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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:
| April 4, 2022 | 5.18 Merge window, part 2 |
| April 1, 2022 | A security fix briefly breaks DMA |
| March 31, 2022 | Indirect branch tracking for Intel CPUs |
| March 29, 2022 | Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random |
| March 28, 2022 | Pointer tagging for x86 systems |
| March 25, 2022 | 5.18 Merge window, part 1 |
| March 24, 2022 | A way out for a.out |
| March 21, 2022 | A look at some 5.17 development statistics |
| March 18, 2022 | Driver regression testing with roadtest |
| March 17, 2022 | Improved response times with latency nice |
| March 14, 2022 | Triggering huge-page collapse from user space |
| March 11, 2022 | Random numbers and virtual-machine forks |
| March 10, 2022 | Toward a better list iterator for the kernel |
| March 7, 2022 | When and why to deprecate filesystems |
| March 3, 2022 | Generalized address-space isolation |
| February 28, 2022 | Extending restartable sequences with virtual CPU IDs |
| February 25, 2022 | Better visibility into packet-dropping decisions |
| February 24, 2022 | Moving the kernel to modern C |
| February 21, 2022 | Shadow stacks for user space |
| February 18, 2022 | Thoughts on software-defined silicon |
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