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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
May 08, 2013	What's coming in 3.10, part 2; Full tickless; LLVMLinux.
May 01, 2013	What's coming in 3.10, part 1; Wait/wound mutexes; LSFMM coverage complete.
Apr 25, 2013	Narrow bitmasks; Nonvolatile memory devices; LSFMM Summit 2013.
Apr 17, 2013	3.9 Development statistics; Memory power management.
Apr 10, 2013	Retrying revoke(); Randomizing the kernel; Toward a more power-efficient scheduler.
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.

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.

Qiaowei Ren: Intel TXT driver . (May 13, 2013)

Mel Gorman: Obey mark_page_accessed hint given by filesystems v2 . (May 13, 2013)

Mel Gorman: Reduce system disruption due to kswapd V4 . (May 13, 2013)

Michal Hocko: Soft limit rework . (May 13, 2013)

Tony Prisk: Add support for velocity network driver on platform devices . (May 13, 2013)

Minchan Kim: free reclaimed pages by paging out instantly . (May 13, 2013)

Kirill A. Shutemov: Transparent huge page cache . (May 12, 2013)

Daniel Tang: arm: Initial TI-Nspire support . (May 12, 2013)

Jozsef Kadlecsik: ipset 6.19 released . (May 12, 2013)

Glauber Costa: kmemcg shrinkers . (May 12, 2013)

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