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Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Dirk and Linus talk; BPF and GCC; private memory modes; BPF page-cache policies; major page faults; LLM kernel review; tiered-memory support; transparent huge pages; page mappings; Model Openness Tool ...

The Linux Foundation will be hosting a live interview with LWN co-founder Jonathan Corbet. The [...]

Many large language models (LLMs) are described as open source, but if one looks a bit deeper it turns out that is not actually so; the model may be free to download, it may be "open weight", but it does not fit the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Open ...

I recently presented a brief tribute to Andrew Morton at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Me [...]

The mapcount field was created to track the number of mappings (page-table entries) that refer to the given page. Among other things, a mapcount of zero means that the page has no references and can be reclaimed. Maintaining mapcount has become ...

Rodrigo Arias Mallo, maintainer of the Dillo web browser, has written a blog post with a propos [...]

Curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg writes about the stress of keeping up with the current flood of [...]

Huge pages can improve performance by increasing translation lookaside buffer (TLB) utilization and reducing memory-management overhead. Transparent huge pages (THPs) are supposed to make huge-page usage, well, transparent, Nico Pache said at the ...

In a plenary session at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, the state of patch review using large language models (LLMs) was discussed. It is a topic that has been swirling around in the kernel community for much of ...

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) published a news item on May 18 about its response to vi [...]