Meet the 2026 Kernel Recipes mascot.

Curious, optimistic, and very much in tune with the world around it.

This year, our little penguin is thinking beyond code. From sustainability to responsible tech, it reflects values that have always been close to the open source community.

With the devastating wildfires affecting France this summer, it also reminds us that technology doesn't exist in a vacuum. The challenges we face are shared—and so is the responsibility to build a better future.

I will present how to use DAMON in a right way with known wrong usages at Open Source Summit Europe in Prague. If DAMON disappointed you before, this will hopefully help you better understanding it.

[1] https://sched.co/2RaXh

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@KernelRecipes I'm honored this year again, to have a session [1] at Kernel Recipes. Last year I introduced [2] how we can monitor data accesses. This year I will introduce how you can make kernel to self-drive the information for saving memory.

[1] https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2026/schedule/damos-the-smart-cruise-control-for-ram/
[2] https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2025/schedule/overcoming-observer-effects-in-memory-management-with-damon/

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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@KernelRecipes/116776918935714405

Registrations for Kernel Recipes 2026 are OPEN! Join us September 21-23 for three days of deep-dive kernel talks, great conversations with fellow kernel folks, and way too much coffee

This year's godfather: @corbet, who's put incredible work into shaping this year's agenda. Huge thanks, Jon.

You are a student? Drop us an email, we've got a reduced rate for you.

Speakers: https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2026/speakers/
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We’re pleased to announce Linux Plumbers Conference registration is now open. Please see our attend page for details.

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Linux Plumbers Conference 2026 registration open

https://lwn.net/Articles/1084938/ #LWN #Linux #LPC

Mourning Dan Williams

https://lwn.net/Articles/1084545/ #LWN #Linux #kernel

🔥So many Linux CVEs! To make them scarier, I asked my favorite LLM to come up with names. As you know, only vulnerabilities with a decent name and a URL are serious. ;-)

https://git.infradead.org/~rw/cvenames-2026-07-19.html

On this day 18 years ago, ftrace entered mainline! https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e18425a0abc

We are on the track [1]. Transitioning DAMON from" data access (and attributes) monitor" to "data attributes monitor" is the major changes for the ongoing DAMON extension project. The project is for per-CPUs/threads/reads/writes monitoring with AMD IBS-like h/w features. The patch series for that has been merged into mm-new today.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/20260711004808.32620-1-sj@kernel.org/

#linux #kernel #damon

And the video is up: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/webinars/my-life-as-a-linux-kernel-developer-and-maintainer-with-paul-e.-mckenney?hsLang=en

Linux 7.2-rc1 is released. Hence I posted DAMON newsletter [1] for the 7.2-rc1 cycle.

TLDR: The last development cycle for DAMON was the busiest cycle of its mainline history (~5 years, since 2021 September). 12 Authors landed 106 DAMON patches for a number of changes including 7 new features on the mainline. A roadmap for extending DAMON to utilize AMD IBS, Intel PEBS like h/w features and do per-CPUs/threads/reads/writes monitoring is made.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/20260628211904.94361-1-sj@kernel.org

DAMON project blog got [1] its first and grateful post contribution for TLB flush policy, which made many people confused. You can now read the contributed post [2] from the blog. This will help more people better use DAMON and get real wins.

[1] https://github.com/damonitor/damonitor.github.io/pull/2
[2] https://damonitor.github.io/posts/tlb_flush_policy/

#linux #kernel #damon #blog #tlb

As every year, Kernel Recipes is running its charity auctions!

This year, we wanted to shine again a spotlight on the work of the @conservancy. @bkuhn will be speaking on the topic on September 22nd, right before the auctions kick off.

Registration for the conference is now open: https://www.billetweb.fr/kernel-recipes-2026

All Microconferences have been accepted for Linux Plumbers. If you have something to discuss, go ahead and submit a topic to your favorite MC!

https://lpc.events/blog/current/index.php/2026/06/01/all-microconferences-have-now-been-accepted/

Andrew Morton's 2004 OLS keynote

https://lwn.net/Articles/1070746/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Debian #Gentoo #BPF

Multiple people including myself started their own projects for extending DAMON to support multiple access check primitives. To reduce unnecessarily duplicated efforts, I just shared a roadmap [1]. I hope this to help making all stakeholders winners, or at least reduce confusions.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/20260525225208.1179-1-sj@kernel.org/

#linux #kernel #damon

Device and specific purpose memory microconf at LPC 2026 is also announed with the CFP opening: https://lore.kernel.org/20260519135953.v74dnpyi4i62diyr@offworld

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RE: https://social.kernel.org/objects/d94826a3-cac8-46de-accc-723ab844567d

Kernel memory management microconf at LPC 2026 is announced with the opening of CFP: https://lore.kernel.org/e3dc73df-0032-4e71-ab80-21b29c6efb46@kernel.org

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