Weekly edition	Kernel	Security	Distributions	Contact Us	Search
Archives	Calendar	Subscribe	Write for LWN	LWN.net FAQ	Sponsors

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:

2014 Kernel Summit coverage.
Control groups, an extended series on the history, design, and future of control groups 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
Sep 02, 2015	4.3 Merge window, part 1; Thread-level management in control groups; Persistent memory, with and without page structures; Porting part 2.
Aug 26, 2015	Bcachefs; Power-aware scheduling; Porting to a new architecture; 4.2 development stats.
Aug 12, 2015	Libnvdimm and unit testing; The end of the RCU and atomic mode setting sagas.
Aug 05, 2015	ioremap() and memremap(); Atomic mode setting; RCU requirements continued.
Jul 29, 2015	Filesystem mounts in user namespaces; RCU requirements.
Jul 22, 2015	rm -r fs/ext3; Atomic additions; Domesticating applications, OpenBSD style.
Jul 15, 2015	Making kernel pages movable; A walk among the symlinks.
Jul 08, 2015	4.2 Merge window part 3 (and some kernel stats); Deferrable locking; Restartable sequences.
Jul 01, 2015	4.2 Merge window part 2; RCU-walk; Processor Trace.
Jun 24, 2015	4.2 Merge window; Heading off kdbus; Pathname lookup.

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.

Jari Ruusu: Announce loop-AES-v3.7e file/swap crypto package . (September 4, 2015)

Kirill A. Shutemov: THP refcounting redesign . (September 4, 2015)

Hajime Tazaki: an introduction of Linux library operating system (LibOS) . (September 4, 2015)

Chee Nouk Phoo: 0/2] Add Altera Modular ADC Driver . (September 4, 2015)

Lee Jones: remoteproc: Add driver for STMicroelectronics platforms . (September 4, 2015)

Matteo Croce: [PATCH v3] add stealth mode . (September 2, 2015)

Kamal Mostafa: Linux 3.19.8-ckt6 . (September 2, 2015)

Antti Palosaari: SDR transmitter API . (September 2, 2015)

Tom Herbert: flow_dissector: Paramterize dissection and other features . (September 2, 2015)

Ahmed Amamou: TRILL implementation . (September 2, 2015)

Aug	SEP	Oct
	05
2014	2015	2016