Over the past few years, the kernel has grown a modern, sophisticated memory model which is exposed directly to the developer and provides portable concurrency primitives across the 20+ architectures supported by mainline. These low-level primitives have been used to...
The French Network and Information Security Agency (ANSSI) just declassified and released the sources of its long-time internal hardened Linux distribution: CLIP OS. The project’s main goal is to build an operating system able to handle confidential information at...
The Coccinelle C-program matching and transformation tool was first released in 2008 to facilitate specification and automation in the evolution of Linux kernel code. The novel contribution of Coccinelle is to allow software developers to write code manipulation rules...
The CPU idle loop is the piece of code executed by logical CPUs if they have no tasks to run. If the CPU supports idle states allowing it to draw less power while not executing any instructions, the idle loop invokes a CPU idle governor to select the most suitable...
Self learning is underrated in the modern era of education. While kernel being the heart of an operating system, traditional universities [in India] are still far away from teaching anything more than the definition of Linux Kernel. The talk will mostly focus on my...
