Semi-weekly summary of Linux Kernel Development
Linux 4.12 final is released, the 4.13 merge window opens, and various assorted ongoing kernel development is described in detail
Linux 4.12-rc1 (including a full summary of the 4.12 merge window), Linux 4.11 final is released, saving TLB flushes, various ongoing development, and a bunch of announcements
Linux 4.11-rc8, updating kernel.org cross compilers, Intel 5-level paging, v3 namespaced file capabilities, and ongoing development
Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc7, a kernel security update bonanza, the end of Kconfig maintenance, automatic NUMA balancing, movable memory, a bug in synchronize_rcu_tasks, and ongoing development. The Linux 4.12 merge window should open before next week.
Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc6, Intel Memory Bandwidth Allocation (MBA), Coherent Device Memory (CDM), Paravirtualized Remote TLB Flushing,kernel lockdown, the latest on Intel 5-level paging, and other assorted ongoing development activities
Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc5, Donald Drumpf drains the maintainer swamp in April, Intel FPGA Device Drivers, FPU state cacheing, /dev/mem access crashing machines, and assorted ongoing development
Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc4, early debug with USB3 earlycon, upcoming support for USB-C in 4.12, and ongoing development including various work on boot time speed ups, logging, futexes, and IOMMUs
Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc3, this week's exciting installment of "5-level paging weekly", the 2038 doomsday compliance "statx" systemcall, and heterogenous memory management. Also a summary of all ongoing active kernel development toward 4.12 onwards
Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc2 (including pre-enablement for Intel 5-level paging), VMA based swap readahead, and ongoing development ahead of the next cycle.
Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc1, rants about folks not correctly leveraging linux-next, the remainder of this cycle's merge window pulls, and announcements concerning end of life for some features.
The merge window for kernel 4.11 is open and patches are flying into Linus's inbox, fixing NUMA node determination at runtime, Virtual Machine Aware Caches, Advisory Memory Allocations, and a non-fixed TASK_SIZE to bring excitement to your life.
In this week’s edition: Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.10, Alan Tull updates his FPGA manager framework, and Intel’s latest 5-level paging patch series is posted for review. We will have this, and a summary of ongoing development in the first of the newly revived Linux Kernel Podcast.
2.6.31 merge window, shipping userspace (sub)packages,large kernel images, and matching disks to boot order
Linux 2.6.30 updates, lockless ring buffer, poisoned hardware, platform device architectural data, and virtual swap readahead
Linux 2.6.30, performance overhead, IO scheduler based IO controller, VIA Centaur CPUs, and procfs documentation
Fair Anticipatory Scheduling, making mapped executable pages the first class citizen, zone_reclaim() behavorial expectations, MCE ring buffer, RTL8169 related crashes, and a few good hackers
Mild ext4 filesystem corruption, private anonymous mmaps, performance overhead, introducing the initdev patchset, IDE fixes, Performance Counters, Introducing this_cpu_xx operations, converting ftrace syscalls to TRACE_EVENT, the IEEE 802.15.4 stack, DebugFS documentation, CPU hard limits, CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES, and benchmarking the Per-bdi writeback flusher threads patchset
The Linux Driver Project, Remapping NULL pointers, MCE ring buffer, paravirt operations overhead, Super-H, System 390, Console screen blanking, and kernels listed on kernel.org
Xen, zero page pointers, detailed stack information, filesystem notification of errors, printk halt delay, and hardware breakpoints
Xen, OOM, DebugFS, Dynamic ftrace support for s390, kprobe-based event tracing, and resetting the TSC
The spirit of the GPL, hacking at mm_struct, retrying core dumps, security, and a generic hashlist implementation
Xen, page allocator sanitization, poisonous hardware, magic sysrq, System Management Interrupts, and Intel Atom CPU support
ARM devicetree support, ftrace, per-BDI flusher threads, and trusted boot technology
Kernel based checkpoint and restart, per-BDI writeback flusher threads, Microblaze MMU support, ARM devicetree support, and Xen
Tracepoints, modules, Machine Check Exceptions, and IO scheduling
dynamic performance counters, kprobe-based event tracing, OOM killer, page sanitization, 16-bit stack corruption on NMI, DO_ONCE, CPU hotplug, and a new kernel release
Today's issue was delayed due to your author taking a day off ahead of the US Memorial Weekend Holiday. Since I'll be in Ottawa, Canada over the weekend, the weekend update will likely be delayed until Monday evening.In today's issue: putting struct inode on a diet, sparse interrupt allocation, union directories, zone reclaim defaults, and firewire interface naming conventions.
Sysfs, Dynamic percpu, perf. counters, KVM, and Documentation
KVM, Xen, 2.6.30-rc6 frustrations, and miscellaneous items
Expedited RCU, mod_timer() helper functions, CAN, version numbering, and performance regressions
Generic DMA, KVM, DRBD, and a new kernel RC release
Cross-platform device drivers, DRBD, KVM, Btrfs, and 2.6.30 deadlocks
KVM, Xen, hibernate, forced CPU evacuation, hardware breakpoints, MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE, and asm-generic headers
the x86 relocatable kernel, performance counters, devtmpfs, and NUMA memory affinity
page frame snapshots tracing, devtmpfs, a minimal linkerscript, and email address formats
The Linux Kernel Mailing List podcast airs Monday to Friday. A special weekend edition will be available on Monday morning.
Intel's Trusted Execution Technology, Block Layer Unification, Security patches, Filtering System Calls, The Linux Wireless mini-summit, kernel code coverage measurement tools, and a new RC is announced
Generic DMA mapping, Ptrace, Reducing the default HZ value, TuxOnIce, Xen, and x86 fixes
IO Controllers, KVM, Ftrace 2, TuxOnIce, and Slow booting.
CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES, Sanity checking sysfs clocksource changes, Ftrace, Memmap validity checking, Security, KVM, and IO scheduler based IO controllers.
The sendgroup() system call, VFAT long file names support, Machine Check Exceptions, Kbuild fixes, Real Time scheduler tunables, Ftrace speed ups, a new x86 instruction decoder, interrupt injection for KVM, reducing the default HZ value, and the latest updates to KSM.
The cgroup IO-throttling scheduler, blank screens upon resume, DRBD, __GFP_PANIC, specific processor optimizations, file descriptor (ab)uses, and the feature removal schedule.