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Recent LWN.net kernel articles
LWN runs kernel-oriented content every week. Some of our more
recent articles in this area include:
| March 13, 2025 | Warming up to frozen pages for networking |
| March 10, 2025 | Capability analysis for the kernel |
| March 7, 2025 | Hash-based module integrity checking |
| March 6, 2025 | Timer IDs, CRIU, and ABI challenges |
| March 3, 2025 | Guard pages for file-backed memory |
| February 27, 2025 | A hole in FineIBT protection |
| February 25, 2025 | A possible path for cancelable BPF programs |
| February 24, 2025 | Slabs, sheaves, and barns |
| February 20, 2025 | Filesystem support for block sizes larger than the page size |
| February 20, 2025 | Support for atomic block writes in 6.13 |
| February 19, 2025 | Extending time slices for user-space locks |
| February 18, 2025 | FUSE folio conversion confusion |
| February 13, 2025 | Multi-size THP creation, two different ways |
| February 11, 2025 | Smarter IRQ suspension in the networking stack |
| February 10, 2025 | Maintainer opinions on Rust-for-Linux |
| February 7, 2025 | Improved load-time checking for BPF kfuncs |
| February 4, 2025 | An update on sealed system mappings |
| February 3, 2025 | The rest of the 6.14 merge window |
| January 30, 2025 | Resistance to Rust abstractions for DMA mapping |
| January 23, 2025 | The trouble with the new uretprobes |
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