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Linux's Perf Tools Prepares For Intel Alder Lake, Adds New AMD Zen 3 Events

Phoronix - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 23:27
Linux's perf tooling for dealing with hardware performance counters and associated monitoring has seen a number of nice updates for the Linux 5.13 kernel cycle...

Apache OpenOffice Vulnerable To One-Click Code Execution

Phoronix - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 21:10
If you are still relying on Apache OpenOffice in 2021 you might want to really make it a goal this year to transition to the much more featureful LibreOffice, but in any case you'll want to move at least to OpenOffice 4.1.10...

A Fresh Take On Speculative Page Faulting Aims For The Mainline Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 19:30
Over the years there have been a number of rounds of patches published for speculative page faulting. The goal has been to support user-space page-faults without holding the memory management semaphores and to ultimately allow for better performance especially with threaded workloads. A fresh take on the speculative page faulting (SPF) functionality was recently volleyed on the kernel mailing list...

Mesa Fixes Up The Recent L3 Cache Pinning Rework

Phoronix - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 18:26
Going on for a few years now has been some Mesa optimizations for AMD Ryzen CPUs and in particular L3 cache optimizations. There is now a fix to re-enable this support after it was mistakenly broken earlier this year...

F2FS Adds New Mount Options With Linux 5.13, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 18:07
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates for Linux 5.13 have been submitted in providing the latest features for this flash-optimized file-system...

Taiwins 0.3 Released As Newest Wayland Compositor Release

Phoronix - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 15:30
Introduced last year was Taiwins as a compact Wayland compositor. While early on it began using Sway's WLROOTS library, it ended up writing its own Wayland compositor library (libtaiwins) and recently hit its version 0.3 milestone...

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