Name: Linux Plumbers Conference 2025
Start: 2025-12-11T09:00:00+09:00
End: 2025-12-13T23:30:00+09:00
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Linux Plumbers Conference 2025

from Thursday, 11 December 2025 (09:00) to Saturday, 13 December 2025 (23:30)

Monday, 8 December 2025
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Wednesday, 10 December 2025
Thursday, 11 December 2025
10:00 Build Systems MC
10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Hall B2"
Contributions

10:00 Build System Analysis for Kernel Development and Customization - Alejandro Hernandez Samaniego (Microsoft)

10:30 Debian Official Debug Kernel for All? - Yunseong Kim (Ericsson) seonghee jin (Georgia Institute of Technology)

11:00 Enabling UEFI Secure Boot Across Modern Build Systems - Frank Vasquez (OpenEmbedded)

12:00 One Config to Rule Them All: From systemd to Reliable Embedded Upgrades - Behan Webster (Linaro)

12:30 OpenWrt (One) build system: lessons in *all* the compliance and how to broadly apply them - Denver Gingerich (Software Freedom Conservancy)

13:00 Improving Build Time SBoMs - Joshua Watt (Garmin)
Device and Specific Purpose Memory MC
10:00 - 13:35
Room: "Hall B1"
Contributions

10:00 Introduction and Kickoff - Adam Manzanares (Samsung Electronics) Dan Williams (Intel)

10:05 To online or not to online CXL memory - Hannes Reinecke (SUSE Labs)

10:35 CXL HDM-DB support for Linux - Davidlohr Bueso (Samsung Semiconductor)

11:05 Unifying sources of page hotness information - Bharata Bhasker Rao (AMD)

12:00 Kernel CXL Cache (safe) support - Alejandro Lucero (AMD)

12:20 “Parallel Paths to High-Bandwidth Memory for ML/AI: Specific Purpose Memory vs. Driver‑Managed Approaches” - Rajneesh Bhardwaj (AMD)

12:40 DAMON-based Pages Migration for {C,G,X}PU [un]attached NUMA nodes - SeongJae Park

13:00 Protected DMAbufs and its dynamic memory assignment woes - Sumit Garg

13:20 Famfs Update: Status, DAX Challenges & Use Cases - John Groves (Micron)
Kernel Summit Track
10:00 - 18:30
Room: "Main Hall B"
Contributions

10:00 Kernel documentation: update and future directions - Jonathan Corbet (Linux Plumbers Conference)

10:45 Moving kernel swapping infrastructure to Rust - Vitaly Wool

12:00 Highmem deprecation planning - Arnd Bergmann (Linaro)

12:45 drm and cgroup memory management - two great tastes - David Airlie

15:00 Re-think of richACLs in AI/LLM era - Coly Li (fnnas.com)

15:45 Revocable: a mechanism for preventing "classic" use-after-free bugs - Tzung-Bi Shih

17:00 News from PREEMPT_RT - Sebastian Siewior
LPC Refereed Track: Refereed Track
Refereed Track
10:00 - 18:30
Room: "Hall A1"
Contributions

10:00 KernelSBOM: Reconstructing Linux Kernel Builds into Trusted SPDX Bills of Materials - Maximilian Huber

10:45 Multikernel Architecture: Kernel-to-Kernel Isolation and Resource Management - Cong Wang

12:00 Rust for Linux - Miguel Ojeda

12:45 Tyr: a new Rust GPU driver - Alice Ryhl (Google) Daniel Almeida (Collabora)

15:00 RV and the deadline scheduler: how to verify your subsystem at runtime - Gabriele Monaco (Red Hat Inc.) Juri Lelli (Red Hat)

15:45 Path Safety in the Trenches - Aleksa Sarai (SUSE LLC)

17:00 Adding Testable Code Specifications in the Linux Kernel - Chuck Wolber Gabriele Paoloni (Red Hat) Kate Stewart (Linux Foundation)

17:45 Automating Linux Kernel Documentation for Safety-Critical Compliance through Large Language Models - Grant Stensland (VES LLC) Justin Stanley (VES LLC) Morgan Ricks (VES LLC) Toby Hilliard (VES LLC) Tom Ice (VES LLC)
Linux System Monitoring and Observability MC
10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Hall B3/B4"
Contributions

10:00 Extending Flamegraphs for Multi-Dimensional Performance Analysis - Gavin Guo

10:20 Methodology and Practice in Observing Kernel Networking - Jason Xing (Tencent)

10:40 Proactive and crash-time data collection on Steam Deck - Guilherme G. Piccoli (Igalia)

11:00 From Tool To ToolBox: How bpftrace is evolving to become more composable and expressive - Adin Scannell Jordan Rome

11:20 Reading memcg stats more efficiently - JP Kobryn (Meta)

11:50 Actionable Data Access Monitoring Output Data and Format - SeongJae Park

12:10 Module Error Injection with eBPF - Daniel Gomez

12:30 Scaling Kernel Production Monitoring @ Meta - Vlad Poenaru (Meta)

12:50 Improving page_owner for profiling and monitoring memory usage per allocation stack trace - Mauricio Faria de Oliveira (Igalia)

13:10 Guider: Lightweight Real-Time Performance & Fault Monitoring Framework for Embedded Linux Platforms - Peace Lee
Scheduler and Real-Time MC
10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Hall A2/3"
Contributions

10:00 Introduction to Scheduler and RT micro-conference - Vincent Guittot (Linaro)

10:02 Cache Aware Scheduling - Tim Chen (Intel) Yu Chen (Intel)

10:24 Rethinking Android's Priority Inheritance - Carlos Llamas

10:46 Enabling Push call back in Fair class - Vincent Guittot (Linaro)

11:08 Push based load-balancing for fair tasks - Prateek Nayak (AMD Inc.)

12:00 Runtime verification monitors for real-time - Nam Cao (Linutronix)

12:22 RV and real-time properties - Gabriele Monaco (Red Hat Inc.)

12:44 CPU Isolation and IPI interference - Valentin Schneider (Red Hat)

13:06 Paravirt Scheduling: Framework for better physical CPU utilization - Ilya Leoshkevich Shrikanth Hegde

13:28 Wrap up - Vincent Guittot (Linaro)
eBPF Track
10:00 - 18:30
Room: "Main Hall A"
Contributions

10:00 BPF Verifier Visualizer - Ihor Solodrai (Meta Platforms, Inc.) Jordan Rome

10:30 Making Sense of State Pruning - Mahé Tardy (Isovalent) Paul Chaignon (Isovalent)

11:00 Loops handling by BPF verifier and what should we do about it? - Eduard Zingerman

12:00 ePass: A Framework for Enhancing Flexibility and Runtime Safety of eBPF Programs - Yiming Xiang (University of Texas at Austin)

12:30 Fuzzing the Verifier with a Test Oracle - Paul Chaignon (Isovalent)

13:00 Introduction to eBPF Load-Acquire and Store-Release Instructions - Peilin Ye (Google LLC)

15:00 Discussion: What's next for BPF Signing - KP Singh

15:30 BpfJailer: eBPF based Mandatory Access Control - Liam Wisehart (Meta)

16:00 Tracking Files across the operating system using eBPF - Carl El Khoury

17:00 Kernel-Resident Regex and Jails: DFA-powered eBPF filtering and certificate-safe agent isolation at fleet scale - Justin Ngai (Meta)

17:30 Challenges with implementing in-kernel FQDN policies using eBPF - Hemanth Malla (Microsoft)

18:00 Implement simple local DNS server with BPF - Raman Shukhau
15:00 Embedded & Internet of Things MC
15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Hall B3/B4"
Contributions

15:00 Reducing Android Boot Times: Evaluating Proactive File Prefetching - Akilesh Kailash

15:30 Boot time optimization for embedded devices - Saravana Kannan

16:00 How to extract a bare metal flavor of code out of Zephyr to use in RTOS ? - Khasim Syed Mohammed (Texas Instruments)

17:00 Improving stability for TCPM using boards that are not self-powered - Sebastian Reichel (Collabora)

17:30 Fixing Clock Tree Propagation in the Common Clk Framework - Brian Masney (Red Hat)

18:00 Firmware ABI stability - Marek Vasut
Kernel Memory Management MC
15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Hall A2/3"
Contributions

15:00 Memory Allocation Profiling upcoming features - Sourav Panda (Google) Suren Baghdasaryan

15:15 Mempolicy is dead, long live memory policy! - Gregory Price (Meta)

15:30 CMA allocations fail due to pinned MOVABLE pages - Juan Yescas (Google) Kalesh Singh (Google)

15:45 Folio Restructuring for Huge Pages in guest_memfd - Ackerley Tng

16:00 Deprecating zone_reclaim_mode - Joshua Hahn (Meta)

16:15 Per-cgroup Swap Device Control - Chris Li (Google) YoungJun Park (LG Electronics)

17:00 type-based slab allocation: kmalloc_obj family - Kees Cook (Google)

17:15 Memory descriptors for DEVICE_PRIVATE memory - Alistair Popple

17:30 Decoupling Large Folios from Transparent Huge Pages - Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)

17:45 The life cycle of the mm_struct - Liam Howlett (Oracle)

18:00 Taming Zombie Cgroups: Should Reparenting Be Simple or Smart? - Harry Yoo (Oracle) Kamalesh Babulal (Oracle)
Toolchains MC
15:00 - 18:50
Room: "Hall B2"
Contributions

15:00 Security Features status update - Justin Stitt (Google) Kees Cook (Google)

15:20 Exciting new compiler flags for kernel security - Florent Revest (Google)

15:40 Distributed ThinLTO Build Support in Kbuild - Rong Xu (Google)

16:00 Adaptive futexes: spin if the owner is still running on another CPU - Steven Rostedt

17:00 Adding C library wrappers for all Linux syscalls - Carlos O'Donell (Red Hat)

17:20 Enforcing PI locks by default - Qais Yousef (Google)

17:40 GCC BPF and Linux kernel - Jose E. Marchesi (GNU Project, Oracle Inc.)

18:00 Challenges with Kernels built with LTO - Song Liu (Meta) Yonghong Song
18:30 Evening Event: Evening Event
Evening Event
18:30 - 21:30
Friday, 12 December 2025
09:00 LPC Refereed Track: Refereed Track
Refereed Track
09:00 - 18:30
Room: "Hall A1"
Contributions

09:00 TAB Q&A - Dan Williams (Intel) Dave Hansen Greg Kroah-Hartman Jonathan Corbet (Linux Plumbers Conference) Kees Cook (Google) Miguel Ojeda Sasha Levin Shuah Khan (The Linux Foundation) Steven Rostedt Theodore Ts'o (Google)

10:00 One year into the new KernelCI - Gustavo Padovan (Collabora)

10:45 More Effective Approach to Detecting Potential Deadlocks, DEPT(DEPendency Tracker) - Byungchul Park (SK hynix)

12:00 Userspace Assisted Scheduling via Sched QoS - John Stultz (Google) Qais Yousef (Google) Steven Rostedt Vincent Guittot (Linaro)

12:45 SFrame for Arm64 Reliable Stacktrace - Dylan Hatch Weinan Liu (Google)

15:00 TPMs and the Linux Kernel: unlocking a better path to hardware security - Ignat Korchagin (Cloudflare)

15:45 NVIDIA's Approach for Achieving ASIL B Qualified Linux - Bryan Huntsman (Senior Director, NVIDIA)

17:00 Page-level and Fleet-wide Data Access Monitoring for Meta - SeongJae Park

17:45 Enabling AMD 2D Hardware Acceleration for Video API and Applications - Solomon Chiu
10:00 Birds of a Feather (BoF)
10:00 - 18:30
Room: "Main Hall B"
Contributions

10:00 Towards Real-Time NVMe Monitoring (nvme-top) - Daniel Wagner (SUSE) Nilay Shroff (IBM)

10:45 Solving Zombie Cgroups - Simple Fix or Smart Solution? - Harry Yoo (Oracle) Kamalesh Babulal (Oracle)

12:00 Syzbot BoF: Open Discussion - Aleksandr Nogikh (Google) Alexander Potapenko (Google) Dmitry Vyukov (Google) Marco Elver (Google) Taras Madan

12:45 Kernel Sanitizers Office Hours - Aleksandr Nogikh (Google) Alexander Potapenko (Google) Dmitry Vyukov (Google) Kees Cook (Google) Marco Elver (Google)

15:00 32bit and-or noMMU Linux BoF - "Ruinland" ChuanTzu Tsai (Andes Technology) D.Jeff Dionne (Core Semiconductor) Geert Uytterhoeven (Glider bv) John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (FU Berlin) Rob Landley (ToyBox)

15:45 Agentic AI, confidential computing and attested TLS - Muhammad Usama Sardar (TU Dresden)

17:00 ARM Laptop BoF - Stefan Schmidt Vinod Koul

17:45 Kernel TEE subsystem BoF - Jens Wiklander Sumit Garg
Birds of a Feather (BoF): Birds of a Feather (BoF) (no A/V)
Birds of a Feather (BoF) (no A/V)
10:00 - 18:30
Room: "Meeting Room 1"
Contributions

10:00 Toward Mainline Linux Support for UALink AI Scale-UP Interconnect - Konstantin Sinyuk

10:45 BoF: memory fragmentation with LBS - Hannes Reinecke (SUSE Labs) Luis Chamberlain (Samsung)

12:00 Unified Linux GPU compute kernel driver - Luis Chamberlain (Samsung)

12:45 Let's talk about the GPL and Linux! - Karen Sandler (Software Freedom Conservancy)
Confidential Computing MC
10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Hall B2"
Contributions

10:00 Optimizing guest_memfd shared/private conversions - Ackerley Tng

10:30 Toward a standard device attestation token for device assignment - Mathieu Poirier (Linaro) Thomas Fossati (Linaro)

11:00 PCI device authentication & encryption - Alexey Kardashevskiy (AMD) Mathieu Poirier (Linaro)

12:00 Standardization of Attested TLS Protocols - Muhammad Usama Sardar (TU Dresden)

12:30 Discussion: TDISP, VM migration, and paravisors - John Starks (Microsoft)

12:55 A Linux Bus for SVSM Services: Build New, Reuse VIRTIO, or Both? - Stefano Garzarella (Red Hat)

13:15 Secure Interrupt delivery: Lessons Learned from Alternate Injection Enablement - Melody Wang (AMD)
Containers and checkpoint/restore MC
10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Hall B1"
Contributions

10:00 seccomp listeners for nested containers - Aleksandr Mikhalitsyn (Canonical)

10:30 Optimizing Checkpoints with Built-in Memory Page Compression - Radostin Stoyanov (University of Oxford)

11:00 Guarded Control Stack on arm64: Challenges in Enabling Shadow Stack Support for CRIU - Igor Svilenkov Bozic (CRIU)

12:00 EROFS and containers - Xiang Gao (Alibaba Cloud)

12:30 Files on Unmounted Mounts - Bhavik Sachdev

13:00 Clean-up on Aisle "fsconfig(2)" - Aleksa Sarai (SUSE LLC)
Rust MC
10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Hall B3/B4"
Contributions

10:00 Overflowing with Fear: Detecting and Mitigating Implicit Panics in Rust - Alexandre Courbot (NVIDIA)

10:20 External locking for internally synchronized data structures - Andreas Hindborg (Samsung)

10:40 Initialization in Rust with pin-init - Benno Lossin

12:00 Rust language evolutions for better kernel developer experience - Xiangfei Ding

12:20 Tackling challenges with HID and related device driver support in Rust - Rahul Rameshbabu

12:40 Exploring a real life RCU use case for Rust - Vitaly Wool

13:00 Rex and its integration with Rust-for-Linux - Jinghao Jia (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Ruowen Qin
Safe Systems with Linux MC
10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Hall A2/3"
Contributions

10:00 Aspects of Dependable Linux Systems - Kate Stewart (Linux Foundation) Philipp Ahmann (Etas GmbH (BOSCH))

10:10 NVIDIA Approach for Achieving ASIL B Qualified Linux: minimizing expectations from upstream kernel processes - Igor Stoppa (nvidia)

10:35 Applying Program Verification to Linux Kernel Code: Challenges, Practices, and Automation - Keisuke Nishimura

11:00 Defining and maintaining requirements in the Linux Kernel - Chuck Wolber Gabriele Paoloni (Red Hat) Kate Stewart (Linux Foundation)

12:00 KUnit Testing Insufficiencies - Matthew Whitehead (The Boeing Company)

12:25 Exploring possibilities for integrating StrictDoc with ELISA's requirements template approach for the Linux kernel - Tobias Deiminger (Linutronix GmbH)

12:40 BASIL: Traceability as Code - Luigi Pellecchia

12:55 Tooling and Sharing Traceability Discussion - Luigi Pellecchia Matthew Whitehead (The Boeing Company) Tobias Deiminger (Linutronix GmbH)

13:20 Wrap up and next steps - Kate Stewart (Linux Foundation) Philipp Ahmann (Etas GmbH (BOSCH))
eBPF Track
10:00 - 18:30
Room: "Main Hall A"
Contributions

10:00 Advanced BPF profiling techniques: how to escape the curse of NMI and fetch ELF contents at runtime - Andrii Nakryiko (Meta)

10:30 bpf tracing multi-link supporting - Menglong Dong (ChinaTelecom)

11:00 uprobe optimization and override - Jiri Olsa (Isovalent)

12:00 Supply true signatures to vmlinux BTF - Yonghong Song

12:30 cache_ext: Customizing the Page Cache with eBPF - Tal Zussman (Columbia University)

13:00 Lessons from scaling BPF to detect RDMA Device Drivers Bugs in real time - Prankur Gupta (Meta)

15:00 AI flame graphs with eBPF - Brendan Gregg (Intel) Ben Olson (Intel Corporation)

15:30 Fingeprinting GPU workloads with eBPF - Jiri Gogela (Trend Micro)

16:00 Extending eBPF to GPU Device and Driver Contexts - Yusheng Zheng (eunomia-bpf) Tong Yu (eunomia-bpf)

17:00 Python-BPF: Writing eBPF programs in pure Python - Pragyansh Chaturvedi Varun Mallya (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee)

17:30 “Is Upstream Really Enough?” — Practical Realities of Using eBPF in Long-Term Supported Systems - Kenta Tada

18:00 From Projects to Ecosystems: Lessons from the eBPF Foundation - Bill Mulligan (Isovalent)
15:00 Kernel Testing & Dependability MC
15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Hall A2/3"
Contributions

15:00 UAPI testing with KUnit - Thomas Weißschuh (Linutronix)

15:20 Kselftests augmented: running kernelspace tests from userspace - Ricardo Cañuelo (Igalia)

15:40 KFuzzTest: Targeted Fuzzing of Internal Kernel Functions - Ethan Graham (ETH Zurich)

16:00 SYZOS: Practical KVM fuzzing - Alexander Potapenko (Google)

16:50 syzbot ci: continuous patch series fuzzing - Aleksandr Nogikh (Google)

17:10 Automating Scope-Based Resource Cleanup with Coccinelle - Erick Muthama

17:30 The singularity is here for testing: genai advancements on kdevops - Luis Chamberlain (Samsung)

17:50 KernelCI kci-dev: Closing the developer feedback loop - Arisu Tachibana

18:10 A fast path to benchmarking - Mark Brown
Power and Thermal management MC
15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Hall B3/B4"
Contributions

15:05 Evolving genpd’s ->sync_state() support - Saravana Kannan Ulf Hansson (Linaro)

15:25 Thermal framework issues and limitations - Daniel Lezcano (Linaro)

15:45 Updating Energy Model from Thermal - Lukasz Luba

16:05 Generic voting mechanism to build on top PM QoS - Daniel Lezcano (Linaro)

17:00 Multiple system-wide low power-states - Kevin Hilman (BayLibre) Ulf Hansson (Linaro)

17:20 Hibernation Testing Challenges and Optimization Opportunities - Srinivas Pandruvada

17:40 Thermal binning support - Amit Kucheria

18:00 Graceful Performance Management for Non-Linux Co‑Processors in Modern SoCs - Amit Kucheria
RISC-V MC
15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Hall B1"
Contributions

15:00 Introduction

15:03 Preparing RISC-V Linux for RVA23 - Charlie Jenkins (Rivos)

15:30 Declaring WARL on the ISA string. - Radim Krčmář (Ventana Micro Systems)

16:00 Schism: Splitting RV32 from `arch/riscv` - - We Could Both Be Better as We Part Ways - "Ruinland" ChuanTzu Tsai (Andes Technology) ChunWei Shu (SiFive)

17:00 Finer-grained kernel control flow integrity and challenges - Deepak Gupta

17:20 RISC-V QoS: CBQRI, RQSC and resctrl - Drew Fustini (Tenstorrent)

17:40 Solving Pre-silicon Kernel Upstream for RISC-V First Ever - Yuning Liang (DeepComputing)

18:00 Debugging RISC-V Kernel Crashes: KDUMP, vmcore, and Crash Utility Enhancements - Austin Kim (LG Electronics)
sched_ext: The BPF extensible scheduler class MC
15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Hall B2"
Contributions

15:00 sched_ext: current status and future plans - Andrea Righi (NVIDIA)

15:18 From Fragmentation to Integration: Enhancing sched_ext BPF Scheduler Interoperability with Linux - Daniel Hodges (Meta)

15:36 Can ProxyExec and sched_ext get along? - John Stultz (Google)

15:54 scx_chaos: Pushing the sched_ext API to schedule badly - Jake Hillion (Meta)

16:12 Scheduler composability with arena-based data structures - Emil Tsalapatis (Meta Platforms)

17:00 Accelerating AI training fleets with sched_ext - Patrick Lu (Meta) Valentin Andrei (Meta) Pat Somaru (Meta)

17:36 Taming the Chiplet: High Performance CCX scheduling via BPF - Aniket Gattani (Google) Josh Don (Google)

17:54 The Current Status and Future Direction of the LAVD Scheduler - Changwoo Min (Igalia)

18:12 How do we make a Steamdeck scheduler work on large servers - David Dai (Meta) Ryan Newton (Meta)
Saturday, 13 December 2025
09:00 Networking Track
09:00 - 18:30
Room: "Main Hall A"
Contributions

10:00 Networking track kick-off - Jakub Kicinski (Facebook)

10:25 SUPERp: Scale UP EtherRnet Protocol - Tom Herbert (XDPnet)

11:00 Experiments in Using AI to Enhance the Linux Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - Stephen Hemminger (Independent)

12:00 Locality-Aware, Self-Adjusting Data Structures: A Case Study in Linux Firewalls - Jonas Köppeler (TU Berlin)

12:30 Congestion Signaling (CSIG) for Linux TCP Data Center Networking - Sagarika Sharma

13:00 Running PTP at scale: - Vadim Fedorenko

15:05 Packet Metadata - Where Are Thee? - Jakub Sitnicki (Cloudflare) Willem Ferguson (Cloudflare) Tiago Lam (Cloudflare)

15:40 The case for zero-copy in containers: Accelerating KubeVirt and enabling memory providers - Anton Protopopov (Isovalent) Daniel Borkmann (Isovalent) David Wei (Meta)

17:00 Kernel-Native Packet Processing on AMD GPUs: XDP Offload without Userspace Runtimes - Taehee Yoo

17:35 Linux Networking with MANA: RX Path Optimization and Netshaper Bandwidth Control. - Dipayan Roy (Microsoft) Sri Satya Vennela Erni
10:00 Android MC
10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Hall A2/3"
Contributions

10:00 Android Boot: Next Steps - Dmitrii Merkurev (Google)

10:15 Bootloader-Based S2D(suspend to disk) Mechanism on mobile - Tengfei Fan

10:30 A Linux VM on Android via AVF - Jeongik Cha (Google)

10:45 Ramdump for Trusted VMs: Efficient Crash Debugging Without Reboot Device - Cong Zhang

11:00 BPF Based Telemetry, Metrics, and Accounting on Android - T.J. Mercier (Google - Android Kernel Team)

11:15 AOSP on taped-out RISC-V SoC without RVA22/23, I came back to finish what I started. - "Ruinland" ChuanTzu Tsai (Andes Technology)

12:00 Pixel 6 support upstream and on android-mainline - William McVicker

12:15 How do we make KUnit work for us? - Tiffany Yang (Google)

12:30 Cooperation between CPU and system level cache by using MPAM - Yiwei Huang

12:45 Android Ashmem to Memfd - Isaac Manjarres (Google)

13:00 The Challenge of Loading 4kB-Aligned ELFs on 16kB Systems - Juan Yescas (Google) Kalesh Singh (Google)

13:15 HW/SW design recommendations for 16kb devices - Juan Yescas Kalesh Singh (Google)
Birds of a Feather (BoF)
10:00 - 18:30
Room: "Main Hall B"
Contributions

10:00 ML applications in Linux kernel - Viacheslav Dubeyko Viacheslav Dubeyko (IBM)

10:45 Linux CVE workgroup - Damiano Melotti (Google)

12:00 Hardware in the loop pipelines for testing - for everyone! - Vipul Gupta

12:45 KDLP: Expanding the Linux Kernel Talent Pipeline - Denis Aleksandrov (Red Hat Associate) Rado Vrbovksy (Red Hat Associate)

15:00 COCONUT-SVSM BoF - Joerg Roedel (AMD)

15:45 Microconference for resctrl - Fenghua Yu (NVIDIA)

17:00 Rust for Linux Office Hours - Alice Ryhl (Google) Andreas Hindborg (Samsung) Benno Lossin Boqun Feng Danilo Krummrich Miguel Ojeda

17:45 Installing and Using the Linux-Kernel Memory Model (LKMM) - Boqun Feng
LPC Refereed Track
10:00 - 18:30
Room: "Hall A1"
Contributions

10:00 Beyond the Demo Kernel: Mapping BSPs to Mainline - Alessandro Carminati

10:45 Rethinking Linux tools with Compact Debuginfo Formats - Stephen Brennan (Oracle)

12:00 Perf tools updates and beyond - Namhyung Kim (Google)

12:45 Meminspect - Kernel memory selection and inspection mechanism - Eugen Hristev (Linaro)

15:00 Linux Tracing updates - Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

15:45 A (Simple) Hazard Pointer Update - Boqun Feng Paul McKenney (Facebook)

17:00 Demystifying Linux NPU Subsystem: From Vision to LLM at Edge - Jagan Teki (Upstream Linux Specialist - Linux DRM Panle/Bridge, U-Boot Allwinner, SPI, SPI Flash Maintainer, NPU Enthusiastic)

17:45 Power Management and USB Fuzzing: A Modular Approach to Kernel Coverage During Suspend Crashes - DARRION RAMOS (University of Florida) VICTORIA SIVER (University of Florida) Ken Yihang Bai (University of Florida) Tuba Yavuz (University of Florida)
System Boot and Security MC
10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Hall B2"
Contributions

10:00 Ultraviolet: A Code Integrity Model for Minimal Container Hosts - James Morris

10:25 The Future of Platform Security Measurement in Linux - Maciej Pijanowski (3mdeb)

10:50 Reconcilable Differences: Booting Linux on IBM PowerVM LPARs - George Wilson (IBM)

11:10 ReLaunch Revisited: A Refresher on TrenchBoot Late Launch - Daniel Kiper Daniel Smith (Apertus Solutions, LLC)

11:45 Design Space and Challenges in Design of Attested TLS Protocols - Muhammad Usama Sardar (TU Dresden)

12:05 Oak stage0: a minimal firmware for (confidential) virtual machines - Andri Saar (Google) Kevin Hui (Meta Platforms, Inc.)

12:30 Who Authenticates Linux? Rethinking PAM & NSS in the Age of Cloud Identity - David Mulder (SUSE)

13:00 Android Boot, DRTM, UKIs - Dmitrii Merkurev (Google) Leif Lindholm (Qualcomm) Ram Muthiah (Google)
VFIO/IOMMU/PCI MC
10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Hall B3/B4"
Contributions

10:00 Confidential Devices (TEE I/O): A series of modest proposals - Dan Williams (Intel)

10:30 iommu page table consolidation and iommufd - Jason Gunthorpe (NVIDIA Networking)

11:00 vfio, iommufd: Enabling user space drivers to vend more granular access to client processes - Alex Mastro (Meta)

12:00 VFIO: Very Frightening I/O? Taming Wild Guests and their PCIe Config-Space Abuse - Hubertus Franke (IBM Research)

12:20 A Hyper-V Based pvIOMMU Built on Generic I/O Page Table - Yu Zhang

12:40 Plumbing SDXI into Linux: From DMA Engine to User‑Space Offloads - Wei Huang

13:00 Turning PCIe Hints into Cache Hits: Enabling Smart Data Cache Injection in Linux - Wei Huang

13:15 PCI Pwrctrl woes - Manivannan Sadhasivam
x86 MC
10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Hall B1"
Contributions

10:00 Dynamic mitigations - David Kaplan (AMD)

10:20 discussion

10:50 Leveraging New General-Purpose Registers in the Kernel - Chang Bae (Intel Corporation)

11:10 discussion

12:00 Address Space Isolation is ready - Brendan Jackman (Google)

12:20 discussion

12:50 The new kernel CPUID API - Ahmed S. Darwish (Linutronix GmbH)

13:10 discussion
15:00 Devicetree MC
15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Hall B3/B4"
Contributions

15:00 Status of DTS validation in the Linux kernel (and how to improve it) - Krzysztof Kozlowski (Qualcomm)

15:20 Improving fw_devlink dependency tracking - Saravana Kannan

15:45 "Exclusive" resources that are not exclusive - the case of shared GPIOs in DT systems - Bartosz Golaszewski (Qualcomm)

16:10 Power Sequencing for Enumerable Busses - What's Still Missing From the Device Tree and Kernel - Chen-Yu Tsai (Google, LLC)

17:00 DeviceTrees - MIPI SoundWire® Device Class for Audio (SDCA) and classic ACPI-DT problem - Srini Kandagatla

17:25 DT formatter - a maintainer's and contributor's elusive dream? - Konrad Dybcio (Qualcomm)

17:50 Device Tree Metadata: How Bootloaders Pick DTBs and Apply Overlays - Chen-Yu Tsai (Google, LLC)
Gaming on Linux MC
15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Hall B2"
Contributions

15:00 Welcome to the Gaming MC! - André Almeida (Igalia) David Vernet (Meta)

15:05 Resource management on embedded gaming devices - Stefan Bossbaly (Meta)

15:35 Level Up Your Game: OS Kernel and Game Interactions revealed with Perfetto - Ramesh Peri (Meta)

16:05 A new API for robust futex list - André Almeida (Igalia)

17:00 Steps Towards a Gaming-Optimized Scheduler - Changwoo Min (Igalia)

17:30 Proactive and crash-time data collection on Steam Deck - Guilherme G. Piccoli (Igalia)

18:00 Gaming MC BoF
Live Update MC
15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Hall A2/3"
Contributions

15:00 Live Update Orchestrator - Pasha Tatashin

15:15 Managing serialization versions for LUO objects - Pratyush Yadav

15:30 KSTATE as [de]serializer of kernel's state. - Andrey Ryabinin

15:45 Memory preservation using LUO - Pratyush Yadav

16:00 Kexec Handover Performance Improvements - Jason Miu

16:15 Blackout Reduction - Pasha Tatashin

17:00 Supporting Live Update in VFIO - David Matlack (Google) Josh Hilke (KVM Team @ Google)

17:15 IOMMU State Preservation for Kernel Liveupdate - Samiullah Khawaja

17:30 PCI liveupdate subsystem and PCI device - Chris Li (Google)

17:45 PCSC: Caching PCI Config Space Accesses for faster Live Updates - Evangelos Petrongonas (Amazon Web Services)

18:00 IDPF live-update support - Brian Vazquez

18:15 Supporting Hypervisor Kexec with Modern Devices - Adithya Jayachandran (NVIDIA) Saeed Mahameed (Nvidia)
Nova GPU Workshop: Nova: status update + 2026 plans
Nova: status update + 2026 plans
15:00 - 15:30
Room: "Hall B1"

15:30 Nova GPU Workshop: GPU Firmware: status and 2026 plans
GPU Firmware: status and 2026 plans
15:30 - 16:00
Room: "Hall B1"

16:00 Nova GPU Workshop: vGPU + VFIO: status and 2026 plans
vGPU + VFIO: status and 2026 plans
16:00 - 16:30
Room: "Hall B1"

16:30 Nova GPU Workshop: User mode command submission for GPUs
User mode command submission for GPUs
16:30 - 17:30
Room: "Hall B1"

17:30 Nova GPU Workshop: User mode APIs: Vulkan Compute, CUDA, Rusticl
User mode APIs: Vulkan Compute, CUDA, Rusticl
17:30 - 18:00
Room: "Hall B1"

19:30 Evening Event: Evening Event
Evening Event
19:30 - 22:30

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