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Linux 6.12 Adds A Kernel Stack Usage Histogram To Help With Optimizations

Phoronix - Tue, 09/24/2024 - 20:57
Merged as part of the memory management "MM" changes for the Linux 6.12 kernel is a kernel stack usage histogram to help developers in better optimizing the kernel stack sizes and minimizing memory waste...

Intel LPSS Driver Adds Panther Lake Support In Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Tue, 09/24/2024 - 19:07
Going along with other early Linux kernel driver additions for enabling Panther Lake, the intel-lpss driver in Linux 6.12 has made its device ID additions for supporting Panther Lake H and Panther Lake P processors...

Intel's LPMD "Low Power Mode Daemon" Now Identifies As The "Energy Optimizer"

Phoronix - Tue, 09/24/2024 - 18:43
The Intel LPMD open-source project is a user-space daemon for optimizing active idle power handling on Linux and can be useful particularly for modern Intel Core hybrid processors. LPMD is short for the "Low Power Mode Daemon" while with today's v0.0.7 release it's now re-identified itself as the "Energy Optimizer" instead...

Landlock Sandboxing Now Supports More Controls Around Unix Sockets

Phoronix - Tue, 09/24/2024 - 18:32
Landlock as the Linux security module for unprivileged access control handling is adding new controls around Unix socket handling with the Linux 6.12 kernel...

Dell-WMI-Sysman Linux Driver Being Extended For Alienware Systems

Phoronix - Tue, 09/24/2024 - 18:17
The Dell-WMI-Sysman driver on Linux allows for managing BIOS settings from within Linux using sysfs. This dell-wmi-sysman kernel driver supports most Dell platforms from 2018 and newer for convenient BIOS management...

F2FS With Linux 6.12 Converts I/O Paths To Use Folios, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 09/24/2024 - 18:11
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.12 merge window...

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