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 Index for instant access to all LWN kernel articles, organized by topic.

Recent LWN.net kernel articles

LWN runs kernel-oriented content every week. Some of our more recent articles in this area include:

April 28, 2023	6.4 Merge window, part 1
April 27, 2023	Unprivileged BPF and authoritative security hooks
April 24, 2023	Development statistics for 6.3
April 21, 2023	Designated movable (memory) blocks
April 20, 2023	Disabling SELinux's runtime disable
April 17, 2023	Avoiding the merge trap
April 13, 2023	Process-level kernel samepage merging control
April 12, 2023	The early days of Linux
April 10, 2023	Standardizing BPF
April 7, 2023	The shrinking role of semaphores
April 6, 2023	Seeking an acceptable unaccepted memory policy
April 3, 2023	User trace events, one year later
March 31, 2023	An operation for filesystem tucking
March 30, 2023	The trouble with MODULE_LICENSE() in non-modules
March 27, 2023	The curious case of O_DIRECTORY|O_CREAT
March 24, 2023	User-space shadow stacks (maybe) for 6.4
March 20, 2023	Reducing direct-map fragmentation with __GFP_UNMAPPED
March 17, 2023	Generic iterators for BPF
March 16, 2023	Zero-copy I/O for ublk, three different ways
March 13, 2023	Heuristics for software-interrupt processing

Recent kernel patches

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