Name: Linux Plumbers Conference 2026
Start: 2026-10-05T09:57:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-07T19:00:00+02:00
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Linux Plumbers Conference 2026

from Monday, 5 October 2026 (09:57) to Wednesday, 7 October 2026 (19:00)

Monday, 5 October 2026
09:57 Android MC
09:57 - 13:30
Room: "Club E"
Contributions

09:57 Android MC Intro

10:00 Vendor hooks in Android kernels? Why? What do vendors do with them? - Todd Kjos (Google)

10:15 Kernel Lock Contention Hotspots Causing Frame Drops on Android Mainline - Barry Song (Xiaomi Corporation) Bo Zhang (Xiaomi Corporation) Hongru Zhang (Xiaomi Corporation)

10:30 RT tasks in sched-ext support - Rohan Tabish Tengfei Fan

10:45 A Vendor Module Framework for Android eBPF - Siddharth Nayyar (Google)

11:00 CPU Power Regression Testing with Wattson - William McVicker

11:15 Modernizing Android USB: Userspace AOA, Multi-UDC, Type-C, and Framework APIs - George Chan (Google - Android Security) Neill Kapron (Google)

12:00 Space sharing between super and data partitions on Android system - Xirui Zhang Yangtao Li

12:15 Android GBL + Dynamic Partitions 2.0 - Daniel Zheng

12:30 Generic Boot Loader on Android platforms - Naina Mehta

12:45 Actionable Strategies to mitigate memory footprint on 16kb kernels - Juan Yescas (Google) Kalesh Singh (Google)

13:00 16KB page cache and mTHP on Android - Barry Song Bo Zhang (Xiaomi Corporation) nanzhe zhao (Xiaomi Corporation)

13:15 Closing the SCMI-over-Virtio Host Backend Gap for GuestVM Clock and Regulator Virtualization - Sungho Bae (LG Electronics)
10:00 Device and Specific Purpose Memory MC
10:00 - 13:35
Room: "Small Theatre"
Contributions

10:00 Intro/Welcome

10:05 A Compressed RAM Service - Gregory Price (Meta)

10:35 Unordered I/O (UIO) support and P2P paths - Arun George (Samsung Semiconductor)

11:05 CXL Performance Monitoring - Status and Outlook - Robert Richter (Advanced Micro Devices)

12:00 Using Platform-provided Hints for Hot Page Detection and Promotion - Bharata Bhasker Rao (AMD)

12:25 DAMON (Data Attributes Monitoring/Operations Engine)-based {C,G,X}PU [un]attached NUMA Pages Migration - SJ Park

12:50 XMFS: A Cross-node Express Memory File System - Yifan Qiao

13:10 DAXFS: What Does Shared-Memory Storage Need from DAX, VFS, and CXL Memory Management? - Cong Wang (Multikernel Technologies)
LPC Refereed Track
10:00 - 18:30
Room: "Small Hall"
Contributions

10:00 Nova: Building an NVIDIA GPU Driver in Rust Upstream - Danilo Krummrich John Hubbard (NVIDIA)

10:45 The slab allocator sheaves post-mortem - Vlastimil Babka (SUSE Labs)

12:00 Modern Developments with NFS in Linux - Jeffrey Layton

12:45 Modernizing Kernel Boot Options: Resolving cmdline and Bootconfig Discrepancies - Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

15:00 Untangling convoluted performance regression - Jan Kara

15:45 Long-term latency monitoring of real-time Linux systems - Jan Altenberg

17:00 Firmware-mediated accelerators for edge AI - Tomeu Vizoso (NPU drivers - Independent contractor)

17:45 20 years of pahole : alive and kicking! - Alan Maguire (Oracle) Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (Red Hat Inc.)
Linux System Monitoring and Observability MC

10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Club H"

Nova GPU & DRM Rust Workshop

10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Club B"
Safe Systems with Linux MC
10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Club A"
Contributions

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

10:15 Towards Program Verification of the Linux Kernel Library XArray - Corinn Tiffany (Inria)

10:45 Common pitfalls and errors, when using Linux in Safety Applications - Igor Stoppa (nvidia)

12:00 Scaling the Design Definition - Chuck Wolber

12:30 Defining Linux Kernel Requirements and Test Specifications out of the Kernel Tree - Gabriele Paoloni (Red Hat) Kate Stewart (Linux Foundation)

13:00 From Manual Argument to Machine-Readable Graph: Toward a Safety SBOM for Linux - Nicole Pappler

13:25 Wrap up - Kate Stewart (Linux Foundation) Philipp Ahmann (Etas GmbH (BOSCH))
Toolchains Track
10:00 - 18:30
Room: "South Hall 1 B"
Contributions

10:00 Security Features status update - Justin Stitt (Google) Kees Cook (Google)

10:30 Compiler-Based Context Analysis for Compile-Time Lock Safety - Marco Elver (Google)

11:00 BPF support in the GNU Toolchain - Cupertino Miranda David Faust Jose E. Marchesi (GNU Project, Oracle Inc.) Vineet Gupta

12:00 Are your types the same as mine? - Kris Van Hees (Oracle USA)

12:30 Towards real-time ABI compatibility assurance with libctf - Nick Alcock

13:00 Adding C library wrappers for all Linux syscalls - The Return - Carlos O'Donell (Red Hat) Florian Weimer (Red Hat)

15:00 Kernel module support for PGO AutoFDO and Propeller - Rong Xu (Google)

15:30 Upgrading Runtime Leaks to Compile-Time Errors: Adopting Clang’s require_explicit_initialization - Ian Rogers (Google)

16:00 Kage: device driver isolation in the Linux kernel with LFI - Zachary Yedidia (Stanford University and Google)

17:00 GCC Rust support for Linux - David Edelsohn (NVIDIA) Philip Herron (Embecosm)

17:30 Crossing borders between user space and kernel space: GDB/Valgrind/drgn close cooperation - Alexandra Petlanova Hajkova

17:45 Beyond Coverage: Per-Task Function Boundary Extraction for Kernel Contract Verification - Yunseong Kim (Ericsson Software Technology)
eBPF Track
10:00 - 18:30
Room: "South Hall 1 A"
Contributions

10:00 Rust-BPF updates - Alexei Starovoitov

10:30 Support large-size arguments and Rust based exception handling - Yonghong Song

11:00 Extending the BPF Type Format to support more languages - Alan Maguire (Oracle)

12:00 Slaying the BPF Verifier: Safe & Static Kernel Extensions Using Rust - Aniket Gattani (Google Inc.)

12:30 blitmus: Litmus-testing the eBPF memory model on real hardware - Puranjay Mohan (Meta)

13:00 Adding KASAN support for JIT-compiled BPF Programs - Alexis Lothoré (Bootlin)

15:00 BPF Kernel Verifier meets GCC: A saga of arranged marriage - Vineet Gupta

15:30 Evolution of Value Tracking in the BPF Verifier - Shung-Hsi Yu (SUSE)

16:00 Proof-Carrying Verification for eBPF - Martin Fink (Technical University of Munich)

17:00 kops and rejit: Safely Optimizing eBPF for Hardware and Workloads - YUSHENG ZHENG Hao Sun (ETH Zurich)

17:30 BPF, sysctls and programmable kernel decision points - Alan Maguire (Oracle)

18:00 eBPF Security: The Uneven Landscape - Gürkan Gür (Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW)
15:00 Birds of a Feather (BoF): No A/V
No A/V
15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Club B"
Contributions

15:00 Debugging CPU isolation / nohz_full - Frederic Weisbecker (Suse)

15:45 Rust for Linux Office Hours - Alice Ryhl (Google) Andreas Hindborg (Samsung) Benno Lossin Boqun Feng Danilo Krummrich Gary Guo Miguel Ojeda

17:00 BoF: Memory Efficiency on Modern Linux Systems - Mykolas Krupauskas (Uber Technologies Inc.)

17:45 Updates and Future Directions for Resctrl RDT/MPAM/AMD/RISC-V - Fenghua Yu (NVIDIA) Ben Horgan Reinette Chatre
Gaming on Linux MC

15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Club H"
Kernel Memory Management MC
15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Club A"
Contributions

15:00 Reducing kernel stack memory (on arm64) - Will Deacon

15:30 Better Anon (Swap) Readahead - Kairui Song (Tencent)

15:50 DMA-buf cgroup accounting for proxy allocators: attributing buffers to the right consumer - Albert Esteve (Red Hat) T.J. Mercier (Google)

16:10 Page fault locking - Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)

17:00 Direct map fragmentation - Kevin Brodsky (Arm)

17:30 Accelerating Page Migration and Making the Migration Core Composable - Shivank Garg (AMD) Zi Yan (NVIDIA)

18:00 Tackling Isolation Issues Due to Memory Pressure - Shakeel Butt
System Boot and Security MC

15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Small Theatre"

VFIO/IOMMU/PCI MC

15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Club E"
Tuesday, 6 October 2026

10:00 AI-Assisted Open Source Development MC

10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Club H"
Birds of a Feather (BoF): No A/V
No A/V
10:00 - 18:30
Room: "Club B"
Contributions

10:00 Kernel Sanitizers Office Hours - Aleksandr Nogikh (Google) Alexander Potapenko (Google) Dmitry Vyukov (Google) Justin Stitt (Google) Kees Cook (Google) Marco Elver (Google) Pimyn Girgis (Google)

10:45 Linux CVEs, vulnerability management and agentic security workflows - Damiano Melotti (Google)

12:45 DRM Fabric: Vendor-Neutral Topology Infrastructure for Scale-Up Accelerator Interconnects - Konstantin Sinyuk (Intel)

15:00 Bridging the Linux Tux and the FreeBSD Beastie – Linuxulator, LinuxKPI, and LLM-Assisted Porting Challenges on License Issue - "Ruinland" ChuanTzu Tsai (Andes Technology)

17:00 Improving THP placement policies - Pedro Falcato (SUSE Labs)

17:45 DAMON Nano Conference - SJ Park
Devicetree MC
10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Club A"
Contributions

10:00 DT bindings and sources shared with U-Boot: current status and ongoing work - Neil Armstrong (Linaro)

10:20 Status of the DTS Validation in the Linux Kernel - Krzysztof Kozlowski (Qualcomm)

10:45 ACPI and Devicetrees - Srini Kandagatla

11:10 Streamlining DT Bindings to Protect Upstreaming Momentum - Amit Kucheria

12:00 Device Tree Addons: Describe hot-pluggable extension boards - Hervé Codina

12:30 Using DT overlays to manage a collection of related boards - Doug Anderson

13:00 OS managed Devicetree overlays through UKI add-ons - Agathe Porte (Qualcomm) Hans de Goede (Qualcomm)
KVM MC

10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Club E"
Kernel Summit Track
10:00 - 18:30
Room: "South Hall 1 B"
Contributions

10:00 Kernel CVEs at AWS Scale: Two Years of Empirical Findings - Dylan Johnson (Amazon Web Services) Justinien Bouron (Amazon Web Services)

10:45 Regressions & tracking them: current state, plans, and what do you want? - Thorsten Leemhuis

12:00 Challenges in multi-tenant GPU sharing - Boqun Feng Gregoire Pean Jatin Kataria

12:45 Maintainer-oriented features of b4 - Konstantin Ryabitsev (The Linux Foundation)

15:00 Rust for Linux - Miguel Ojeda

15:45 Leveraging Rust's Field Projections in the Kernel and Beyond - Benno Lossin

17:00 DRM: handling runtime requirements for device components. - Dmitry Baryshkov (Qualcomm)

17:45 Bringing Linux DRM Display Panel support in the modern age - Neil Armstrong (Linaro)
LPC Refereed Track
10:00 - 17:45
Room: "Small Hall"
Contributions

10:00 RCU Transactions: Bridging the gap between RCU and STM - Mathieu Desnoyers (EfficiOS Inc.)

10:45 Checkpoint/Restore for RDMA: Saving and Restoring Live Queue Pairs with CRIU - Raphael Norwitz (nvidia)

12:00 Improving kernel test coverage using stress-ng - Colin King (stress-ng)

12:45 Rust SPDM in the Kernel - Alistair Francis

15:00 Virtio-GPU for Automotive: Implementing Libkrun + Vhost-User. - Dorinda Bassey (Red Hat)

15:45 The State of the Kconfig Ecosystem - Julian Braha

17:00 Devicetree-ACPI hybrid mode - Hans de Goede (Qualcomm)
Tracing MC
10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Small Theatre"
Contributions

12:00 Sharing trace infrastructure between in-tree and OOT tracers - Mathieu Desnoyers (EfficiOS Inc.)
eBPF Track
10:00 - 18:30
Room: "South Hall 1 A"
Contributions

10:00 eBPF Research: What's Going On In Academia? - Paul Chaignon (Isovalent)

10:30 bpf_fault: Custom Page Fault Handling with eBPF - Tal Zussman (Columbia University)

11:00 Programming Across the VM Boundary with eBPF: Lessons from Revisiting Phantom Tracker - Roy Nchang (National Advanced School of Engineering (ENSPY), Yaoundé)

12:00 shirudo: BPF live-patching infra for the agentic era - Daniel Borkmann (Isovalent) John Fastabend (Isovalent)

12:30 One Layer of the Onion: A Daemonless eBPF LSM for Confidential VMs in a WhatsApp TEE - Joshua Lilly (Meta) Liam Wisehart

13:00 Scaling BPF LSM hooks and error injection across the kernel - Anton Protopopov (Isovalent at Cisco)

15:00 Parsing L7 Protocols in eBPF - Laurin Brandner (ETH Zürich)

15:30 Inline DDoS protection for cloud-native game servers at PlayStation with eBPF/XDP - Babis Stylianopoulos (Sony Interactive Entertainment) Jeffrey Barendse (Sony Interactive Entertainment)

16:00 BPF ksock: bringing network sockets to BPF - Kornilios Kourtis (Isovalent) Mahé Tardy (Isovalent)

17:00 BPF-RBACd: Delegating BPF permissions with high granularity - Toke Høiland-Jørgensen (Red Hat)

17:30 eBPF on Wheels - Automotive and Industrial Use Cases - Reinhard Kugler (SBA Research)

18:00 Pluggable Runtime Verification (RV) monitors with BPF - Gabriele Monaco (Red Hat Inc.)
15:00 Kernel Testing & Dependability MC

15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Club E"

Live Update MC

15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Club H"
Power Management and Thermal Control MC
15:00 - 18:40
Room: "Club A"
Contributions

15:00 Thermal Framework Corner Cases: Bugs or Undefined Behavior? - Daniel Lezcano (Qualcomm)

15:20 Power Cooling Devices: Bridging Thermal and Powercap - Daniel Lezcano (Qualcomm)

15:40 Introducing Hardware Thermal Governor - Srinivas Pandruvada

16:00 Devfreq for uncore DVFS - Jie Zhan (HiSilicon)

16:45 Autonomous CPU performance selection: a new cpufreq governor? - Sumit Gupta

17:05 Amortizing CPU wakeup costs with lazy wakeups - Samuel Wu (Google)

17:25 Current developments in the Common Clk Framework - Brian Masney

17:50 Hardware Pressure on x86: Does the Linux Scheduler Need to Know When You're Throttled? - Ricardo Neri (Intel Corporation)

18:10 Dynamic Runtime Prediction of CPU Idle-State Exit Latency - Aiqun Yu (Qualcomm) Cong Zhang (Qualcomm)
RISC-V MC

15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Small Theatre"
17:45 Birds of a Feather (BoF)
17:45 - 18:30
Room: "Small Hall"
Contributions

17:45 Camera & ISP MC - Laurent Pinchart (Ideas on Board Oy)
Wednesday, 7 October 2026
09:00 LPC Refereed Track
09:00 - 15:45
Room: "South Hall 1 B"
Contributions

09:00 TAB Q&A - Dave Hansen David Hildenbrand (Arm) Greg Kroah-Hartman Julia Lawall (Inria) Kees Cook (Google) Miguel Ojeda Shuah Khan (The Linux Foundation) Steven Rostedt Theodore Ts'o (Google)

10:00 Cryptographic Proofs of Personhood: Solving the Kernel Web of Trust Problem in a Privacy-Preserving Manner - Drummond Reed (First Person Cooperative) Glenn Gore (Affinidi) Hart Montgomery (Linux Foundation)

10:45 A Loadable Crypto Module for FIPS Certification - Jay Wang (Amazon)

12:00 From CVE to Fix in Minutes: AI-Augmented Security Lifecycle Management for Linux Distributions - Kanishk Bansal

12:45 BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN: the hidden perils of testing. - Lucas Castanheira (CMU) Theophilus Benson (Carnegie Mellon University)

15:00 When Embedded Codecs Meet Graphics - Nicolas Dufresne (Collabora Ltd.)
10:00 Build Systems MC

10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Club C+D"
Containers and checkpoint/restore MC
10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Club A"
Contributions

10:00 Constraints of process migrations - Michal Koutný (SUSE)

10:20 Upgrade restrictions for file descriptors - Jori Koolstra (N/A)

10:40 Memory Tracking in forensic checkpointing: what soft-dirty bits can’t tell us - Shailja Shaktawat

11:00 Addressing Challenges for Container Migration in Heterogeneous Clusters - Andrei Vagin

12:00 Enabling Incremental Checkpointing for GPU Workloads - Radostin Stoyanov (University of Oxford)

12:20 Checkpoint/Restore of Device Cgroup eBPF Programs - Pavel Tikhomirov

12:40 dm-qcow2: device-mapper-based QCOW2 storage for containers - Andrei Zhadchenko (Virtuozzo)
Networking Track

10:00 - 18:30
Room: "South Hall 1 A"
Rust MC
10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Club E"
Contributions

10:00 Creating self references safely - Gary Guo (Red Hat)

10:20 Reworking `Request` reference counting in the Rust block device driver API - Andreas Hindborg (Samsung)

10:40 dma_fence abstractions: Design and Challenges - Philipp Stanner

11:00 Tyr: A Status Update - Daniel Almeida (Collabora)

12:00 Bridging the C/Rust Divide: Replicating the PWM Subsystem's Success - Michał Wilczyński

12:20 Using Rust for out-of-tree kernel drivers - Alice Ryhl (Google)

12:40 BPF CO-RE support in Rust - Michal Rostecki (Anza)
Scheduler and Real-Time MC

10:00 - 13:30
Room: "Club H"

15:00 Confidential Computing MC

15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Club E"
Driver Core MC
15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Club C+D"
Contributions

15:00 Power Sequencing for Enumberable Busses - Driver Core Integrations? - Chen-Yu Tsai (Google, LLC)

15:25 Reviving early platform drivers - Bartosz Golaszewski (Qualcomm)

15:50 Evolving support for sync_state to subsystems beyond genpd - Ulf Hansson (Qualcomm)

16:15 Constification of sysfs attribute structures - Thomas Weißschuh (Linutronix)

17:10 Hardware Cross-Dependencies - Solving the Unsolvable - AngeloGioacchino Del Regno (Collabora Ltd.) Sebastian Reichel (Collabora)

17:35 Synx: Cross-core synchronization - Pravin Kumar Ravi (Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.)

18:00 Managing IRQ mapping and deferred probing for ACPI static tables devices - Lorenzo Pieralisi
Live Patching MC

15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Club A"
sched_ext: The BPF extensible scheduler class MC
15:00 - 18:30
Room: "Club H"
Contributions

15:00 Intro / Welcome

15:10 Bridging the VM Boundary: Scheduling Passthrough via pvsched and sched_ext - Josh Don (Google) Vineeth Remanan Pillai (Google)

15:28 BPF-based Composable Idle cpumask Selection - Emil Tsalapatis (Meta Platforms)

15:46 Taming latency spikes caused by lock holder and lock waiter preemption - Changwoo Min (Igalia)

16:04 Making proxy execution compatible with sched_ext - Andrea Righi (NVIDIA)

17:00 Stickiness: Keeping tasks cache-warm in work-conserving LAVD scheduler - Gavin Guo

17:18 HFI plug in to scx_ext - Srinivas Pandruvada

17:36 Automatic placement of accelerator workloads - Balbir Singh Lee Trager (NVIDIA)

18:02 Closing / Final Q&A
15:45 Birds of a Feather (BoF)
15:45 - 18:30
Room: "South Hall 1 B"
Contributions

15:45 FUSE mostly-passthrough filesystems - Amir Goldstein (CTERA Networks)

17:00 Defining the pkeys ABI - Kevin Brodsky (Arm)

17:45 Virtio and Vhost-User Ecosystem for Production and Automotive Systems - Dorinda Bassey (Red Hat) Albert Esteve (Red Hat) Stefano Garzarella (Red Hat)

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