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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 22, 2013	Ktap; Low-latency Ethernet device polling; An unexpected perf feature.
May 15, 2013	copy_range(); 3.10 merge window conclusion; Smarter shrinkers; User-space page fault handling.
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.

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.

Pablo Neira Ayuso: iptables 1.4.19 release . (May 30, 2013)

Glauber Costa: per-cgroup cpu-stat . (May 30, 2013)

Mathias Nyman: gpio: add Intel BayTrail gpio driver . (May 30, 2013)

Nicolas Pitre: MCPM support for big.LITTLE Virtual Express RTSM . (May 30, 2013)

Steve Capper: ARM: mm: HugeTLB + THP support. . (May 30, 2013)

Eliezer Tamir: net: low latency Ethernet device polling . (May 29, 2013)

Jiang Liu: Introduce hotplug-safe PCI bus iterators . (May 29, 2013)

Sergei Shtylyov: V4L2: soc_camera: Renesas R-Car VIN driver . (May 29, 2013)

Sergei Shtylyov: V4L2: I2C: ML86V7667 video decoder driver . (May 29, 2013)

Steve Capper: HugeTLB and THP support for ARM64. . (May 29, 2013)

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