Kernel coverage at LWN.net

LWN.net's coverage of Linux kernel development is detailed, technical, and timely.

The article index

See the LWN Kernel Index for instant access to all LWN kernel articles, organized by topic.

Recent LWN.net kernel articles

LWN runs kernel-oriented content every week. Some of our more recent articles in this area include:

December 20, 2024	Process creation in io_uring
December 13, 2024	Facing the Git commit-ID collision catastrophe
December 13, 2024	Providing precise time over the network
December 12, 2024	A last look at the 4.19 stable series
December 6, 2024	Freezing out the page reference count
December 4, 2024	The return of RWF_UNCACHED
December 2, 2024	The rest of the 6.13 merge window
November 27, 2024	The kernel's command-line commotion
November 21, 2024	The beginning of the 6.13 merge window
November 18, 2024	Development statistics for 6.12
November 15, 2024	Two approaches to tightening restrictions on loadable modules
November 14, 2024	Dancing the DMA two-step
November 7, 2024	The trouble with struct sockaddr's fake flexible array
October 28, 2024	AutoFDO and Propeller
October 18, 2024	The long road to lazy preemption
October 16, 2024	Using LKMM atomics in Rust
October 16, 2024	Two pidfd tweaks: PIDFD_GET_INFO and PIDFD_SELF
October 15, 2024	Zapping pointers out of thin air
October 11, 2024	FFI type mismatches in Rust for Linux
October 10, 2024	On Rust in enterprise kernels

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Recent kernel patches

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