[$] Separating memory descriptors from struct page

The kernel's memory-management subsystem is currently partway through a multi-year project to replace the page structure (which represents a page of physical memory) with memory de [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1073425/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #XFS #BPF

[$] Development statistics for the 7.0 kernel

Linus Torvalds released the 7.0 kernel as expected on April 12, ending a relatively busy development cycle. The 7.0 release brings a large number of interesting changes; see the L [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1066723/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #SUSE #RedHat #XFS

The 7.0 kernel has been released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1067279/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Rust #Git #XFS #io_uring

[$] Removing read-only transparent huge pages for the page cache

Things do not always go the way kernel developers think they will. When the kernel gained support for the creation of read-only transparent huge pages for the page cache in 2019, [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1066582/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #XFS #BPF

[$] Ubuntu's GRUBby plans

GNU GRUB 2, mostly just referred to as GRUB these days, is the most widely used boot loader for x86_64 Linux systems. It supports reading from a vast selection of filesystems, hand [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1065420/ #LWN #Linux #Debian #systemd #XFS

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