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Recent LWN.net kernel articles
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recent articles in this area include:
| August 26, 2024 | A new version of modversions |
| August 22, 2024 | A review of file descriptor memory safety in the kernel |
| August 20, 2024 | Per-call-site slab caches for heap-spraying protection |
| August 15, 2024 | Memory-management: tiered memory, huge pages, and EROFS |
| August 14, 2024 | Standards for use of unsafe Rust in the kernel |
| August 7, 2024 | CRIB: checkpoint/restore in BPF |
| August 7, 2024 | Tracing the source of filesystem errors |
| August 5, 2024 | Handling filesystem interruptibility |
| August 1, 2024 | Maximal min() and max() |
| July 30, 2024 | Famfs: a filesystem interface to shareable memory |
| July 29, 2024 | The rest of the 6.11 merge window |
| July 26, 2024 | May the FOLL_FORCE not be with you |
| July 25, 2024 | What became of getrandom() in the vDSO |
| July 24, 2024 | Large folios, swap, and FS-Cache |
| July 23, 2024 | A look inside the BPF verifier |
| July 19, 2024 | Restricting execution of scripts — the third approach |
| July 18, 2024 | Filesystem testing for stable kernels |
| July 18, 2024 | The first half of the 6.11 merge window |
| July 17, 2024 | Changing the filesystem-maintenance model |
| July 16, 2024 | Hierarchical storage management, fanotify, FUSE, and more |
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