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Linux 7.2 To Raise LLVM/Clang Compiler Requirement, Add Support For Distributed ThinLTO
Among the early pull requests sent in prior to today's Linux 7.1 release of new material aiming for Linux 7.2 were all the Kbuild updates.…
Linux DRM Ioctl Developed By AMD Being Disabled Following Ongoing Security Issue
It's unfortunately another busy week in the Linux 7.1 kernel space with not everything slowing down so well, late in the cycle and leading to the upcoming 7.1 stable release…
Extract More Kernel Performance with Nvidia CompileIQ Auto-Tuning
NVIDIA CompileIQ tackles one of the hardest problems in performance engineering: finding the compiler options that unlock the best performance for a specific workload. Consider a t…
GPU Forecasters: Language Models as Selective Surrogates for Kernel Optimization
GPU kernels are the workhorse of modern deep learning, and optimizing them (via evolutionary search or coding agents) usually requires repeated measurement on target hardware. Whil…
cgroups and Namespaces — The Linux Kernel's Building Blocks Behind Containers
Every container you have ever run is, at its core, a process with a restricted view of the world and...…
Will installing the CachyOS kernel on Arch Linux break my dual-boot setup or cause any problems?
AMD Expands The Range Of Zen 6 CPUs Detected By The Linux Kernel
The latest open-source/Linux patch activity around AMD's next-gen Zen 6 processors is expanding the range of the CPU models detected by the Linux kernel.…
Erofs – Enhanced Read-Only File System – The Linux Kernel Documentation
From Kernel Scheduler to Python Source Line: Tracing a GPU Stall End to End
TL;DR A GPU that reports 97% utilization can still be the slowest part of a training step,...…
Btrfs Change Coming For Linux 7.2 Yields Very Healthy Performance Gain
A change coming on the way for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle is yielding a significant improvement to the direct I/O write performance…
New Linux CIFSwitch Kernel Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Gain Root Access
Show HN: CVE-2026-40369 Windows Kernel Arbitrary Write Chrome SBX
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 28, 2026
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 28, 2026 is available.…
Integrating the Rust Delta Kernel into ClickHouse
Ubuntu 26.10 Planning To Ship With The Linux 7.2 Kernel
Canonical's kernel team confirmed today their intention of shipping the Ubuntu 26.10 release with what will be the Linux 7.2 kernel.…
The Biggest and Weirdest Commits in Linux Kernel Git History (2017)
A Linux-like kernel in a browser tab – deep dive in the BrowserPod architecture
How the BrowserPod kernel supports running many Linux applications concurrently in the browser using WebAssembly.…
[$] Further progress toward removing the page map count
The mapcount field was created to track the number of mappings (page-table entries) that refer [...]…
Tell HN: First commit on Linux Kernel GitHub Page is from 30th of April 2005
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>…
Towards Feedback-to-Plan Decisions for Self-Evolving LLM Agents in CUDA Kernel Generation
Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong empirical gains as self-evolving agents for CUDA kernel generation, driven by feedback-conditioned planning across generations. Howev…
Xe-Forge: Multi-Stage LLM-Powered Kernel Optimization for Intel GPU
Porting deep learning algorithms to new hardware accelerators requires developers to repeatedly apply the same low-level optimizations -- quantization, memory access coalescing, ti…
Build System Reworked
Finding deadlocks in CuTe kernels with SPIN
Using SPIN model checker to statically find or prove the absence of deadlocks in CuTe DSL kernels on NVIDIA B200, and presenting a proof-of-concept github.com/cheshire/cute2promela…
A Case for Tracing Based DSL Kernel Languages
On the architectural divide between parsing and tracing kernel DSLs, and what tends to go wrong in each.…
Request for reviews - Jikei microkernel
Kernel golfer scores first career ace in Lakeview round
May 26—MITCHELL — Mitchell High School golfer Elliot Smith holed her first career ace over the weekend at Lakeview Golf Course. Smith, who plays for the Kernel girls golf team, had…
Please help!! Live event Kernel error 141 and 1b8
Linux Fu: The Bluetooth Regression
There’s a line in a [Weird Al] (no relation) song that says, “I upgrade my system at least twice a day…” I know how that is. I primarily use a rolling distro, OpenSuse Tumbl……
Linus Torvalds is fed up with AI-generated bug reports bloating the Linux kernel
Writing High-Performance Kernels in TileLang, from GEMM to MLA
If you write GPU kernels, you live somewhere on a spectrum. At one end is Triton: quick to write,...…
Show HN: Auto GPU Kernel – Autonomous GPU-kernel discovery and optimizer
Winner 🏆 (Agent-only) MLSys 2026 - FlashInfer AI Kernel Generation Contest for the DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA) track with an average speedup of 34.93x - Dogacel/auto-gpu-kerne…
Elusive order of async GPU kernels: scheduling, abstractions, DSL implications
SIMT offered a fantastic bargain. You write a straight-line program, the machine runs a lot of copies of it, and when one waits for memory the hardware swaps in others. You look wi…
BODHI: Precise OS Kernel Specification Inference
The formal verification of operating system kernels requires precise specifications that capture the intended behavior of system calls. Writing these specifications manually demand…
CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude
This document describes the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.5.…
[$] Reviewing kernel patches with LLMs
In a plenary session at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, [...]…
I stopped dual-booting Linux after discovering Windows' hidden kernel
Discover the hidden Linux kernel inside your Windows PC and how it can revolutionize your computing experience.…
Kernelplay-JS Update v0.3.0 Sprite & Animation System ECS Game Engine
Torvalds Tightens Linux Kernel Rules to Reject Deluge of Low-Value AI Fixes
Linus Torvalds Is Unhappy About the AI Influence in Linux Kernel Development
Windows and Linux: A Tale of Two Kernels (2004) [video]
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.…
[$] Dirk and Linus discuss AI and kernel development
Linus Torvalds does not enjoy giving talks, but he does consent to the occasional on-stage conv [...]…
CubeCL 0.20.0 is Here: Cross-Platform Kernels for Both CPU and GPU
Pathname lookup – The Linux Kernel documentation
Akasxh/gpucheck: pytest for GPU kernels
pytest for GPU kernels — correctness, benchmarking, and fuzzing for CUDA and Triton - Akasxh/gpucheck…
FastKernels: Benchmarking GPU Kernel Generation in Production
LLM-based agents for GPU kernel generation are advancing rapidly, yet their progress is fundamentally constrained by the benchmarks they optimize against. Existing benchmarks are p…
Building a comfortable workflow for debugging an old version of the Linux kernel
When you want to work on the Linux kernel, for example to see how an exploit acts (like Dirty COW on...…
TID: Linux kernelmodule–flushes CPU cache after wiping sensitive data CLFLUSHOPT
Hardware-level security protocol for mitigating cache-based side-channel attacks. - ahmaaaaadbntaaaaa-byte/TID-The-Instant-Destroyer…
Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc5
The 7.1-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Quoth Linus: I'm not entirely happy about i [...]…
Linux isn't the only kernel the GNU operating system can use.
Beyond the Loop: Why Monolithic AI Agents Fail and How to Build a Microkernel Architecture
If you have built an AI agent recently, chances are your codebase started with a simple, elegant...…
Is this normal? Event 41, Kernel-Power
KernelScript: A Programming Language For Kernel Customization & App Optimizations
Multikernel Technologies Inc has been working on a multi-kernel architecture for the Linux kernel while in addition to that they have been developing KernelScript as a domain-speci…
Local Root Privilege Escalation and Credential Disclosure in the Linux Kernel
The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered and published the full advisory for CVE-2026-46333, a logic flaw in the Linux kernel’s __ptrace_may_access() function that perm…
IPAD AIR 6 PANIC FULL/KERNEL PANIC- any ways to save it?
Built a bare-metal Rust OS with runtime-programmable kernel behavior - AxiomOS
A large set of stable kernel updates
The 7.0.10, 6.18.33, 6.12.91, 6.6.141, 6.1.174, 5.15.208, and 5.10.257 stable kernel updates ha [...]…
„Rust is gonna save the Linux kernel." – GKH
<img src="https://corrode.dev/podcast/s06e04-……
Modulejail: Proactively shrink a Linux host's kernel-module attack surface
Proactively shrink a Linux host's kernel-module attack surface by blacklisting every module not currently in use. - jnuyens/modulejail…