The untold story of BPF

This talk will uncover for the first time the true origin of ‘Extended Berkley Packet Filter’. It would be fascinating for aspiring and expert open source developers to discover BPF’s path into one of the most sophisticated and challenging parts of software stack....

Trust and the Linux development model

In 2020, the University of Minnesota was found to have submitted a number of hypocrite commits to the Linux kernel development community in an attempt to prove that the kernel development model was insecure. Because of this, the University was banned from future...

Powerful and Programmable Kernel Debugging with drgn

Kernel bugs that sneak past testing into production tend to be tricky, convoluted, and hard to reproduce. When investigating such bugs, you often want to explore various data structures, look for patterns, and check your assumptions. After falling victim to some...