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Alistair Popple started his session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit by proclaiming that ZONE_DEVICE is "the ugly stepchild" of the kernel's memory-management subsystem. Ugly or not, the ability to manage ...

At last year's Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), there was a discussion about atomic writes that was accompanied by patches to support the feature in the block layer, and for direct I/O on XFS. That work was ...

Yonghong Song brought a story about tracking down the cause of a strange verifier error message to the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. He then presented some possible ways to improve Clang's user experience for ...

Address-space isolation may well be, as Brendan Jackman said at the beginning of his memory-management-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, "some security bullshit". But it also holds the potential ...

The kernel must often step through the page tables of one or more processes to carry out various operations. This "page-table walking" tends to be performed by ad-hoc (duplicated) code all over the kernel. Oscar Salvador used a memory-management ...

Version 1.86.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include support for trait upcasting, the ability to index multiple elements of HashMaps and slices mutably, and a number of stabilized APIs.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Calibre 8.0; Fedora reproducibility; OpenWrt One; 6.15 Merge Window; LSFMM+BPF coverage including BPF in GCC, Rust merging process, and more. Briefs: Ubuntu namespaces; New FPL; PorteuX 2.0; Firefox ...

Saying that calibre is ebook-management software undersells the application by a fair margin. Calibre is an open-source Swiss Army knife for ebooks that can be used for everything from creating ebooks, converting ebooks from obscure formats to modern ...

José Marchesi and David Faust kicked off the BPF track at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit with an extra-long session on what they have been doing to support compiling to BPF in GCC. Overall, the project is ...

Ryan Sipes has announced efforts to expand Thunderbird's offerings with web services to "enhance the experience of using Thunderbird". The Why for offering these services is simple. Thunderbird loses users each day to rich ecosystems that are both ...