. |
Recent kernel patches
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