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Recent LWN.net kernel articles
LWN runs kernel-oriented content every week. Some of our more
recent articles in this area include:
| November 1, 2019 | Next steps for kernel workflow improvement |
| October 30, 2019 | Unifying kernel tracing |
| October 28, 2019 | Type checking for BPF tracing |
| October 25, 2019 | Redesigned workqueues for io_uring |
| October 23, 2019 | BPF and the realtime patch set |
| October 18, 2019 | Implementing alignment guarantees for kmalloc() |
| October 17, 2019 | Really fixing getrandom() |
| October 16, 2019 | WireGuard and the crypto API |
| October 14, 2019 | Finding race conditions with KCSAN |
| October 11, 2019 | Calibrating your fear of big bad optimizing compilers |
| October 10, 2019 | BPF at Facebook (and beyond) |
| October 7, 2019 | Adding the pidfd abstraction to the kernel |
| October 3, 2019 | Why printk() is so complicated (and how to fix it) |
| September 30, 2019 | 5.4 Merge window, part 2 |
| September 27, 2019 | Fixing getrandom() |
| September 26, 2019 | Upstreaming multipath TCP |
| September 23, 2019 | 5.4 Merge window, part 1 |
| September 20, 2019 | Many uses for Core scheduling |
| September 18, 2019 | Deep argument inspection for seccomp |
| September 17, 2019 | Maintainers Summit topics: pull depth, hardware vulnerabilities, etc. |
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