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May 26, 2025 · These kernel releases are not hosted at kernel.org and kernel developers can provide no support for them. It is easy to tell if you are running a distribution kernel.

The following manuals are written for users of the kernel — those who are trying to get it to work optimally on a given system and application developers seeking information on the kernel’s …

The maintainers of the various kernel subsystems — and also many kernel subsystem developers — expose their current state of development in source repositories.

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This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to application developers and system integrators doing analysis of the Linux kernel for safety critical applications.

The Linux kernel can act as a watchdog to detect both soft and hard lockups. A ‘softlockup’ is defined as a bug that causes the kernel to loop in kernel mode for more than 20 seconds (see …

Feb 6, 2022 · You can determine if your kernel currently has firmware loader support by looking for the CONFIG_FW_LOADER definition on your kernel’s .config file. In addition to having the …

This macro copies a single simple value from kernel space to user space. It supports simple types like char and int, but not larger data types like structures or arrays.

In addition to testing a running kernel, one can also analyze kernel source code directly (at compile time) using static analysis tools. The tools commonly used in the kernel allow one to …