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2022 Online

Call for Proposals

Presentation Slides

• André Almeida - State of futex2 (Info, Video)
• Paul McKenney - So you want to torture RCU? (Info, Video)
• Steven French - To the Cloud and Beyond, Accessing Files Remotely from Linux via SMB3.1.1 (Info, Video)
• Muhammad Falak R Wani - eBPF 101 (Info, Video)
• Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Gautham R. Shenoy - A mechanism to isolate CPU topology information in the Linux kernel - CPU Namespace (Info, Video)
• Alice Ferrazzi - Merging an existing framework into KernelCI (Info, Video)
• David Gow - Kernel Testing with KUnit: Bridging the Gap (Info, Video)
• Russell Currey - (Ab)using GitHub Actions for building & testing kernels (Info, Video)

2021 Canberra Online!

Call for Sessions

Presentation Slides

• André Almeida - futex2: An update (Info, Video)
• Nick Desaulniers - ClangBuiltLinux: What's Next? (Info, Video)
• Pia Eichinger - So you're a Linux kernel developer? Name all subsystems (Info, Video)
• David Gow - KUnit: Past, Present and Future (Info, Video)
• Tejun Heo - cgroup2 Resource Control strategies w/ resctl-demo (Info, Video)
• Nageswara Sastry - Linux Testing Made Better With Data (Info, Video)
• Alice Ferrazzi - GKernelCI v.2 new features and KernelCI compatibility (Info, Video)
• Michael Ellerman - How to write your first kernel selftest (Info, Video)

2020 Gold Coast

Call for Sessions

Presentation Slides

• Curtis Millar - Anatomy of a runtime: your contract with the kernel (Info, Video)
• Antonio Gomez - Mitigating hardware vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel (Info, Video)
• Bradley M. Kuhn - Introduction to Linux's License (Info, Video)
• Casey Schaufler - [PATCH v22] Landing a Large Series (Info, Video)
• Hasjim 'futaris' Williams - Upstreaming a Linux kernel driver (Info, Video)
• Thomas Schoebel-Theuer - Easy Geo-Redundancy with MARS (Info, Video)
• Aleksa Sarai - Designing Extensible Syscalls (Info, Video, Web)
• Russell Currey - Kernel hacking like it's 2020 (best viewed with mdp) (Info, Video)

2019 Christchurch

Call for Papers

Presentation Slides

• Vasant Hegde - Reliable Linux Kernel Crash Dump with Micro-Controller Assistance (Info, Video)
• Peter Chubb - Database as Filesystem (Info, Video)
• Casey Schaufler - Kernel Security is Cool Again (Info, Video)
• Joel Stanley - Clang Built Linux (Info, Video)
• Tycho Andersen - Forwarding syscalls to userspace (Info, Video)
• Christopher Lameter - MM101 introduction to memory management (Info, Video)
• Russell Currey - Patching through the snow: decentralised kernel CI on every patch (Info, Video)
• Keith Packard - Gen-Z on Linux: Supporting a New System Interconnect in Free Software (Info, Video)
• Matthew Wilcox - XArray: One Data Structure To Rule Them All (Info, Video)

2018 Sydney

Presentation Slides

• Paul E. McKenney - Decoding Those Inscrutable RCU CPU Stall Warnings (Info, Video)
• Matthew Wilcox - Replacing the Radix Tree (The design and implementation of the XArray) (Info, Video)
• Tobin Harding - Intro to Kernel Hacking - finding things to work on (Info, Video)
• Neil Armstrong - Mainline Linux on AmLogic SoCs (Info, Video, Web)
• Casey Schaufler - Look Out For What's In the Linux Security Pipeline (Info, Video)
• James Morris - Namespacing in SELinux (Info, Video, Web)