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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:

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
Oct 21, 2015	Simple wait queues; Random number scalability again; RichACLs.
Oct 14, 2015	Unprivileged bpf(); Kernel development with QEMU.
Oct 07, 2015	Dropping the timer tick; copy_file_range(); strscpy() and the hazards of improved interfaces.
Sep 30, 2015	Compile-time stack validation; Random number scalability; The KVM API.
Sep 23, 2015	Memory-allocation improvements; The kernel connection multiplexer; Arch porting part 3.
Sep 16, 2015	The end of the 4.3 merge window; Extended error reporting; Android at LPC part 2.
Sep 10, 2015	4.3 Merge window part 2; Identifier locator addressing; Android at LPC.
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.

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.

Yakir Yang: Add Analogix Core Display Port Driver . (October 24, 2015)

Andreas Gruenbacher: Richacls . (October 24, 2015)

Ingi Kim: Add RT5033 Flash LED driver . (October 24, 2015)

=?UTF-8?q?Bendik=20R=C3=B8nning=20Opstad?=: tcp: Redundant Data Bundling (RDB) . (October 24, 2015)

Kamal Mostafa: Linux 3.13.11-ckt28 . (October 24, 2015)

Kamal Mostafa: Linux 3.19.8-ckt8 . (October 24, 2015)

Dave Watson: restartable sequences benchmarks . (October 24, 2015)

Tom Zanussi: tracing: 'hist' triggers . (October 24, 2015)

Zefan Li: Linux 3.4.110 . (October 24, 2015)

Greg KH: Linux 3.10.91 . (October 23, 2015)

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