Linux Plumbers Conference 2026

Name: Linux Plumbers Conference 2026
Start: 2026-10-05T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-07T19:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

5–7 Oct 2026

Europe/Prague timezone

Android MC

Device and Specific Purpose Memory MC

LPC Refereed Track

Linux System Monitoring and Observability MC

Nova GPU & DRM Rust Workshop

Safe Systems with Linux MC

Toolchains Track

eBPF Track

Birds of a Feather (BoF)

Gaming on Linux MC

Kernel Memory Management MC

System Boot and Security MC

VFIO/IOMMU/PCI MC

AI-Assisted Open Source Development MC

Devicetree MC

KVM MC

Kernel Summit Track

Tracing MC

Kernel Testing & Dependability MC

Live Update MC

Power Management and Thermal Control MC

RISC-V MC

Build Systems MC

Containers and checkpoint/restore MC

Networking Track

Rust MC

Scheduler and Real-Time MC

Confidential Computing MC

Driver Core MC

Live Patching MC

sched_ext: The BPF extensible scheduler class MC

	5 Oct 2026
Time	"Club A"	"Club B"	"Club E"	"Club H"	"Small Hall"	"Small Theatre"	"South Hall 1 A"	"South Hall 1 B"
10:00	Aspects of Dependable Linux Systems Kate Stewart, Philipp Ahmann "Club A"				Nova: Building an NVIDIA GPU Driver in Rust Upstream Danilo Krummrich, John Hubbard "Small Hall"		Rust-BPF updates Alexei Starovoitov "South Hall 1 A"	Security Features status update Kees Cook, Justin Stitt "South Hall 1 B"
10:15	Towards Program Verification of the Linux Kernel Library XArray Corinn Tiffany "Club A"						Rust-BPF updates Alexei Starovoitov "South Hall 1 A"
10:30							Support large-size arguments and Rust based exception handling Yonghong Song "South Hall 1 A"	Compiler-Based Context Analysis for Compile-Time Lock Safety Marco Elver "South Hall 1 B"
10:45	Common pitfalls and errors, when using Linux in Safety Applications Igor Stoppa "Club A"				The slab allocator sheaves post-mortem Vlastimil Babka "Small Hall"
11:00							Extending the BPF Type Format to support more languages Alan Maguire "South Hall 1 A"	BPF support in the GNU Toolchain Jose E. Marchesi, Vineet Gupta, David Faust, Cupertino Miranda "South Hall 1 B"
11:30	Coffee Break		Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
12:00	Scaling the Design Definition Chuck Wolber "Club A"				Modern Developments with NFS in Linux Jeffrey Layton "Small Hall"		Slaying the BPF Verifier: Safe & Static Kernel Extensions Using Rust Aniket Gattani "South Hall 1 A"	Are your types the same as mine? Kris Van Hees "South Hall 1 B"
12:30	Defining Linux Kernel Requirements and Test Specifications out of the Kernel Tree Gabriele Paoloni, Kate Stewart "Club A"						blitmus: Litmus-testing the eBPF memory model on real hardware Puranjay Mohan "South Hall 1 A"	Towards real-time ABI compatibility assurance with libctf Nick Alcock "South Hall 1 B"
12:45					Modernizing Kernel Boot Options: Resolving cmdline and Bootconfig Discrepancies Masami Hiramatsu "Small Hall"
13:00	From Manual Argument to Machine-Readable Graph: Toward a Safety SBOM for Linux Nicole Pappler "Club A"						Adding KASAN support for JIT-compiled BPF Programs Alexis Lothoré "South Hall 1 A"	Adding C library wrappers for all Linux syscalls - The Return Florian Weimer, Carlos O'Donell "South Hall 1 B"
13:25	Wrap up Kate Stewart, Philipp Ahmann "Club A"
13:30					Lunch Break		Lunch Break	Lunch Break
15:00	Reducing kernel stack memory (on arm64) Will Deacon "Club A"	Debugging CPU isolation / nohz_full Frederic Weisbecker "Club B"			Untangling convoluted performance regression Jan Kara "Small Hall"		BPF Kernel Verifier meets GCC: A saga of arranged marriage Vineet Gupta "South Hall 1 A"	Kernel module support for PGO AutoFDO and Propeller Rong Xu "South Hall 1 B"
15:30	Better Anon (Swap) Readahead Kairui Song "Club A"						Evolution of Value Tracking in the BPF Verifier Shung-Hsi Yu "South Hall 1 A"	Upgrading Runtime Leaks to Compile-Time Errors: Adopting Clang’s require_explicit_initialization Ian Rogers "South Hall 1 B"
15:45	Better Anon (Swap) Readahead Kairui Song "Club A"	Rust for Linux Office Hours Boqun Feng, Alice Ryhl, Danilo Krummrich, Miguel Ojeda, Andreas Hindborg, Benno Lossin, Gary Guo "Club B"			Long-term latency monitoring of real-time Linux systems Jan Altenberg "Small Hall"
15:50	DMA-buf cgroup accounting for proxy allocators: attributing buffers to the right consumer T.J. Mercier, Albert Esteve "Club A"
16:00							Proof-Carrying Verification for eBPF Martin Fink "South Hall 1 A"	Kage: device driver isolation in the Linux kernel with LFI Zachary Yedidia "South Hall 1 B"
16:10	Page fault locking Matthew Wilcox "Club A"
16:30	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
17:00	Direct map fragmentation Kevin Brodsky "Club A"	BoF: Memory Efficiency on Modern Linux Systems Mykolas Krupauskas "Club B"			Firmware-mediated accelerators for edge AI Tomeu Vizoso "Small Hall"		kops and rejit: Safely Optimizing eBPF for Hardware and Workloads YUSHENG ZHENG, Hao Sun "South Hall 1 A"	GCC Rust support for Linux Philip Herron, David Edelsohn "South Hall 1 B"
17:30	Accelerating Page Migration and Making the Migration Core Composable Zi Yan, Shivank Garg "Club A"						BPF, sysctls and programmable kernel decision points Alan Maguire "South Hall 1 A"	Crossing borders between user space and kernel space: GDB/Valgrind/drgn close cooperation Alexandra Petlanova Hajkova "South Hall 1 B"
17:45		Updates and Future Directions for Resctrl RDT/MPAM/AMD/RISC-V Ben Horgan, Reinette Chatre, Fenghua Yu "Club B"			20 years of pahole : alive and kicking! Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Alan Maguire "Small Hall"			Beyond Coverage: Per-Task Function Boundary Extraction for Kernel Contract Verification Yunseong Kim "South Hall 1 B"
18:00	Tackling Isolation Issues Due to Memory Pressure Shakeel Butt "Club A"						eBPF Security: The Uneven Landscape Gürkan Gür "South Hall 1 A"
	6 Oct 2026
Time	"Club A"	"Club B"	"Club E"	"Club H"	"Small Hall"	"Small Theatre"	"South Hall 1 A"	"South Hall 1 B"
10:00	DT bindings and sources shared with U-Boot: current status and ongoing work Neil Armstrong "Club A"	Kernel Sanitizers Office Hours Alexander Potapenko, Marco Elver, Kees Cook, Pimyn Girgis, Justin Stitt, Aleksandr Nogikh, Dmitry Vyukov "Club B"			RCU Transactions: Bridging the gap between RCU and STM Mathieu Desnoyers "Small Hall"		eBPF Research: What's Going On In Academia? Paul Chaignon "South Hall 1 A"	Kernel CVEs at AWS Scale: Two Years of Empirical Findings Dylan Johnson, Justinien Bouron "South Hall 1 B"
10:20	Status of the DTS Validation in the Linux Kernel Krzysztof Kozlowski "Club A"
10:30							bpf_fault: Custom Page Fault Handling with eBPF Tal Zussman "South Hall 1 A"
10:45	ACPI and Devicetrees Srini Kandagatla "Club A"	Linux CVEs, vulnerability management and agentic security workflows Damiano Melotti "Club B"			Checkpoint/Restore for RDMA: Saving and Restoring Live Queue Pairs with CRIU Raphael Norwitz "Small Hall"			Regressions & tracking them: current state, plans, and what do you want? Thorsten Leemhuis "South Hall 1 B"
11:00	ACPI and Devicetrees Srini Kandagatla "Club A"						Programming Across the VM Boundary with eBPF: Lessons from Revisiting Phantom Tracker Roy Nchang "South Hall 1 A"
11:10	Streamlining DT Bindings to Protect Upstreaming Momentum Amit Kucheria "Club A"
11:30	Coffee Break	Coffee break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
12:00	Device Tree Addons: Describe hot-pluggable extension boards Hervé Codina "Club A"				Improving kernel test coverage using stress-ng Colin King "Small Hall"	Sharing trace infrastructure between in-tree and OOT tracers Mathieu Desnoyers "Small Theatre"	shirudo: BPF live-patching infra for the agentic era Daniel Borkmann, John Fastabend "South Hall 1 A"	Challenges in multi-tenant GPU sharing Jatin Kataria, Gregoire Pean, Boqun Feng "South Hall 1 B"
12:30	Using DT overlays to manage a collection of related boards Doug Anderson "Club A"						One Layer of the Onion: A Daemonless eBPF LSM for Confidential VMs in a WhatsApp TEE Liam Wisehart, Joshua Lilly "South Hall 1 A"
12:45		DRM Fabric: Vendor-Neutral Topology Infrastructure for Scale-Up Accelerator Interconnects Konstantin Sinyuk "Club B"			Rust SPDM in the Kernel Alistair Francis "Small Hall"			Maintainer-oriented features of b4 Konstantin Ryabitsev "South Hall 1 B"
13:00	OS managed Devicetree overlays through UKI add-ons Agathe Porte, Hans de Goede "Club A"				Rust SPDM in the Kernel Alistair Francis "Small Hall"		Scaling BPF LSM hooks and error injection across the kernel Anton Protopopov "South Hall 1 A"
13:30		Lunch			Lunch Break		Lunch Break	Lunch Break
15:00	Thermal Framework Corner Cases: Bugs or Undefined Behavior? Daniel Lezcano "Club A"	Bridging the Linux Tux and the FreeBSD Beastie – Linuxulator, LinuxKPI, and LLM-Assisted Porting Challenges on License Issue "Ruinland" ChuanTzu Tsai "Club B"			Virtio-GPU for Automotive: Implementing Libkrun + Vhost-User. Dorinda Bassey "Small Hall"		Parsing L7 Protocols in eBPF Laurin Brandner "South Hall 1 A"	Rust for Linux Miguel Ojeda "South Hall 1 B"
15:20	Power Cooling Devices: Bridging Thermal and Powercap Daniel Lezcano "Club A"
15:30							Inline DDoS protection for cloud-native game servers at PlayStation with eBPF/XDP Jeffrey Barendse, Babis Stylianopoulos "South Hall 1 A"
15:40	Introducing Hardware Thermal Governor Srinivas Pandruvada "Club A"
15:45					The State of the Kconfig Ecosystem Julian Braha "Small Hall"			Leveraging Rust's Field Projections in the Kernel and Beyond Benno Lossin "South Hall 1 B"
16:00	Devfreq for uncore DVFS Jie Zhan "Club A"						BPF ksock: bringing network sockets to BPF Mahé Tardy, Kornilios Kourtis "South Hall 1 A"
16:20	Coffee Break
16:30	Coffee Break	Coffee break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
16:45	Autonomous CPU performance selection: a new cpufreq governor? Sumit Gupta "Club A"	Coffee break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
17:00		Improving THP placement policies Pedro Falcato "Club B"			Devicetree-ACPI hybrid mode Hans de Goede "Small Hall"		BPF-RBACd: Delegating BPF permissions with high granularity Toke Høiland-Jørgensen "South Hall 1 A"	DRM: handling runtime requirements for device components. Dmitry Baryshkov "South Hall 1 B"
17:05	Amortizing CPU wakeup costs with lazy wakeups Samuel Wu "Club A"
17:25	Current developments in the Common Clk Framework Brian Masney "Club A"
17:30							eBPF on Wheels - Automotive and Industrial Use Cases Reinhard Kugler "South Hall 1 A"
17:45	Short Break	DAMON Nano Conference SJ Park "Club B"			Camera & ISP MC Laurent Pinchart "Small Hall"			Bringing Linux DRM Display Panel support in the modern age Neil Armstrong "South Hall 1 B"
17:50	Hardware Pressure on x86: Does the Linux Scheduler Need to Know When You're Throttled? Ricardo Neri "Club A"
18:00							Pluggable Runtime Verification (RV) monitors with BPF Gabriele Monaco "South Hall 1 A"
18:10	Dynamic Runtime Prediction of CPU Idle-State Exit Latency Aiqun Yu, Cong Zhang "Club A"
	7 Oct 2026
Time	"Club A"	"Club C+D"	"Club E"	"Club H"	"South Hall 1 A"	"South Hall 1 B"
09:00						TAB Q&A Kees Cook, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Shuah Khan, Theodore Ts'o, Julia Lawall, Miguel Ojeda, David Hildenbrand, Steven Rostedt, Dave Hansen "South Hall 1 B"
10:00	Constraints of process migrations Michal Koutný "Club A"		Creating self references safely Gary Guo "Club E"			Cryptographic Proofs of Personhood: Solving the Kernel Web of Trust Problem in a Privacy-Preserving Manner Drummond Reed, Glenn Gore, Hart Montgomery "South Hall 1 B"
10:20	Upgrade restrictions for file descriptors Jori Koolstra "Club A"		Reworking `Request` reference counting in the Rust block device driver API Andreas Hindborg "Club E"
10:40	Memory Tracking in forensic checkpointing: what soft-dirty bits can’t tell us Shailja Shaktawat "Club A"		dma_fence abstractions: Design and Challenges Philipp Stanner "Club E"
10:45						A Loadable Crypto Module for FIPS Certification Jay Wang "South Hall 1 B"
11:00	Addressing Challenges for Container Migration in Heterogeneous Clusters Andrei Vagin "Club A"		Tyr: A Status Update Daniel Almeida "Club E"
11:30	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
12:00	Enabling Incremental Checkpointing for GPU Workloads Radostin Stoyanov "Club A"		Bridging the C/Rust Divide: Replicating the PWM Subsystem's Success Michał Wilczyński "Club E"			From CVE to Fix in Minutes: AI-Augmented Security Lifecycle Management for Linux Distributions Kanishk Bansal "South Hall 1 B"
12:20	Checkpoint/Restore of Device Cgroup eBPF Programs Pavel Tikhomirov "Club A"		Using Rust for out-of-tree kernel drivers Alice Ryhl "Club E"
12:40	dm-qcow2: device-mapper-based QCOW2 storage for containers Andrei Zhadchenko "Club A"		BPF CO-RE support in Rust Michal Rostecki "Club E"
12:45			BPF CO-RE support in Rust Michal Rostecki "Club E"			BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN: the hidden perils of testing. Lucas Castanheira, Theophilus Benson "South Hall 1 B"
13:30					Lunch Break	Lunch Break
15:00		Power Sequencing for Enumberable Busses - Driver Core Integrations? Chen-Yu Tsai "Club C+D"		Intro / Welcome "Club H"		When Embedded Codecs Meet Graphics Nicolas Dufresne "South Hall 1 B"
15:10				Bridging the VM Boundary: Scheduling Passthrough via pvsched and sched_ext Josh Don, Vineeth Remanan Pillai "Club H"
15:25		Reviving early platform drivers Bartosz Golaszewski "Club C+D"
15:28				BPF-based Composable Idle cpumask Selection Emil Tsalapatis "Club H"
15:45						FUSE mostly-passthrough filesystems Amir Goldstein "South Hall 1 B"
15:46				Taming latency spikes caused by lock holder and lock waiter preemption Changwoo Min "Club H"
15:50		Evolving support for sync_state to subsystems beyond genpd Ulf Hansson "Club C+D"
16:04				Making proxy execution compatible with sched_ext Andrea Righi "Club H"
16:15		Constification of sysfs attribute structures Thomas Weißschuh "Club C+D"
16:30	Coffee Break		Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee
16:40	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee
17:00		Coffee Break		Stickiness: Keeping tasks cache-warm in work-conserving LAVD scheduler Gavin Guo "Club H"		Defining the pkeys ABI Kevin Brodsky "South Hall 1 B"
17:10		Hardware Cross-Dependencies - Solving the Unsolvable Sebastian Reichel, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno "Club C+D"
17:18				HFI plug in to scx_ext Srinivas Pandruvada "Club H"
17:35		Synx: Cross-core synchronization Pravin Kumar Ravi "Club C+D"		HFI plug in to scx_ext Srinivas Pandruvada "Club H"
17:36				Automatic placement of accelerator workloads Balbir Singh, Lee Trager "Club H"
17:45						Virtio and Vhost-User Ecosystem for Production and Automotive Systems Stefano Garzarella, Dorinda Bassey, Albert Esteve "South Hall 1 B"
18:00		Managing IRQ mapping and deferred probing for ACPI static tables devices Lorenzo Pieralisi "Club C+D"
18:02				Closing / Final Q&A "Club H"

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