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 23, 2024	Rust for embedded Linux kernels
April 19, 2024	Weighted memory interleaving and new system calls
April 18, 2024	Warning about WARN_ON()
April 15, 2024	Cleaning up after BPF exceptions
April 12, 2024	A tale of two troublesome drivers
April 11, 2024	Completing the EEVDF scheduler
April 9, 2024	The first Linaro Forum for Arm Linux kernel topics
April 9, 2024	Diagnosing workqueues
April 3, 2024	A memory model for Rust code in the kernel
April 1, 2024	Improving performance with SCHED_EXT and IOCost
March 25, 2024	The rest of the 6.9 merge window
March 21, 2024	Hardening the kernel against heap-spraying attacks
March 18, 2024	Toward a real "too small to fail" rule
March 14, 2024	The first half of the 6.9 merge window
March 13, 2024	A new filesystem for pidfds
March 11, 2024	Development statistics for 6.8
March 8, 2024	Better linked-list traversal in BPF
March 5, 2024	Formalizing policy zones for memory
February 29, 2024	A sandbox mode for the kernel
February 26, 2024	A RDRAND followup

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.