It took a long time and over 60 articles but, at @lwn, we have finally managed to complete our reporting from the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. If you want to know what is going on in those core parts of the kernel, this is the place to look.

We've put together an EPUB version of the whole set as well — good bedtime reading!

https://lwn.net/Articles/1026338/

In case you want to join my company (#SUSE), we're looking for an #infrastructure engineer!
#FediHire
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How does the kernel manage LRU lists and perform memory reclaim when memory cgroup feature is enabled? I wrote an article to answer that question.

Memory Cgroup Naturalization in the Linux Kernel v3.3
https://vmscan.org/memory-cgroup-naturalization-in-the-linux-kernel-v33

In the early days, memory cgroup was “bolted onto” the memory management subsystem, using a double-LRU scheme: each page was linked to both global and per-memcg lists—leading to a moderate memory overhead and complicating reclaim logic.

Linux v3.3 changed that. Memory cgroups were fully integrated into the MM core, global LRU lists were removed on memcg-enabled systems, and global reclaim began walking memcg hierarchy and scanning the per-memcg LRU lists, scanning each group in proportion to its memory usage.

This reduced memory overhead and simplified the reclaim code. More details in the article!

Linux 6.15 Released With Continued Rust Integration, Bcachefs Stabilizing

As anticipated the Linux 6.15 kernel is out today in stable form. Linux 6.15 brings a lot of new hardware support, security improvements, various other kernel innovations, and more...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-Released

i hope the nvidia driver doesn't crash

then: "when I grow up I'll be programming computers"
now: "i vibepirated code i wrote"

花桃の里の空に昇る天の川🌸🌌✨

#tokyocameraclub #東京カメラ部 #japan #花桃の里

Recently started learning how memory cgroup in the Linux kernel works, so started writing articles about it. The first posting for my English blog vmscan.org!

A brief look at memory cgroup controller introduced in the Linux kernel v2.6.25.
https://vmscan.org/a-brief-look-at-memory-cgroup-controller-introduced-in-linux-kernel-v2625

I have been spending seven hours every Saturday studying the Linux kernel with a study group for years. It's been fun, but over time, I started to feel like I wasn’t spending my time wisely. I have to accept the fact that I don’t have enough time to regularly look at anything outside of MM.

I tried GPT-o3 (which uses 'advanced reasoning') to review slab patches to see if it works, and it generated many false comments. :P Less advanced than I expected.

Spot on advice for any field.

For gym motivation is useless, it's all discipline, your test is on a day when you 100% hate it and want to do ANYTHING ELSE.

Music is my hobby but barely done any, because it is work really, a different kind, but if you want to get anywhere with it, you have to have the same discipline.

But I plan to apply the same gym-like discipline to that to get what I want out of it.

And of course this goes for kernel work too, obviously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pw1tmGh3dk

Blogging time after a long time.
/me again realizes that things not documented are quickly reclaimed from memory.

Oh, I didn't know a CVE can be assigned to my bug fix without me requesting or realizing it. I thought (despite not being a security expert) it was not a 'fun' bug to exploit for attackers.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21860

Well well, look what the cat dragged in
https://nostarch.com/linux-memory-manager

Very happy to announce my book The Linux Memory Manager is now available to pre-order at

https://nostarch.com/linux-memory-manager

It's a comprehensive 1,300 page exploration of how memory functions in Linux that goes into great depth on the subject, and is the first book of its kind for 20 years :)

This book serves as a guiding light in navigating the increasingly complex memory management subsystem. A must-have book if you're interested in memory management!

I'mq glad to see the author's long effort finally paying off. Finally available for preorder 👏.

Already ordered one!

https://fosstodon.org/@ljs/114004492112728241

Forbes is warning us that Android phones are under severe risk due to a kernel vulnerability:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/02/03/google-warns-all-android-users-your-phone-is-now-at-risk/

This comes from Google's Android security bulletin for February:

https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2025-02-01

...which informs us that "There are indications that CVE-2024-53104 may be under limited, targeted exploitation". The vulnerability in question, though, is CVE-2024-53104:

https://lwn.net/ml/all/2024120232-CVE-2024-53104-d781@gregkh

...which is in the uvcvideo camera driver. Either I'm missing something badly, or the only way to exploit this would be to plug a malicious camera device into the phone. I can see why they would want to fix this, but I'm not sure it's a red-alert situation for most of us?

Pretty much every serious photographer here tries to capture photos of the #volcano and the #northernlights together. Sometimes, they succeed quite well ;) Photos from Wioleta Gorecka, taken near Reykjanesvíti.

#Iceland #Eruption