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:

April 30, 2025	Better debugging information for inlined kernel functions
April 29, 2025	Cache awareness for the CPU scheduler
April 28, 2025	Inline socket-local storage for BPF
April 24, 2025	Some __nonstring__ turbulence
April 24, 2025	Freezing filesystems for suspend
April 23, 2025	VFS write barriers
April 22, 2025	Code signing for BPF programs
April 22, 2025	DMA addresses for UIO
April 21, 2025	Indirect calls in BPF
April 18, 2025	The problem of unnecessary readahead
April 18, 2025	Tracepoints for the VFS?
April 17, 2025	Memory controller performance improvements
April 16, 2025	Parallel directory operations
April 16, 2025	Taking BPF programs beyond one-million instructions
April 16, 2025	Improvements for the contiguous memory allocator
April 16, 2025	Topics from the virtual filesystem layer
April 15, 2025	Automatic tuning for weighted interleaving
April 14, 2025	In search of a stable BPF verifier
April 14, 2025	The state of the memory-management development process, 2025 edition
April 11, 2025	Managing multiple sources of page-hotness data

The LWN kernel-source database

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Recent kernel patches

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