cgroup has seen a lot of activities recently especially with the v2 effort. This talk goes over the v2 interface and discusses the recent developments and what’s to come in...
Desktop and laptop PCs designed to run Windows will now only run a boot loader signed by Microsoft or by their manufacturer, unless manually reconfigured. Several Linux distributions now include the necessary chain of signed code, but for various reasons Debian...
I have always wondered what happens when we enter the kernel from userspace: what preparations does the hardware meet when the userspace to kernel space switch instructions are executed and back, and what does the kernel do when it executes a system call. There are...
The Linux kernel features an extensive array of, to put it kindly, somewhat disorganized documentation. A significant effort is underway to make things better, though. This talk will review the state of kernel documentation, cover the changes that are being made...
