[$] Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more

The kernel's swap subsystem is charged with managing anonymous pages in secondary storage when those pages are (hopefully) not being used and the memory they occupy is needed elsew [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1072657/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #RedHat #BPF

Security updates for Monday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1073356/ #LWN #Linux #security

Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc4

https://lwn.net/Articles/1073193/ #LWN #Linux #kernel

RIP Peter G. Neuman

https://lwn.net/Articles/1073186/ #LWN #Linux

Some weekend stable kernel updates

https://lwn.net/Articles/1073161/ #LWN #Linux #kernel

So I'm poking around with #AuditD, also swearing mildly at 'msg=' being used twice on a line which breaks trivial parsing, when I realised I haven't seen a *good* deep dive on on it for a while. The Red Hat docs [1] cover the basics, while the GH linux-audit repos cover the tech details, but no recent presentations

I wonder if @corbet could persuade someone to write an article for #LWN?

[1] https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/10/html/risk_reduction_and_recovery_operations/auditing-the-system

[$] Controlling memory-management with BPF

Roman Gushchin began his session in the memory-management track of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit by saying that the community has seen a lot [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1072538/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #systemd #BPF

Seven new stable kernels with patches for CVE-2026-46333

https://lwn.net/Articles/1073060/ #LWN #Linux #kernel

[$] HugeTLB preservation over live update

Recent times have seen a lot of effort put into the implementation of the kexec handover and live update orchestrator features in the Linux kernel. But that work is not yet comple [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1072531/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #BPF

Security updates for Friday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1073059/ #LWN #Linux #security