The previous part was the first part of the chapter that describes the system call concepts in the Linux kernel. In the previous part we learned what a system call is in the Linux kernel, and in ...

There's an effort under way to reduce and ultimately remove all system call invocations from within kernel space. Dominik Brodowski was leading this effort, and he posted some patches to remove a lot ...

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A proof-of-concept program has been released to demonstrate a so-called monitoring "blind spot" in how some Linux antivirus and other endpoint protection tools use the kernel's io_uring interface.