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Chris Mason (Meta), Josef Bacik (Anthropic), Roman Gushchin (Google)
Overview
AI coding tools (LLMs, code assistants, AI agents) are rapidly becoming part of the developer workflow across the software industry. Open source communities are beginning to grapple with how these tools intersect with their development processes — from code generation and review assistance to documentation, debugging, and large-scale refactoring. This microconference will bring...
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John Stultz (Google), Karim Yaghmour (Opersys inc.), Sumit Semwal (Linaro)
The Android Micro Conference brings the upstream community and Android systems developers together to discuss issues and changes to the Android platform and their dependencies and interactions with the Linux kernel, allowing for collaboration on solutions for upstream.
Some highlights of progress made since last year’s MC:
- On 16k kernels, a set of recommendations were put together...
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Dhaval Giani, Joerg Roedel (AMD)
Confidential Computing MC
Over the last few years, the Confidential Computing microconferences at LPC have been a key driver in advancing support for trusted execution workloads across the Linux virtualization and software ecosystem.
As a result of the previous confidential computing microconference, the following major features were merged:
- SEV-SNP support
- TDX support
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Adrian Reber (Red Hat), Mr Christian Brauner, Michal Koutný (SUSE), Mike Rapoport, Stéphane Graber (Zabbly)
The Containers and Checkpoint/Restore micro-conference focuses on both userspace and kernel related work.
The micro-conference targets the wider container ecosystem ideally with participants from all major container runtimes as well as init system developers.
The microconference will be discussing recent advancements in container technologies with some of the usual candidates being:
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Davidlohr Bueso (Samsung Semiconductor)
The Device and Specific Purpose Memory Microconference is proposed as a space to discuss topics that cross MM, Virtualization, and Memory device-driver boundaries. Beyond CXL this includes software methods for device-coherent memory via ZONE_DEVICE, physical memory pooling / sharing, and specific purpose memory application ABIs like device-dax, hugetlbfs, and guest_memfd. Some suggested topic...
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Mr Krzysztof Kozlowski (Qualcomm)
The Devicetree Microconference focuses on discussing and solving problems present in the systems using Devicetree as firmware representation. This notably is Linux kernel and U-Boot, which share the Devicetree bindings and sources, but also can cover topics relevant to Zephyr or System Devicetrees. Systems using Devicetree are majority of embedded boards, mobile devices and ARM64...
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Bartosz Golaszewski (Qualcomm)
Driver Core Microconference focuses on general problems of the linux kernel driver model.
The goal is to discuss the various aspects and problems of device driver core, platform and auxiliary devices, subsystem architecture, firmware description, fw_devlink, API design and object life-time issues.
Current problems:
**Object life-time issues and proposed...
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André Almeida (Igalia), David Vernet (Meta)
The Gaming on Linux Microconference welcomes the community to discuss a broad range of topics around improvements for Gaming devices running Linux. Gaming on Linux has pushed the kernel to improve in several areas and has helped create new features for Linux, such as the futex_waitv() syscall, the Unicode subsystem, HDR support, sched_ext, and much more. Although some of these were initially...
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Arisu Tachibana
The Kernel Testing & Dependability Micro-Conference (a.k.a. Testing MC) focuses on advancing the current state of testing of the Linux kernel and its related infrastructure.
Building upon the momentum from previous years, the Testing MC's main purpose is to promote collaboration between all communities and individuals involved with kernel testing and dependability. We aim to create...
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Paolo Bonzini (Red Hat, Inc.), Sean Christopherson (Google)
KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) enables the use of hardware features to
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improve the efficiency, performance, and security of virtual machines
created and managed by userspace. KVM was originally developed to host
and accelerate "full" virtual machines running a traditional kernel and
operating system, but has long since expanded to cover a wide array of use
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Breno Leitao (Meta), Jason Xing (Tencent), Usama Arif
The Linux System Monitoring and Observability MC brings together developers, maintainers, system engineers, and researchers to tackle unsolved problems in understanding, monitoring, and maintaining the health of Linux systems at scale.
Engineers managing millions of Linux servers face monitoring and observability challenges that no single team can solve alone. This track provides a forum...
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Jiri Kosina (SUSE), Joe Lawrence (Red Hat), Josh Poimboeuf (Red Hat), Miroslav Beneš, Petr Mladek (SUSE), Song Liu (Meta)
Kernel Live Patching allows fixing kernel bugs without rebooting
or stopping the workload. It is an essential tool to keep modern
data centers health with fast evolving kernels and workloads.The Live Patching MC at Linux Plumbers 2026 aims to gather
stakeholders and interested parties to discuss proposed features
and outstanding issues in live patching.Possible topics for this...
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Alexander Graf, David Matlack (Google), Mike Rapoport, Pasha Tatashin
Proposal
Live Update is a specialized reboot process where selected devices are kept operational and kernel state is preserved and recreated across a kexec. For devices, DMA and interrupts may continue during the reboot.
The primary use-case of Live Update is to enable hypervisor updates in cloud environments with minimal disruption to running virtual machines. During a Live Update,...
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Rafael Wysocki (Intel), Ulf Hansson (Linaro)
The Power Management and Thermal Control micro-conference is about all things related to saving energy and managing heat. Among other things, we care about CPU, platform and device power-management mechanisms, thermal control support, and power capping. In particular, we are interested in improving and extending thermal control support in the Linux kernel and utilizing energy-saving features...
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Drew Fustini (Tenstorrent), Paul Walmsley (SiFive)
LPC 2026: RISC-V Microconference
The RISC-V ecosystem continues to expand rapidly, with new silicon like the RVA23-compatible SpacemiT K3, a steady cadence of ratified and vendor-defined ISA extensions, and platform classes reaching from embedded parts to server-class SoCs. Session topics cover architecture work, platform and vendor enablement, firmware/SBI coordination, and userspace...
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Miguel Ojeda
Rust is a systems programming language that is making great strides in becoming the next big one in the domain. Rust for Linux is the project adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel.
Rust has a key property that makes it very interesting as the second language in the kernel: it guarantees no undefined behavior takes place (as long as unsafe...
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Kate Stewart (Linux Foundation), Philipp Ahmann (Etas GmbH (BOSCH))
Description/Motivation
As Linux continues to be deployed in systems with varying criticality constraints, the need for consistent linkage between requirements, code, and tests becomes increasingly important at the higher assurance levels. Establishing such traceability can improve development and testing efficiency, supports necessary analysis, and reduces long‑term maintenance...
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Andrea Righi (NVIDIA), Changwoo Min (Igalia)
sched_ext[1] is a Linux kernel feature that enables implementing safe task schedulers in BPF and dynamically loading them at runtime. Its key strength is flexibility, allowing rapid iteration of scheduling policies, deploying changes on the fly and quickly addressing topology inefficiencies or workload-specific issues.
This MC provides a space for the community to discuss the evolution of...
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Vincent Guittot (Linaro)
Building upon the success of last year, we propose a combined microconference focused on the Real-Time and Scheduler subsystems. These two areas are fundamentally intertwined and continue to drive cross-cutting changes, especially following the upstream integration of PREEMPT_RT. The Linux scheduler is central to overall system performance. Addressing the challenges of modern computing—from...
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Steven Rostedt
Description:
Visibility into the Linux kernel has always been critical for debugging and validating the execution of the code. The never ending challenge is to be able to trace the code without causing extra overhead, as tracing is most useful in a production environment.Possible topics for this year include:
- Updating the [deferred stack tracer][1] for [sframes][2].
- A...
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Alex Williamson, Bjorn Helgaas (Google), Krzysztof Wilczyński, Lorenzo Pieralisi
The [PCI][1] interconnect specification, the devices that implement it, and the system IOMMUs that provide memory and access control to them have become the de-facto standard for connecting high-speed components. The specification continues to expand with features spanning address translation (ATS/PRI), I/O virtualisation ([SR-IOV][2]/PASID/SVA), high-performance data movement (RDMA,...
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