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Eduard Zingerman presented a daring proposal that "makes sense if you think about it a bit" at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. He wants to inline performance-sensitive kernel functions into the BPF programs that ...

Building on the discussion in the two previous sessions on untorn (or atomic) writes, for buffered I/O and for XFS using direct I/O, Ojaswin Mujoo remotely led a session on support for the feature on ext4. That took place in the combined storage and ...

Over on the Red Hat Developer site, David Malcolm has an article about improvements in GCC 15, specifically focusing on the diagnostic information that the compiler emits. This includes ASCII art with a "" warning emoji to display the execution path ...

Compute Express Link (CXL) memory is not like the ordinary RAM that one might install into a computer; it can come and go at any time and is often not present when the kernel is booting. That complicates the management of this memory. During the ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of eight stable kernels: 6.14.2, 6.13.11, 6.12.23, 6.6.87, 6.1.134, 5.15.180, 5.10.236, and 5.4.292. These all contain a large assortment of important kernel fixes throughout the tree.

The Data Access MONitor (DAMON) subsystem provides access to detailed memory-management statistics, along with a set of tools for implementing policies based on those statistics. An update on DAMON by its primary author, SeongJae Park, has been a ...

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Debian project leader election; 6.15 Merge window; Lots of LSFMM coverage; Joplin. Briefs: Firefox hardening; OpenSSH 10.0; Supply chain security; FreeDOS 1.4; OpenSSL 3.5.0; Rust 1.86.0; Quotes;

Tom Schuster, Frederik Braun, and Christoph Kerschbaumer have published an article on the Firefox Security team's Attack & Defense blog that explains recent work to harden Firefox's frontend code. We have rewritten over 600 JavaScript event handlers ...

In a combined storage and filesystem track session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, John Garry continued the theme of "untorn" (or atomic) writes that started in the previous session. It was also an update on ...

Four candidates have stepped up to run in the 2025 Debian Project Leader (DPL) election. Andreas Tille, who is in his first term as DPL, is running again. Sruthi Chandran, Gianfranco Costamagna, and Julian Andres Klode are the other candidates ...