[$] The ongoing quest for atomic buffered writes
There are many applications that need to be able to write multi-block chunks of data to disk with the assurance that the operation will either complete successfully or fail altoget [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1060063/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #PostgreSQL #PostgreSQL #XFS #BPF #io_uring
Høiland-Jørgensen: The inner workings of TCP zero-copy
Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc2
Two new stable kernels, possible regression
Support period lengthened for the 6.6, 6.12, and 6.18 kernels
[$] No hardware memory isolation for BPF programs
On February 12, Yeoreum Yun posted a suggestion for an improvement to the security of the kernel's BPF implementation: use memory protection keys to prevent unauthorized access to [...]
[$] As ye clone(), so shall ye AUTOREAP
The facilities provided by the kernel for the management of processes have evolved considerably in the last few years, driven mostly by the advent of the pidfd API. A pidfd is a f [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1059673/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #systemd
