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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 11, 2025	Managing multiple sources of page-hotness data
April 11, 2025	Inlining kfuncs into BPF programs
April 10, 2025	Atomic writes for ext4
April 10, 2025	Management of volatile CXL devices
April 10, 2025	Preparing DAMON for future memory-management problems
April 9, 2025	An update on torn-write protection
April 9, 2025	A new type of spinlock for the BPF subsystem
April 9, 2025	Improving hot-page detection and promotion
April 9, 2025	Two approaches to better kernel samepage merging
April 8, 2025	Using large folios for text areas
April 8, 2025	Per-CPU memory for user space
April 7, 2025	An update on pahole
April 7, 2025	Three ways to rework the swap subsystem
April 7, 2025	The rest of the 6.15 merge window
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

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