Linux Kernel Podcast

Jon Masters summarizes the arrival of the Linux 6.3 kernel release, which includes additional support for the Rust programming language, a new red-black tree data structure for BPF programs, and the removal of a large number of legacy Arm systems.

Jon Masters summarizes the closure of the Linux 6.3 "merge window" (period of time during which disruptive changes are allowed to the kernel) and the release of Linux 6.3-rc1. Meanwhile, ongoing development includes the deprecation of several legacy architectures, an Apple Silicon graphics driver written in Rust, and much more.

Jon Masters summarizes the tail end of the Linux 6.2 kernel development cycle as developers prepare for the upcoming 6.3 "merge window" in the week ahead. Meanwhile, ongoing development across the stack focuses heavily on Confidential Compute technologies from the various processor architecture vendors.

The Linux "Kernel Podcast" returns from a long hiatus for a new "season 2". Our host Jon Masters introduces the new season, and summarizes recent happenings during Linux 6.2 development.

Linux 4.12 final is released, the 4.13 merge window opens, and various assorted ongoing kernel development is described in detail

Linux 4.12-rc1 (including a full summary of the 4.12 merge window), Linux 4.11 final is released, saving TLB flushes, various ongoing development, and a bunch of announcements

Linux 4.11-rc8, updating kernel.org cross compilers, Intel 5-level paging, v3 namespaced file capabilities, and ongoing development

Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc7, a kernel security update bonanza, the end of Kconfig maintenance, automatic NUMA balancing, movable memory, a bug in synchronize_rcu_tasks, and ongoing development. The Linux 4.12 merge window should open before next week.

Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc6, Intel Memory Bandwidth Allocation (MBA), Coherent Device Memory (CDM), Paravirtualized Remote TLB Flushing,kernel lockdown, the latest on Intel 5-level paging, and other assorted ongoing development activities

Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc5, Donald Drumpf drains the maintainer swamp in April, Intel FPGA Device Drivers, FPU state cacheing, /dev/mem access crashing machines, and assorted ongoing development

Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc4, early debug with USB3 earlycon, upcoming support for USB-C in 4.12, and ongoing development including various work on boot time speed ups, logging, futexes, and IOMMUs

Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc3, this week's exciting installment of "5-level paging weekly", the 2038 doomsday compliance "statx" systemcall, and heterogenous memory management. Also a summary of all ongoing active kernel development toward 4.12 onwards

Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc2 (including pre-enablement for Intel 5-level paging), VMA based swap readahead, and ongoing development ahead of the next cycle.

Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc1, rants about folks not correctly leveraging linux-next, the remainder of this cycle's merge window pulls, and announcements concerning end of life for some features.

The merge window for kernel 4.11 is open and patches are flying into Linus's inbox, fixing NUMA node determination at runtime, Virtual Machine Aware Caches, Advisory Memory Allocations, and a non-fixed TASK_SIZE to bring excitement to your life.

In this week's edition: Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.10, Alan Tull updates his FPGA manager framework, and Intel's latest 5-level paging patch series is posted for review. We will have this, and a summary of ongoing development in the first of the newly revived Linux Kernel Podcast.

2.6.31 merge window, shipping userspace (sub)packages,large kernel images, and matching disks to boot order

Linux 2.6.30 updates, lockless ring buffer, poisoned hardware, platform device architectural data, and virtual swap readahead

Linux 2.6.30, performance overhead, IO scheduler based IO controller, VIA Centaur CPUs, and procfs documentation

Fair Anticipatory Scheduling, making mapped executable pages the first class citizen, zone_reclaim() behavorial expectations, MCE ring buffer, RTL8169 related crashes, and a few good hackers

Mild ext4 filesystem corruption, private anonymous mmaps, performance overhead, introducing the initdev patchset, IDE fixes, Performance Counters, Introducing this_cpu_xx operations, converting ftrace syscalls to TRACE_EVENT, the IEEE 802.15.4 stack, DebugFS documentation, CPU hard limits, CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES, and benchmarking the Per-bdi writeback flusher threads patchset

The Linux Driver Project, Remapping NULL pointers, MCE ring buffer, paravirt operations overhead, Super-H, System 390, Console screen blanking, and kernels listed on kernel.org

Xen, zero page pointers, detailed stack information, filesystem notification of errors, printk halt delay, and hardware breakpoints

Xen, OOM, DebugFS, Dynamic ftrace support for s390, kprobe-based event tracing, and resetting the TSC

The spirit of the GPL, hacking at mm_struct, retrying core dumps, security, and a generic hashlist implementation

Xen, page allocator sanitization, poisonous hardware, magic sysrq, System Management Interrupts, and Intel Atom CPU support

ARM devicetree support, ftrace, per-BDI flusher threads, and trusted boot technology

Kernel based checkpoint and restart, per-BDI writeback flusher threads, Microblaze MMU support, ARM devicetree support, and Xen

Tracepoints, modules, Machine Check Exceptions, and IO scheduling

dynamic performance counters, kprobe-based event tracing, OOM killer, page sanitization, 16-bit stack corruption on NMI, DO_ONCE, CPU hotplug, and a new kernel release

Today's issue was delayed due to your author taking a day off ahead of the US Memorial Weekend Holiday. Since I'll be in Ottawa, Canada over the weekend, the weekend update will likely be delayed until Monday evening.In today's issue: putting struct inode on a diet, sparse interrupt allocation, union directories, zone reclaim defaults, and firewire interface naming conventions.

Sysfs, Dynamic percpu, perf. counters, KVM, and Documentation

Xen, tracepoints, RAID6, and MCE

KVM, Xen, 2.6.30-rc6 frustrations, and miscellaneous items

Expedited RCU, mod_timer() helper functions, CAN, version numbering, and performance regressions

Generic DMA, KVM, DRBD, and a new kernel RC release

Cross-platform device drivers, DRBD, KVM, Btrfs, and 2.6.30 deadlocks

KVM, Xen, hibernate, forced CPU evacuation, hardware breakpoints, MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE, and asm-generic headers

vmscan, irqfd, OOM, and Xen

the x86 relocatable kernel, performance counters, devtmpfs, and NUMA memory affinity

page frame snapshots tracing, devtmpfs, a minimal linkerscript, and email address formats

The Linux Kernel Mailing List podcast airs Monday to Friday. A special weekend edition will be available on Monday morning.

Intel's Trusted Execution Technology, Block Layer Unification, Security patches, Filtering System Calls, The Linux Wireless mini-summit, kernel code coverage measurement tools, and a new RC is announced

Generic DMA mapping, Ptrace, Reducing the default HZ value, TuxOnIce, Xen, and x86 fixes

IO Controllers, KVM, Ftrace 2, TuxOnIce, and Slow booting.

CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES, Sanity checking sysfs clocksource changes, Ftrace, Memmap validity checking, Security, KVM, and IO scheduler based IO controllers.

The sendgroup() system call, VFAT long file names support, Machine Check Exceptions, Kbuild fixes, Real Time scheduler tunables, Ftrace speed ups, a new x86 instruction decoder, interrupt injection for KVM, reducing the default HZ value, and the latest updates to KSM.

The cgroup IO-throttling scheduler, blank screens upon resume, DRBD, __GFP_PANIC, specific processor optimizations, file descriptor (ab)uses, and the feature removal schedule.