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[$] BPF, continuous testing, and stable kernels
Ihor Solodrai and Shung-Hsi Yu wrapped up the BPF track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit with a pair of sessions related to testing. Solodr [...]
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[$] BPF, continuous testing, and stable kernels
Ihor Solodrai and Shung-Hsi Yu wrapped up the BPF track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit with a pair of sessions related to testing. Solodr [...]
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[$] Even more formal verification for BPF
BPF offers useful safety guarantees, but Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi wants BPF programs to be even safer. At the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, he [...]
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[$] Even more formal verification for BPF
BPF offers useful safety guarantees, but Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi wants BPF programs to be even safer. At the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, he [...]
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[$] Examining other network namespaces using BPF
Jordan Rife's work involves writing BPF programs for Cilium that interface with Kubernetes networking. As part of that work, he wants to enable BPF programs with appropriate perm [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1085896/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Examining other network namespaces using BPF
Jordan Rife's work involves writing BPF programs for Cilium that interface with Kubernetes networking. As part of that work, he wants to enable BPF programs with appropriate perm [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1085896/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Debugging information for inlined functions
BPF programs use BPF type format (BTF) debugging information in order to determine how to interact with functions in the kernel. Specifically, tracing a kernel function involves f [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1083985/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Debugging information for inlined functions
BPF programs use BPF type format (BTF) debugging information in order to determine how to interact with functions in the kernel. Specifically, tracing a kernel function involves f [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1083985/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Attaching programs to multiple tracepoints
Tracepoints in the kernel are useful for a variety of purposes: debugging, active monitoring, and performance measurements, among other things. Previously, any given BPF program co [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1082948/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Attaching programs to multiple tracepoints
Tracepoints in the kernel are useful for a variety of purposes: debugging, active monitoring, and performance measurements, among other things. Previously, any given BPF program co [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1082948/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Securing BPF LSMs against tampering
Since 2020, BPF programs have been able to act as Linux security modules (LSMs). Several projects, including systemd, have been working to use that capability to provide more secu [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1082111/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Gentoo #systemd #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Securing BPF LSMs against tampering
Since 2020, BPF programs have been able to act as Linux security modules (LSMs). Several projects, including systemd, have been working to use that capability to provide more secu [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1082111/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Gentoo #systemd #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Shielding running kernels against exploits with BPF
Cisco has some unusual challenges when it comes to deploying security patches across the company's many devices running custom kernels. John Fastabend spoke about his work preventi [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1081546/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Rust #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Shielding running kernels against exploits with BPF
Cisco has some unusual challenges when it comes to deploying security patches across the company's many devices running custom kernels. John Fastabend spoke about his work preventi [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1081546/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Rust #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Faster RCUs and lockless memory allocation
Puranjay Mohan shared some of the work he's been doing recently on improving the performance of read-copy-update (RCU) at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, a [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1081009/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Faster RCUs and lockless memory allocation
Puranjay Mohan shared some of the work he's been doing recently on improving the performance of read-copy-update (RCU) at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, a [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1081009/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Efficient access to local storage for BPF programs
When a BPF program is used to filter or redirect packets in the networking subsystem, the program will often want to associate data with each packet as it moves through the kernel. [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1078968/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Efficient access to local storage for BPF programs
When a BPF program is used to filter or redirect packets in the networking subsystem, the program will often want to associate data with each packet as it moves through the kernel. [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1078968/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] A helper library for BPF arenas
BPF arenas are areas of memory (potentially shared with user space) where programs have free reign to build their own data structures, unburdened by the verifier's bounds checks. M [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1078526/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #GCC #Clang #Git #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] A helper library for BPF arenas
BPF arenas are areas of memory (potentially shared with user space) where programs have free reign to build their own data structures, unburdened by the verifier's bounds checks. M [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1078526/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #GCC #Clang #Git #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Suspending and resuming BPF programs
BPF programs can be used to extend many aspects the Linux kernel, but BPF programs must run to completion in the same context that they began. Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi is working on [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1076210/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Rust #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Suspending and resuming BPF programs
BPF programs can be used to extend many aspects the Linux kernel, but BPF programs must run to completion in the same context that they began. Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi is working on [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1076210/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Rust #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] BPF loop verification with scalar evolution
The BPF verifier has, in the course of wrestling with the difficult problem of statically analyzing loops, grown special support for many kinds of loops over its history, but its f [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1076121/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #GCC #LLVM #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] BPF loop verification with scalar evolution
The BPF verifier has, in the course of wrestling with the difficult problem of statically analyzing loops, grown special support for many kinds of loops over its history, but its f [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1076121/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #GCC #LLVM #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Representing the true signatures of kernel functions
Optimizing compilers can, under some circumstances, infer when a parameter to a function is not needed, and remove it. This is all well and good until the kernel's tracing or BPF s [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1073762/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #GCC #Clang #Rust #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Representing the true signatures of kernel functions
Optimizing compilers can, under some circumstances, infer when a parameter to a function is not needed, and remove it. This is all well and good until the kernel's tracing or BPF s [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1073762/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #GCC #Clang #Rust #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond
José Marchesi and the GCC-BPF developers opened the BPF track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management, and BPF Summit with a 90-minute summary of what has changed [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1071973/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Gentoo #GCC #LLVM #Clang #systemd #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond
José Marchesi and the GCC-BPF developers opened the BPF track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management, and BPF Summit with a 90-minute summary of what has changed [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1071973/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Gentoo #GCC #LLVM #Clang #systemd #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Reconsidering the multi-generational LRU
The multi-generational LRU (MGLRU) is an alternative memory-management algorithm that was merged for the 6.1 kernel in late 2022. It brought a promise of much-improved performance [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1060967/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Android #Git #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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[$] Reconsidering the multi-generational LRU
The multi-generational LRU (MGLRU) is an alternative memory-management algorithm that was merged for the 6.1 kernel in late 2022. It brought a promise of much-improved performance [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1060967/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Android #Git #BPF #LSFMMBPF
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@brauner/115871045863565861
Be sure to request an invite to #lsfmmbpf 2026 in Zagreb, Croatia!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@brauner/115871045863565861
Be sure to request an invite to #lsfmmbpf 2026 in Zagreb, Croatia!
