Linux's New Way Of Informing User-Space Over Hung GPUs May Become More Useful

Last month I wrote about new code slated to be added for Linux 6.15 that would provide a cross-driver/standardized means of reporting to user-space over hung GPUs. For the likes of the AMD and Intel graphics drivers initially, user-space will be notified via this new wedged event when a GPU is hung in case user-space wants to take additional actions to try…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Extending-Linux-GPU-Wedge-Event

ARM Linux Kernel May Shift To Generic Entry Code: Less Assembly But Lower Performance

A pull request was sent out on Friday that could potentially land for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel to transition ARM's kernel entry code from some architecture-specific Assembly over to using the generic entry code path. It means more unification and transitioning some Assembly code over to C, but it also comes with some hits to performance...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM-Linux-Generic-Entry

Xen 4.20 Hypervisor Released With AMD Zen 5 Support, More Performance Optimizations

The Xen Project announced the availability today of the Xen 4.20 virtualization hypervisor...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xen-4.20-Released

Mold 2.37 Linker Preps For Intel APX

Rui Ueyama released Mold 2.37 today as the newest feature update to this high performance linker as an alternative to GNU Gold and LLVM LLD...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-2.37