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 4, 2025	The state of guest_memfd
April 4, 2025	The future of ZONE_DEVICE
April 4, 2025	Supporting untorn buffered writes
April 4, 2025	A strange BPF error message
April 3, 2025	Page allocation for address-space isolation
April 3, 2025	Better hugetlb page-table walking
April 2, 2025	An update on GCC BPF support
April 2, 2025	Approaches to reducing TLB pressure
April 1, 2025	Slab allocator: sheaves and any-context allocations
April 1, 2025	Updates on storage standards
April 1, 2025	Memory persistence over kexec
March 31, 2025	Improving the merging of anonymous VMAs
March 31, 2025	A herd of migration discussions
March 28, 2025	The first part of the 6.15 merge window
March 27, 2025	A process for handling Rust code in the core kernel
March 26, 2025	The state of the page in 2025
March 25, 2025	Development statistics for 6.14
March 21, 2025	The guaranteed contiguous memory allocator
March 21, 2025	Multiple memory classes for address-space isolation
March 20, 2025	MM medley: huge page allocation, page promotion, KSM, and BPF

The LWN kernel-source database

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Recent kernel patches

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