devm_kzalloc() has been introduced more than 15 years ago and has
steadily grown in usage through the kernel sources (more than 6000 calls
and counting). While it has helped lowering the number of memory leaks,
it is not the magic tool that many seem to think it is.
The devres family of functions tie the lifetime of the resources they
allocate to the lifetime of a struct device bind to...
The development community has put a lot of work into the kernel's documentation directory in recent years, with visible results. But the kernel's documentation still falls far short of the standard set by many other projects, and there is a great deal of "tribal knowledge" in our community that is not set down. In this talk, the kernel documentation maintainer will look at the successes and...
The effort to add Rust support to the kernel is ongoing. There has been progress in different areas during the last year, and there are several topics that could benefit from discussion:
-
Dividing the
kernelcrate into pieces, dependency management between internal crates, writing crates in the rest of the kernel tree, etc. -
Whether to allow dependencies on external crates and...
The maple tree is a kernel data structure designed to handle ranges. Originally developed to track VMAs but found new users before inclusion in mainline, the tree has many uses outside of the MM subsystem. I would like to talk about the current use cases that have arose and find out about any other uses that could be integrated into future plans.
