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Revision 3 as of 2011-12-31 00:40:26
KernelNewbies:
  • Linux_3.2

Summary:

TableOfContents()

1. Prominent features in Linux 3.2

== == == ==

2. Driver and architecture-specific changes

All the driver and architecture-specific changes can be found in the [http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.2_DriverArch Linux_3.2_DriverArch page]

3. Memory management

  • slub: per cpu cache for partial pages [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]

  • slub: update slabinfo tools to report per cpu partial list [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]

4. Networking

5. File systems

  • Ext3: remove deprecated oldalloc [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]

  • CIFS
    • uid/gid to SID mapping [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]

    • Add mount options for backup intent (try #6) [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]

    • Allow for larger rsize= options and change defaults [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]

  • JFFS2
    • Add compr=lzo and compr=zlib options [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]

    • Implement mount option parsing and compression overriding [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]

6. Block layer

7. Virtualization

8. Crypto

  • Add userspace configuration API [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]

  • blowfish: add x86_64 assembly implementation [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]

  • sha1: SSSE3 based SHA1 implementation for x86-64 [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]

  • twofish: add 3-way parallel x86_64 assembler implemention [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]

9. Security

  • TOMOYO
    • Add environment variable name restriction support. [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]

    • Add socket operation restriction support. [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]

    • Allow controlling generation of access granted logs for per [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]

    • Allow domain transition without execve(). [http://git.kernel.org/linus/ (commit)]

10. Tracing/profiling

11. Various core changes


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