While the dmesg command can display the entire contents of the Linux kernel message buffer there are ways to have it choose just what you want to see. The dmesg command displays the content of the ...

The kernel this. The kernel that. People often refer to one operating system's kernel or another without truly knowing what it does or how it works or what it takes to make one. What does it take to ...

I'm hoping someone can help me explain (and ultimately fix) a NFS performance issue I am having with the 2.6 kernel. When performing large sequential writes from a 2.6 kernel NFS client, initial ...

Unfortunately for kernel developers, allocating memory in the kernel is not as simple as allocating memory in user space. A number of factors contribute to the complication, among them: The kernel is ...

The CPU and the GPU share access to some pages of memory. New Linux code helps the kernel keep track of memory holding data for the GPU. The management of video hardware has long been an area of ...

The final version of the latest Linux kernel, 2.6.17, was released to the public over the weekend. The kernel, dubbed the "crazed Snow-Weasel", includes a range of new features. This includes support ...

Here are the benefits and some caveats to running data-path applications in the user space. Discussed is Linux's UIO framework. Traditionally, packet-processing or data-path applications in Linux have ...

There are various types of kernel drivers; the first that come to mind are device drivers that provide a software interface to hardware devices like plug and play interfaces or filter drivers. These ...

Kernel-mode Hardware-enforced Stack Protection is a security feature introduced in Windows 11 22H2 that protects systems from various memory attacks, such as stack buffer overflows. Microsoft added ...