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 9, 2019	The end of the 5.5 merge window
December 6, 2019	Developers split over split-lock detection
December 2, 2019	5.5 Merge window, part 1
November 26, 2019	Fixing SCHED_IDLE
November 22, 2019	Virtio without the "virt"
November 20, 2019	Enhancing KVM for guest protection and security
November 19, 2019	A recap of KVM Forum 2019
November 18, 2019	Some near-term arm64 hardening patches
November 15, 2019	Keeping memory contents secret
November 13, 2019	Analyzing kernel email
November 8, 2019	Emulated iopl()
November 7, 2019	Statistics from the 5.4 development cycle
November 5, 2019	Generalizing address-space isolation
November 4, 2019	Identifying buggy patches with machine learning
November 1, 2019	Next steps for kernel workflow improvement
October 30, 2019	Unifying kernel tracing
October 28, 2019	Type checking for BPF tracing
October 25, 2019	Redesigned workqueues for io_uring
October 23, 2019	BPF and the realtime patch set
October 18, 2019	Implementing alignment guarantees for kmalloc()

Recent kernel patches

A few of the most recently posted kernel patches are listed below; see the LWN Kernel Patches Page for full access to the patch database.

• Jeff LaBundy: Add support for Azoteq IQS620A/621/622/624/625 (December 9, 2019)

• Russell King - ARM Linux admin: Add support for SFP+ copper modules (December 9, 2019)

• Björn Töpel: Introduce the BPF dispatcher (December 9, 2019)

• Peter Ujfalusi: dmaengine/soc: Add Texas Instruments UDMA support (December 9, 2019)

• Ramuthevar,Vadivel MuruganX: spi: cadence-quadpsi: Add support for the Cadence QSPI controller (December 9, 2019)

• Dan Robertson: iio: add driver for Bosch BMA400 accelerometer (December 9, 2019)

• Parth Shah: Introduce per-task latency_tolerance for scheduler hints (December 9, 2019)

• Saravana Kannan: Introduce Bandwidth OPPs for interconnects (December 9, 2019)

• Sami Tolvanen: add support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack (December 9, 2019)

• Linus Torvalds: Linux 5.5-rc1 (December 9, 2019)