corbet    Linus has released the kernel No unexpected nasty surprises this last week so here we go with the release right on schedule Some of the headline changes in this release include the DAMOS memory management interface a number of random number generator improvements the Intel

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corbet    The final session in the memory management track at the Linux Storage Filesystem Memory management and BPF Summit LSFMM was run remotely by James Gowans and David Woodhouse It was titled user space control of memory mappings with a subtitle of letting guest memory and state survive

corbet    As the memory management track at the Linux Storage Filesystem Memory management and BPF Summit LSFMM neared its conclusion Mike Kravetz ran a session remotely to talk about page sharing with hugetlbfs which is a special filesystem that provides access to huge pages See this article

corbet    The numerous correctness problems with the kernel s get user pages functionality have been a fixture at the Linux Storage Filesystem Memory management and BPF Summit LSFMM for some years The event did not break that tradition The first day discussion on page pinning was covered

jake    Security updates have been issued by CentOS kernel Debian ark openldap and thunderbird Fedora freetype and vim Oracle NET NET NET Core container tools glibc kernel rsync and subversion Scientific Linux kernel SUSE dcraw firefox glib ImageMagick

corbet    Version of the Rust language has been released Changes this time around include more flexibility in main program exit codes a number of new features for const functions a number of newly stabilized APIs and more

corbet    Control groups are a useful system management feature but they can also consume a lot of resources especially if they hang around on the system after they have been deleted Roman Gushchin described the problems that can result at the Linux Storage Filesystem Memory management and BPF

corbet    During the final day of the Linux Storage Filesystem Memory management and BPF Summit LSFMM attention in the memory management track turned once again to the challenges posed by the upcoming Compute Express Link CXL technology Two sessions looked at different problems posed by CXL

corbet    Andrew bunnie Huang has posted an extensive review of the Rust language derived from the experience of writing over k lines of code Rust is a difficult language for authoring code because it makes these cheats hard as long as you have the discipline of not using unsafe

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corbet    LWN does its best to provide comprehensive coverage of the free software development community but there is far more going on than our small staff can handle When expressed that way this problem suggests an obvious solution make the staff bigger Thus LWN is looking to hire a writer editor

jake    In a combined filesystem and storage session at the Linux Storage Filesystem Memory management and BPF Summit LSFMM Chuck Lever wanted to discuss the need for a permanent globally unique ID for network filesystems He was joined by Hannes Reinecke who has worked on the problem for

corbet    OpenSUSE Leap Micro is a new distribution described as an ultra reliable lightweight operating system built for containerized and virtualized workloads The initial release is now available More information can be found in the release notes