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.
May 22, 2009•5 min
Sysfs, Dynamic percpu, perf. counters, KVM, and Documentation
May 21, 2009•4 min
Xen, tracepoints, RAID6, and MCE
May 20, 2009•4 min
KVM, Xen, 2.6.30-rc6 frustrations, and miscellaneous items
May 19, 2009•4 min
Expedited RCU, mod_timer() helper functions, CAN, version numbering, and performance regressions
May 18, 2009•5 min
Generic DMA, KVM, DRBD, and a new kernel RC release
May 16, 2009•5 min
Cross-platform device drivers, DRBD, KVM, Btrfs, and 2.6.30 deadlocks
May 15, 2009•5 min
KVM, Xen, hibernate, forced CPU evacuation, hardware breakpoints, MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE, and asm-generic headers
May 14, 2009•7 min
vmscan, irqfd, OOM, and Xen
May 13, 2009•5 min
the x86 relocatable kernel, performance counters, devtmpfs, and NUMA memory affinity
May 12, 2009•5 min
page frame snapshots tracing, devtmpfs, a minimal linker script, and email address formats
May 11, 2009•4 min
The Linux Kernel Mailing List podcast airs Monday to Friday. A special weekend edition will be available on Monday morning.
May 10, 2009•13 sec
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
May 09, 2009•6 min
Generic DMA mapping, Ptrace, Reducing the default HZ value, TuxOnIce, Xen, and x86 fixes
May 08, 2009•5 min
IO Controllers, KVM, Ftrace 2, TuxOnIce, and Slow booting.
May 07, 2009•4 min
CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES, Sanity checking sysfs clocksource changes, Ftrace, Memmap validity checking, Security, KVM, and IO scheduler based IO controllers.
May 06, 2009•5 min
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.
May 06, 2009•6 min
The cgroup IO-throttling scheduler, blank screens upon resume, DRBD, __GFP_PANIC, specific processor optimizations, file descriptor (ab)uses, and the feature removal schedule.
May 06, 2009•4 min
