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[$] Preserving guest memory across kexec
The final session in the memory-management track at the 2022 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF...
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[$] Fixing a race in hugetlbfs
As the memory-management track at the 2022 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM) neared...
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[$] get_user_pages() and COW, 2022 edition
The numerous correctness problems with the kernel's get_user_pages() functionality have been a fixture at the Linux...
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Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (kernel), Debian (ark, openldap, and thunderbird), Fedora (freetype and...
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Rust 1.61.0 released [LWN.net]
Version 1.61.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes this time around include more flexibility...
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[$] Cleaning up dying control groups, 2022 edition
Control groups are a useful system-management feature, but they can also consume a lot of resources,...
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[$] CXL 2: Pooling, sharing, and I/O-memory resources
During the final day of the 2022 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM), attention...
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Huang: Rust: A Critical Retrospective [LWN.net]
Andrew 'bunnie' Huang has posted an extensive review of the Rust language derived from the experience...
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Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (microcode_ctl, rubygem-nokogiri, and vim), Mageia (htmldoc, python-django, and python-oslo-utils),...
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 19, 2022
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 19, 2022 is available.
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LWN is hiring [LWN.net]
LWN does its best to provide comprehensive coverage of the free-software development community, but there is...
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[$] Unique identifiers for NFS
In a combined filesystem and storage session at the 2022 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF...
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openSUSE Leap Micro 5.2 released [LWN.net]
OpenSUSE Leap Micro is a new distribution, described as "an ultra-reliable, lightweight operating system built for...
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[$] Snapshots, inodes, and filesystem identifiers
A longstanding problem with Btrfs subvolumes and duplicate inode numbers was the topic of a late-breaking...
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Yet another set of stable kernel updates [LWN.net]
The 5.17.9, 5.15.41, 5.10.117, 5.4.195, 4.19.244, 4.14.280, and 4.9.315 stable kernel updates have all been released;...
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Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (elog, needrestart, openssl, and waitress), Fedora (curl, libxml2, slurm,...
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[$] Bringing bcachefs to the mainline
Bcachefs is a longstanding out-of-tree filesystem that grew out of the bcache caching layer that has...
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[$] Sharing page tables with mshare()
The Linux kernel allows processes to share pages in memory, but the page tables used to...
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Inkscape 1.2 released [LWN.net]
Version 1.2 of the Inkscape drawing tool has been released. New features include multi-page support, editable...
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Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cifs-utils, ffmpeg, libxml2, and vim), Fedora (rsyslog), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable),...
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[$] Dynamically allocated pseudo-filesystems
It is perhaps unusual to have a kernel tracing developer leading a filesystem session, Steven Rostedt...
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SFC v. Vizio remanded back to California state courts [LWN.net]
Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) has announced that it succeeded with its motion in US Federal Court...
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[$] The netfslib helper library
A new helper library for network filesystems, called netfslib, was the subject of a filesystem session...
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Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (gzip, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, and zlib), Debian (adminer, htmldoc, imagemagick,...