Kernel developers discuss the future of system tracing tools, including KProbes and the Linux Trace Toolkit. Sometimes, things just do not go according to plan. Mathieu Desnoyers is the current ...

A new interface for implementing device drivers outside the kernel has one project saving about 5,000 lines of code. The concept of supporting user-space drivers has appeared on LWN a few times before ...

Mike Rapoport from IBM launched a bid to implement address space isolation in the Linux kernel. Address space isolation emanates from the idea of virtual memory—where the system maps all its hardware ...

I believe the best and worst thing about Linux is its hard distinction between kernel space and user space. Without that distinction, Linux never would have become the most leveraged operating system ...