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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 6, 2020 | Atomic kmaps become local |
| November 2, 2020 | Kernel support for processor undervolting |
| October 29, 2020 | Relief for insomniac tracepoints |
| October 27, 2020 | Two address-space-isolation patches get closer |
| October 26, 2020 | The rest of the 5.10 merge window |
| October 22, 2020 | Constant-action bitmaps for seccomp() |
| October 16, 2020 | 5.10 Merge window, part 1 |
| October 15, 2020 | The Arm64 memory tagging extension in Linux |
| October 13, 2020 | Some 5.9 kernel development statistics |
| October 9, 2020 | NAPI polling in kernel threads |
| October 8, 2020 | The ABI status of filesystem formats |
| October 1, 2020 | From O_MAYEXEC to trusted_for() |
| September 24, 2020 | Saying goodbye to set_fs() |
| September 22, 2020 | Accurate timestamps for the ftrace ring buffer |
| September 18, 2020 | Four short stories about preempt_count() |
| September 17, 2020 | The seqcount latch lock type |
| September 14, 2020 | Modernizing the tasklet API |
| September 10, 2020 | Android kernel notes from LPC 2020 |
| September 9, 2020 | Preparing for the realtime future |
| September 9, 2020 | Lua in the kernel? |
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