Mastodawn

After 25+ years of kernel development, I was finally forced to touch `mm/` and it was due to a nommu "issue":
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2026042334-acutely-unadorned-e05c@gregkh/

As @axboe said the other day, we aren't expecting a box of chocolates:

https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

but these past weeks have made me feel like someone owes a few of us kernel developers a bunch of whisky at the very least...

[PATCH] mm/gup: honour FOLL_PIN in NOMMU __get_user_pages_locked() - Greg Kroah-Hartman

jelly Apr 16

Tweakers Apr 16

KPN stopt per 1 juli met de XS4ALL Homepages. Dit zijn websites die door XS4ALL-klanten zijn opgezet. Het was al jaren niet meer mogelijk om een nieuwe website op te zetten. De Koninklijke Bibliotheek heeft tienduizenden van deze sites gearchiveerd. Die collectie is inmiddels Unesco-werelderfgoed. https://tweakers.net/nieuws/246880/kpn-haalt-decennia-oude-xs4all-homepagewebsites-van-klanten-in-juli-offline.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Tweakers

KPN haalt decennia oude XS4ALL-homepagewebsites van klanten in juli offline

Tweakers

jelly Apr 16

mjw Apr 16

elfutils 0.195 released

https://inbox.sourceware.org/elfutils-devel/CAJDtP-Qok4ViNzvrr28WgkCCqrFH0iAZStiD8C7nbpDhrPzLWA@mail.gmail.com

ELFUTILS 0.195 "Handwritten" - https://elfutils.org/

A new release of elfutils is available at:
ftp://sourceware.org/pub/elfutils/0.195/
or https://sourceware.org/elfutils/ftp/0.195/

Visit us on the Libera.Chat irc channel #elfutils

elfutils 0.195 released - Aaron Merey

jelly Apr 16

Valentin David Apr 15

GNOME OS's systemd-repart built DVD booting under 10 minutes on real hardware. Soon available in systemd 261! https://youtu.be/AWBVCl0RatU #dvd #asmr #gnomeos #systemd #retrocomputing #uefi #speedrun

GNOME OS booting on from a DVD under 10 minutes

YouTube

jelly Apr 9

Arch Linux

Apr 8

[arch-dev-public] RFC: Boot standardization and bootchain package

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/FU3N7Z25EJ4S26Z5M23DZM24OXNB56W2/

#Linux #ArchLinux

RFC: Boot standardization and bootchain package - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

jelly Apr 6

Black Valley Apr 5

Tickets for Black Valley just dropped! We hope to see as many of your beautiful faces as possible in July — so head on over and get yours!

Remember: If you want the t-shirt you have to get it now. We only print as many as are ordered. :)

https://fienta.com/black-valley-2026/

#ticket #tickets #BlackValley2026 #Demoscene #DemoParty #Norway

Black Valley 2026

Fri 10. July at 16:00 - Sun 12. July at 12:00

Fienta

jelly Apr 5

Christine Lemmer-Webber Apr 4

OpenClaw is averaging 1.8 CVEs *PER DAY* https://days-since-openclaw-cve.com/

That's... wow. New high score!

OpenClaw CVE Tracker — Intruder

Tracking days since the last OpenClaw CVE, because apparently that's a full-time job.

jelly Apr 4

☃️karolherbst☃️Apr 3

your brain whenever you are working on a branch that contains confidential information that you aren't allowed to publish: "git push is the command you are looking for, just push it like you always do. You work on stuff, and then you push. And then also click on the link to create that MR."

jelly Mar 26

ljs Mar 26

Seems we have confirmation this 'Josh Law' guy is an openclaw bot - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/ae7dc[email protected]/

As I said in https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1e982055-[email protected]/ :

"I feel that LLMs are not like any other tools but in fact represent
something entirely new in that you can end-to-end send patches using this
tooling with little to no knowledge and the asymmetry between maintainer
resource and the possible slurry of submissions that might arise makes this
very significantly different.

I know Linus had the cute interpretation of it 'just being another tool'
but never before have people been able to do this."

Of course Linus slapped me down with his 'just more tooling' take which was gleefully reported on by the press (e.g. https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/08/linus_versus_llms_ai_slop_docs/ )

I'll let you decide whether these are 'just like any other tool' or not.

BTW 'Josh Law' more than doubled his sent emails in a week or 2 to 370+.

Of course I'm sure coccinelle has that feature and I just wasn't aware 👀

Re: [PATCH] mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based NUMA memory tiering module - Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)

jelly Mar 25

Chris Down Mar 24

Compressed swap is a common lever to improve memory density, but there's a lot of confusion about how to best use it out there, and many people treat zram/zswap as two flavours of the same thing when they are really far more nuanced.

So what works, what doesn't, and why? In this article I go over the tradeoffs, the work we are doing upstream, and a little about what the future looks like. I am, as always, happy to answer questions :-)

https://chrisdown.name/2026/03/24/zswap-vs-zram-when-to-use-what.html

Debunking zswap and zram myths

zswap and zram are fundamentally different approaches with different philosophies. If in doubt, use zswap.