Vue normale
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 23, 2024
[$] Supporting larger block sizes in filesystems
[$] The path to deprecating SPARSEMEM
[$] Two sessions on CXL memory
[$] Documenting page flags by committee
[$] Merging msharefs
[$] Toward the unification of hugetlbfs
[$] The KeePassXC kerfuffle
KeePassXC is an open-source (GPLv3), cross-platform password manager with local-only data storage. The project comes with a number of build options that can be used to toggle optional features, such as browser integration and password database sharing. However, controversy ensued when Debian Developer Julian Klode decided to make use of these compile flags to disable these features to improve security in the keepassxc package uploaded to Debian unstable for the upcoming Debian 13 ("Trixie") release.
[$] The interaction between memory reclaim and RCU
Alpine Linux 3.20.0 released
Version 3.20.0 of the Alpine Linux distribution has been released with initial support for 64-bit RISC-V. Other important changes include updates to GNOME 46, KDE Plasma 6, and replacing Redis with Valkey due to Redis's adoption of a non-free license model. See the release notes for more on this release.
[$] Faster page faults with RCU-protected VMA walks
Security updates for Wednesday
[$] Virtual machine scheduling with BPF
Vineeth Pillai gave a remote talk at the 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit explaining how BPF could be used to improve the performance of virtual machines (VMs). Pillai has a patch set designed to let guest and host machines share scheduling information in order to eliminate some of the overhead of running in a VM. The assembled developers had several comments on the design, but seemed overall to approve of the prospect.
[$] Another try for address-space isolation
[$] Memory-allocation profiling for the kernel
AlmaLinux forms engineering steering committee
The AlmaLinux project has announced the formation of the AlmaLinux Engineering Steering Committee (ALESCo):
[It] is dedicated to guiding the technical direction of the AlmaLinux distribution on a day-to-day basis within the guidelines set forth by the board, ensuring its robustness, reliability, sustainability, and relevance in the open-source ecosystem. ALESCo will work collaboratively with, and oversee relevant technical-focused Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to achieve these goals. It is "air traffic control" for engineering matters.
The initial members of ALESCo appointed by the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board are Andrew Lukoshko, Ben Thomas, Cody Robertson, Elkhan Mammadli, Jonathan Wright, and Neal Gompa. The AlmaLinux Wiki has more information on the committee's activities and how to get involved.